Test Strategy Contracts in England

Test Strategy
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Test Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Strategy over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 205 232 218
Rank change year-on-year +27 -14 -21
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 419 605 942
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.13% 1.20% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.33% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 433 619
10th Percentile £358 £400 £384
25th Percentile £415 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +2.50% +11.71%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £588
90th Percentile £775 £730 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £518
% change year-on-year - +1.35% +11.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 6
10th Percentile £56.25 - £20.88
25th Percentile £58.13 £39.68 £25.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £58.94 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.04% +93.24% -32.22%
75th Percentile £68.13 £62.55 £55.36
90th Percentile £70.75 £80.51 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £58.94 £26.00
% change year-on-year +18.77% +126.68% -42.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Test Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Test Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in England

Test Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in England.

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in England

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in England

Test Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in England.

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Strategy in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Strategy in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +71 241 £550 - 52
South East -4 41 £463 -2.63% 29
East of England +26 40 £531 -3.41% 14
Midlands -39 37 £400 -25.93% 20
North of England -16 31 £450 -14.29% 22
West Midlands -35 28 £379 -29.81% 16
South West +20 23 £562 +9.75% 13
North West -3 15 £450 +5.88% 13
Yorkshire -7 14 £463 -13.95% 6
East Midlands +16 9 £422 -29.75% 4
North East +17 2 £408 +1.88% 3
Test Strategy
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Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (2.15%) Confluence
1 9 (2.15%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.91%) MTS
3 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.95%) Apache
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.48%) CMS
5 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.24%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.48%) Maya
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.58%) Oracle Applications
2 8 (1.91%) Aligne
2 8 (1.91%) Endur
2 8 (1.91%) EuroRunner
2 8 (1.91%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (1.43%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (1.19%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (1.19%) Oracle Cash Management
5 5 (1.19%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (1.19%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.95%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.72%) Oracle AGIS
8 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.48%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle Payroll
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.24%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 95 (22.67%) Azure
2 48 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (7.40%) AWS
4 30 (7.16%) Power Platform
5 26 (6.21%) Dynamics 365
6 20 (4.77%) OCI
7 16 (3.82%) Azure API Management
7 16 (3.82%) Azure Logic Apps
8 11 (2.63%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 9 (2.15%) Oracle CX
9 9 (2.15%) SaaS
10 6 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (1.43%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.43%) PowerApps
10 6 (1.43%) Serverless
11 5 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.19%) GCP
11 5 (1.19%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.43%) HTTP
2 3 (0.72%) Internet
2 3 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.48%) SAN
4 1 (0.24%) Firewall
4 1 (0.24%) Network Security
4 1 (0.24%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.24%) WAN
4 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.44%) Power BI
2 18 (4.30%) MySQL
3 16 (3.82%) Oracle Reports
4 10 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (2.39%) SQL Server
5 9 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.67%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.19%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.19%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.95%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.95%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.72%) Big Data
9 3 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (10.50%) Git
1 44 (10.50%) JIRA
1 44 (10.50%) Selenium
2 29 (6.92%) Cucumber
3 28 (6.68%) Postman
4 24 (5.73%) JMeter
5 22 (5.25%) SpecFlow
6 19 (4.53%) JUnit
6 19 (4.53%) WebDriver
7 17 (4.06%) LoadRunner
8 16 (3.82%) Appium
9 15 (3.58%) REST Assured
10 13 (3.10%) Gatling
10 13 (3.10%) Jenkins
10 13 (3.10%) TestNG
11 12 (2.86%) TestRail
11 12 (2.86%) Visual Studio
12 11 (2.63%) SoapUI
13 10 (2.39%) eggPlant
13 10 (2.39%) SOAtest
General
1 137 (32.70%) Social Skills
2 108 (25.78%) Finance
3 36 (8.59%) Manufacturing
4 34 (8.11%) Electronics
5 31 (7.40%) Aerospace
6 30 (7.16%) Public Sector
7 27 (6.44%) Banking
8 22 (5.25%) Presentation Skills
9 21 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
10 15 (3.58%) Investment Banking
11 13 (3.10%) Marketing
12 12 (2.86%) Back Office
13 11 (2.63%) Front Office
14 10 (2.39%) Legal
14 10 (2.39%) Retail
15 8 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (1.67%) Telecoms
17 6 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (1.19%) General Ledger
18 5 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (19.81%) Lead
2 74 (17.66%) Test Manager
3 52 (12.41%) Architect
4 49 (11.69%) Senior
5 43 (10.26%) Test Leader
6 41 (9.79%) Analyst
7 37 (8.83%) Test Architect
8 29 (6.92%) Tester
9 24 (5.73%) Developer
10 23 (5.49%) Test Engineer
11 21 (5.01%) Test Analyst
12 14 (3.34%) Project Manager
13 13 (3.10%) Automation Tester
13 13 (3.10%) Business Analyst
14 12 (2.86%) Consultant
14 12 (2.86%) Senior Test Engineer
15 10 (2.39%) ABAP Developer
15 10 (2.39%) SAP Developer
16 8 (1.91%) QA Analyst
16 8 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.21%) .NET
1 26 (6.21%) XML
2 17 (4.06%) REST
3 13 (3.10%) .NET Framework
4 11 (2.63%) Playwright
5 10 (2.39%) Web Dynpro
6 9 (2.15%) AngularJS
6 9 (2.15%) Web Services
7 7 (1.67%) Gherkin
7 7 (1.67%) GraphQL
7 7 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (1.43%) JSON
8 6 (1.43%) React
9 4 (0.95%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (0.95%) Kafka
10 3 (0.72%) CSS
10 3 (0.72%) HTML
10 3 (0.72%) Middleware
10 3 (0.72%) Node.js
10 3 (0.72%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.40%) Analogue Electronics
2 11 (2.63%) Equities
2 11 (2.63%) Hedge funds
2 11 (2.63%) Product Ownership
3 9 (2.15%) Market Risk
3 9 (2.15%) Mobile App
4 8 (1.91%) Renewable Energy
4 8 (1.91%) Solar Panel
5 7 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.19%) Algorithms
7 4 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (0.95%) Derivative
8 3 (0.72%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.72%) FMCG
8 3 (0.72%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.72%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.72%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.72%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.77%) Windows
2 16 (3.82%) Unix
3 13 (3.10%) Linux
4 5 (1.19%) Android
5 4 (0.95%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (33.89%) Agile
2 134 (31.98%) Test Automation
3 75 (17.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 75 (17.90%) User Acceptance Testing
4 68 (16.23%) Project Management
5 67 (15.99%) DevOps
6 56 (13.37%) Migration
7 54 (12.89%) CI/CD
8 51 (12.17%) Software Testing
9 49 (11.69%) Performance Testing
9 49 (11.69%) Test Management
9 49 (11.69%) Test Scripting
10 48 (11.46%) System Integration Testing
11 44 (10.50%) Scenario Testing
11 44 (10.50%) Scrum
12 43 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
12 43 (10.26%) Process Improvement
13 42 (10.02%) Problem-Solving
14 37 (8.83%) Functional Testing
15 36 (8.59%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 56 (13.37%) C#
2 51 (12.17%) SQL
3 42 (10.02%) Java
4 24 (5.73%) Python
5 16 (3.82%) TypeScript
6 12 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 10 (2.39%) ABAP
8 6 (1.43%) VB
9 5 (1.19%) Scala
9 5 (1.19%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.95%) Groovy
10 4 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.95%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.95%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.72%) C
11 3 (0.72%) C++
11 3 (0.72%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.72%) PHP
11 3 (0.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 92 (21.96%) Security Cleared
2 89 (21.24%) SC Cleared
3 44 (10.50%) Degree
4 35 (8.35%) ISTQB
5 25 (5.97%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 8 (1.91%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.67%) ISEB
8 6 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 4 (0.95%) CISM
10 4 (0.95%) CISSP
10 4 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.48%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.24%) CCA
13 1 (0.24%) PhD
13 1 (0.24%) PMP
13 1 (0.24%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (27.68%) QA
2 12 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.15%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.91%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.91%) PMO
5 5 (1.19%) SLA
6 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.72%) HL7
8 2 (0.48%) WCAG
9 1 (0.24%) EMIR
9 1 (0.24%) GDPR
9 1 (0.24%) IFRS
9 1 (0.24%) MiFID
9 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (1.91%) Docker
2 5 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.72%) vSphere
4 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (2.15%) Grafana
2 5 (1.19%) HP ALM
3 4 (0.95%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.72%) HP Quality Center
4 3 (0.72%) Kibana
5 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.24%) vRealize
Vendors
1 43 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.35%) Oracle
3 31 (7.40%) SAP
4 14 (3.34%) Adobe
4 14 (3.34%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.39%) Splunk
6 9 (2.15%) Denodo
6 9 (2.15%) Talend
7 8 (1.91%) HP
8 7 (1.67%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.19%) Google
10 4 (0.95%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (0.95%) iManage
10 4 (0.95%) Intapp
10 4 (0.95%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.95%) Qualtrics
10 4 (0.95%) VMware
11 3 (0.72%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.72%) Okta
11 3 (0.72%) Ping Identity