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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 229 218
Rank change year-on-year +29 -11 -23
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 435 586 946
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.18% 1.17% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.30% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 419 627
10th Percentile £358 £388 £385
25th Percentile £414 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year - +0.48% +10.00%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £600
90th Percentile £756 £730 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £517 £520
% change year-on-year +1.65% -0.67% +10.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 6
10th Percentile £60.75 £39.68 £20.88
25th Percentile £61.88 £45.53 £25.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.55 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.92% +105.08% -32.22%
75th Percentile £69.38 - £55.36
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.50 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.55 £26.00
% change year-on-year +11.91% +140.58% -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 31,929 45,052 64,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.19% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,948 31,615 45,896
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% +8.04%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,590 1,753
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

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 5 May 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

Test Strategy
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 5 May 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 +85 243 £550 - 71
South East -6 49 £473 - 25
East of England +30 41 £531 +1.19% 12
Midlands -24 39 £390 -27.51% 18
North of England -10 32 £450 -14.29% 21
West Midlands -32 30 £359 -33.40% 13
South West +22 24 £562 +9.75% 15
North West +13 15 £450 +5.88% 10
Yorkshire -6 15 £500 -9.05% 7
East Midlands +17 9 £422 -29.75% 5
North East +14 2 £408 +1.88% 4
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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 (2.07%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.84%) Confluence
2 8 (1.84%) MTS
3 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.92%) Apache
5 3 (0.69%) CMS
5 3 (0.69%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.46%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.23%) IIS
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.46%) Maya
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.45%) Oracle Applications
2 8 (1.84%) Aligne
2 8 (1.84%) Endur
2 8 (1.84%) EuroRunner
2 8 (1.84%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.61%) Oracle General Ledger
4 6 (1.38%) Oracle Assets
4 6 (1.38%) Oracle Cash Management
4 6 (1.38%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.38%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (1.15%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.69%) Oracle AGIS
7 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.46%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle Payroll
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 91 (20.92%) Azure
2 46 (10.57%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (6.90%) AWS
4 29 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 25 (5.75%) Dynamics 365
6 20 (4.60%) OCI
7 16 (3.68%) Azure API Management
7 16 (3.68%) Azure Logic Apps
8 11 (2.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 10 (2.30%) SaaS
10 9 (2.07%) Oracle CX
11 6 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.38%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.38%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.38%) Serverless
11 6 (1.38%) Tricentis Tosca
12 5 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.15%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.38%) HTTP
2 3 (0.69%) Internet
2 3 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.46%) SAN
3 2 (0.46%) WAN
4 1 (0.23%) Firewall
4 1 (0.23%) Network Security
4 1 (0.23%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.98%) Power BI
2 22 (5.06%) MySQL
3 17 (3.91%) Oracle Reports
4 14 (3.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (2.30%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.61%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.15%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.15%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.92%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.92%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.69%) Big Data
10 3 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.46%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (11.26%) Git
2 45 (10.34%) Selenium
3 42 (9.66%) JIRA
4 31 (7.13%) Postman
5 29 (6.67%) Cucumber
6 25 (5.75%) JMeter
7 22 (5.06%) JUnit
7 22 (5.06%) SpecFlow
8 19 (4.37%) WebDriver
9 17 (3.91%) LoadRunner
10 16 (3.68%) Appium
10 16 (3.68%) REST Assured
11 14 (3.22%) TestNG
12 13 (2.99%) Gatling
12 13 (2.99%) Jenkins
12 13 (2.99%) TestRail
12 13 (2.99%) Visual Studio
13 11 (2.53%) SoapUI
14 10 (2.30%) eggPlant
14 10 (2.30%) SOAtest
General
1 142 (32.64%) Social Skills
2 110 (25.29%) Finance
3 37 (8.51%) Manufacturing
4 35 (8.05%) Electronics
5 31 (7.13%) Aerospace
6 30 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 27 (6.21%) Banking
8 23 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
9 22 (5.06%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (3.45%) Investment Banking
11 14 (3.22%) Back Office
12 13 (2.99%) Marketing
13 11 (2.53%) Front Office
13 11 (2.53%) Legal
14 10 (2.30%) Retail
15 8 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (1.61%) Telecoms
17 6 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (1.15%) General Ledger
18 5 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (19.08%) Lead
2 80 (18.39%) Test Manager
3 53 (12.18%) Architect
4 52 (11.95%) Senior
5 43 (9.89%) Analyst
6 42 (9.66%) Test Leader
7 39 (8.97%) Test Architect
8 29 (6.67%) Tester
9 27 (6.21%) Test Engineer
10 25 (5.75%) Developer
11 23 (5.29%) Test Analyst
12 14 (3.22%) Business Analyst
13 13 (2.99%) Automation Tester
13 13 (2.99%) Consultant
13 13 (2.99%) Project Manager
13 13 (2.99%) Senior Test Engineer
14 10 (2.30%) ABAP Developer
14 10 (2.30%) SAP Developer
14 10 (2.30%) Senior Analyst
14 10 (2.30%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.21%) .NET
2 26 (5.98%) XML
3 17 (3.91%) REST
4 16 (3.68%) Web Services
5 13 (2.99%) .NET Framework
6 12 (2.76%) Playwright
7 10 (2.30%) AngularJS
7 10 (2.30%) Web Dynpro
8 9 (2.07%) Gherkin
8 9 (2.07%) GraphQL
8 9 (2.07%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.61%) React
10 6 (1.38%) JSON
11 4 (0.92%) ActiveMQ
11 4 (0.92%) Kafka
12 3 (0.69%) CSS
12 3 (0.69%) HTML
12 3 (0.69%) Middleware
12 3 (0.69%) Node.js
12 3 (0.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.36%) Analogue Electronics
2 13 (2.99%) Product Ownership
3 11 (2.53%) Equities
3 11 (2.53%) Hedge funds
3 11 (2.53%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.07%) Market Risk
5 8 (1.84%) Renewable Energy
5 8 (1.84%) Solar Panel
6 7 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.61%) Life Science
6 7 (1.61%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.15%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.92%) Derivative
8 4 (0.92%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.69%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.69%) FMCG
9 3 (0.69%) NHS
9 3 (0.69%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.60%) Windows
2 16 (3.68%) Unix
3 13 (2.99%) Linux
4 7 (1.61%) Android
5 4 (0.92%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (36.78%) Agile
2 143 (32.87%) Test Automation
3 72 (16.55%) User Acceptance Testing
4 70 (16.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 66 (15.17%) Project Management
6 65 (14.94%) DevOps
7 63 (14.48%) Software Testing
8 58 (13.33%) CI/CD
8 58 (13.33%) Test Management
9 53 (12.18%) Migration
10 51 (11.72%) Continuous Integration
10 51 (11.72%) Scrum
11 50 (11.49%) Performance Testing
12 48 (11.03%) Test Scripting
13 47 (10.80%) Process Improvement
13 47 (10.80%) System Integration Testing
14 46 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
15 40 (9.20%) Scenario Testing
16 39 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
16 39 (8.97%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 56 (12.87%) C#
2 53 (12.18%) SQL
3 45 (10.34%) Java
4 25 (5.75%) Python
5 18 (4.14%) TypeScript
6 12 (2.76%) JavaScript
7 10 (2.30%) ABAP
8 6 (1.38%) VB
9 5 (1.15%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.15%) Scala
9 5 (1.15%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.92%) Groovy
10 4 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.92%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.92%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.69%) C
11 3 (0.69%) C++
11 3 (0.69%) PHP
11 3 (0.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 97 (22.30%) Security Cleared
2 95 (21.84%) SC Cleared
3 46 (10.57%) Degree
4 38 (8.74%) ISTQB
5 25 (5.75%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.84%) ISEB
6 8 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (0.92%) CISM
8 4 (0.92%) CISSP
8 4 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (0.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.46%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.23%) CCA
11 1 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.23%) PhD
11 1 (0.23%) PMP
11 1 (0.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (26.90%) QA
2 13 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.84%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.84%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.61%) HL7
4 7 (1.61%) PMO
5 5 (1.15%) SLA
6 4 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.46%) WCAG
8 1 (0.23%) EMIR
8 1 (0.23%) GDPR
8 1 (0.23%) IFRS
8 1 (0.23%) MiFID
8 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (2.07%) Docker
2 5 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.69%) vSphere
4 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (2.99%) Grafana
2 4 (0.92%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.69%) HP ALM
3 3 (0.69%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (0.69%) Kibana
4 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 43 (9.89%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.51%) Oracle
3 30 (6.90%) SAP
4 14 (3.22%) Adobe
5 13 (2.99%) Denodo
5 13 (2.99%) Talend
6 12 (2.76%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.30%) Splunk
8 7 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.38%) HP
10 5 (1.15%) Google
11 4 (0.92%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (0.92%) iManage
11 4 (0.92%) Intapp
11 4 (0.92%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.92%) Qualtrics
11 4 (0.92%) VMware
12 3 (0.69%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.69%) Okta
12 3 (0.69%) Ping Identity