Test Strategy Contracts in London

Test Strategy
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 180 251 262
Rank change year-on-year +71 +11 -30
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 241 269 413
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.36% 0.99% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.09% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 199 274
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
25th Percentile £454 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £671 £713 £650
90th Percentile £800 £746 £750
England median daily rate £525 £533 £520
% change year-on-year -1.50% +2.50% +11.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £58.94 £30.50
% change year-on-year +6.04% +93.24% -32.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in London

Test Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in London

Test Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +45 40 £525 -22.22% 4
West London +24 7 £420 - 1
East London - 7 £775 - 4
Test Strategy
England

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (3.32%) MTS
2 7 (2.90%) Confluence
2 7 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.83%) Apache
4 2 (0.83%) CMS
4 2 (0.83%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (2.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (6.22%) Oracle Applications
2 8 (3.32%) Aligne
2 8 (3.32%) Endur
2 8 (3.32%) EuroRunner
3 7 (2.90%) Loan IQ
4 5 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (1.66%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (1.24%) Oracle AGIS
6 3 (1.24%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (1.24%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (1.24%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (1.24%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (1.24%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.83%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payroll
8 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.41%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 63 (26.14%) Azure
2 36 (14.94%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (9.54%) AWS
3 23 (9.54%) Power Platform
4 20 (8.30%) Dynamics 365
5 16 (6.64%) Azure API Management
5 16 (6.64%) Azure Logic Apps
5 16 (6.64%) OCI
6 10 (4.15%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 9 (3.73%) Oracle CX
8 8 (3.32%) SaaS
9 6 (2.49%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (2.49%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.49%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.07%) GCP
11 4 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.66%) BrowserStack
11 4 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.66%) IaaS
11 4 (1.66%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.24%) Internet
1 3 (1.24%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.83%) HTTP
3 1 (0.41%) Firewall
3 1 (0.41%) Network Security
3 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.41%) WAN
3 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.71%) Power BI
2 15 (6.22%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (3.32%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.90%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.66%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.66%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.24%) MySQL
8 2 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.83%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.83%) Looker
8 2 (0.83%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.83%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.83%) Tableau
9 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.41%) HDInsight
9 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 31 (12.86%) Selenium
2 23 (9.54%) JIRA
3 22 (9.13%) Git
3 22 (9.13%) SpecFlow
4 21 (8.71%) Postman
5 18 (7.47%) Cucumber
6 17 (7.05%) JMeter
6 17 (7.05%) LoadRunner
7 16 (6.64%) Appium
8 15 (6.22%) JUnit
8 15 (6.22%) WebDriver
9 13 (5.39%) REST Assured
10 11 (4.56%) TestNG
10 11 (4.56%) TestRail
11 10 (4.15%) eggPlant
11 10 (4.15%) SoapUI
11 10 (4.15%) SOAtest
12 9 (3.73%) Gatling
13 8 (3.32%) Visual Studio
14 7 (2.90%) NeoLoad
General
1 79 (32.78%) Finance
2 67 (27.80%) Social Skills
3 24 (9.96%) Banking
4 15 (6.22%) Investment Banking
4 15 (6.22%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.98%) Back Office
6 12 (4.98%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.56%) Front Office
8 9 (3.73%) Legal
9 8 (3.32%) Retail
10 5 (2.07%) General Ledger
10 5 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.66%) Law
11 4 (1.66%) Marketing
11 4 (1.66%) Prime Brokerage
11 4 (1.66%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
12 3 (1.24%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.24%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (27.80%) Lead
2 40 (16.60%) Test Manager
3 31 (12.86%) Test Leader
4 27 (11.20%) Analyst
5 25 (10.37%) Senior
6 20 (8.30%) Tester
7 12 (4.98%) Business Analyst
7 12 (4.98%) Consultant
8 11 (4.56%) Project Manager
9 10 (4.15%) Test Analyst
10 9 (3.73%) Architect
10 9 (3.73%) Test Engineer
11 8 (3.32%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (3.32%) Senior Manager
12 7 (2.90%) Automation Tester
12 7 (2.90%) QA Leader
13 6 (2.49%) Automation Engineer
13 6 (2.49%) Developer
13 6 (2.49%) Performance Test Leader
13 6 (2.49%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.54%) XML
2 20 (8.30%) .NET
3 14 (5.81%) REST
4 13 (5.39%) .NET Framework
5 8 (3.32%) Playwright
6 4 (1.66%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.66%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.66%) JSON
7 3 (1.24%) Gherkin
7 3 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.24%) React
7 3 (1.24%) React Native
8 2 (0.83%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.83%) FHIR
8 2 (0.83%) Middleware
8 2 (0.83%) SOAP
8 2 (0.83%) SwiftUI
8 2 (0.83%) UIKit
8 2 (0.83%) Web Services
9 1 (0.41%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.56%) Equities
1 11 (4.56%) Hedge funds
2 9 (3.73%) Market Risk
2 9 (3.73%) Mobile App
3 8 (3.32%) Renewable Energy
3 8 (3.32%) Solar Panel
4 6 (2.49%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.07%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.66%) Derivative
7 3 (1.24%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.24%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.24%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.24%) Wiki
8 2 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.83%) FMCG
8 2 (0.83%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.41%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.90%) Windows
2 6 (2.49%) Linux
3 4 (1.66%) Android
4 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.83%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (37.34%) Test Automation
2 87 (36.10%) Agile
3 49 (20.33%) DevOps
3 49 (20.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 46 (19.09%) CI/CD
5 37 (15.35%) System Integration Testing
6 35 (14.52%) Software Testing
7 33 (13.69%) Performance Testing
7 33 (13.69%) Test Scripting
8 32 (13.28%) Migration
9 29 (12.03%) Mentoring
10 27 (11.20%) Continuous Integration
10 27 (11.20%) Project Management
10 27 (11.20%) Test Management
11 25 (10.37%) Data Transformation
12 24 (9.96%) BDD
12 24 (9.96%) SDLC
13 23 (9.54%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (9.54%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 51 (21.16%) C#
2 32 (13.28%) SQL
3 26 (10.79%) Java
4 19 (7.88%) Python
5 11 (4.56%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.90%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.24%) C
7 3 (1.24%) C++
8 2 (0.83%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.83%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.83%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.83%) R
8 2 (0.83%) Swift
Qualifications
1 31 (12.86%) Degree
2 24 (9.96%) Security Cleared
3 23 (9.54%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.22%) ISTQB
4 15 (6.22%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.07%) ISEB
5 5 (2.07%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.83%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.41%) CCA
8 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) PgMP
8 1 (0.41%) PhD
8 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.41%) PMP
8 1 (0.41%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (33.61%) QA
2 9 (3.73%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.32%) PMO
4 4 (1.66%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.66%) SLA
5 2 (0.83%) HL7
5 2 (0.83%) WCAG
6 1 (0.41%) EMIR
6 1 (0.41%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) IFRS
6 1 (0.41%) MiFID
6 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (1.66%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.66%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.24%) Kibana
3 1 (0.41%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.41%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (11.20%) Oracle
2 26 (10.79%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.39%) SAP
4 9 (3.73%) Splunk
5 5 (2.07%) Google
5 5 (2.07%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.66%) Adobe
6 4 (1.66%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (1.66%) HP
6 4 (1.66%) iManage
6 4 (1.66%) Intapp
6 4 (1.66%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.66%) Qualtrics
7 3 (1.24%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.24%) IBM
7 3 (1.24%) Okta
7 3 (1.24%) Ping Identity
7 3 (1.24%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.83%) Apple
9 1 (0.41%) Cognizant