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

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 239 259
Rank change year-on-year +50 +20 -32
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 227 256 416
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.30% 0.99% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.09% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 187 285
10th Percentile £375 £413 £408
25th Percentile £450 £458 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £664
90th Percentile £785 £740 £775
England median daily rate £525 £517 £525
% change year-on-year +1.65% -1.62% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.55 £30.50
% change year-on-year -4.08% +105.08% -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 15,495 23,478 35,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.88% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,110 16,936 26,017
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 270 417
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £38.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% +2.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.48
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.28 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

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

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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 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in London

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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 17 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
Central London +58 34 £525 -23.64% 2
West London +27 7 £420 - 1
East London - 5 £600 - 11
South London +4 1 £575 - 2
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 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (3.52%) MTS
2 7 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.64%) Confluence
4 3 (1.32%) CMS
4 3 (1.32%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.88%) Apache
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.20%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.44%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (3.52%) Aligne
1 8 (3.52%) Endur
1 8 (3.52%) EuroRunner
1 8 (3.52%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.32%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.88%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.44%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.44%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.44%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 55 (24.23%) Azure
2 33 (14.54%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (9.69%) AWS
4 19 (8.37%) Dynamics 365
4 19 (8.37%) Power Platform
5 16 (7.05%) Azure API Management
5 16 (7.05%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (3.96%) OCI
7 7 (3.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 6 (2.64%) Oracle CX
8 6 (2.64%) SaaS
8 6 (2.64%) Tricentis Tosca
9 5 (2.20%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.20%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.20%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.76%) BrowserStack
10 4 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.32%) PaaS
11 3 (1.32%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.88%) HTTP
2 2 (0.88%) Internet
3 1 (0.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.93%) Power BI
2 9 (3.96%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (3.52%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.08%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.76%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.76%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.32%) MySQL
8 2 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.88%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.44%) Big Data
9 1 (0.44%) HDInsight
9 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (14.54%) Selenium
2 25 (11.01%) Postman
3 22 (9.69%) Git
4 19 (8.37%) LoadRunner
4 19 (8.37%) SpecFlow
5 18 (7.93%) JIRA
5 18 (7.93%) JMeter
6 17 (7.49%) Appium
6 17 (7.49%) Cucumber
6 17 (7.49%) JUnit
7 16 (7.05%) WebDriver
8 13 (5.73%) REST Assured
8 13 (5.73%) TestNG
9 10 (4.41%) eggPlant
9 10 (4.41%) SoapUI
9 10 (4.41%) SOAtest
10 9 (3.96%) Visual Studio
11 8 (3.52%) Gatling
11 8 (3.52%) NeoLoad
11 8 (3.52%) TestRail
General
1 75 (33.04%) Finance
2 66 (29.07%) Social Skills
3 20 (8.81%) Banking
4 17 (7.49%) Back Office
5 16 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.05%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.73%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (5.29%) Legal
8 11 (4.85%) Front Office
9 10 (4.41%) Investment Banking
10 8 (3.52%) Retail
11 5 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.20%) Law
12 3 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.32%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.32%) Marketing
12 3 (1.32%) Prime Brokerage
12 3 (1.32%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.32%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
12 3 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (28.19%) Lead
2 37 (16.30%) Test Manager
3 31 (13.66%) Analyst
4 29 (12.78%) Test Leader
5 27 (11.89%) Senior
6 18 (7.93%) Tester
7 14 (6.17%) Test Analyst
8 13 (5.73%) Business Analyst
9 12 (5.29%) Consultant
10 11 (4.85%) Senior Analyst
11 10 (4.41%) Architect
11 10 (4.41%) Project Manager
12 9 (3.96%) Senior Test Analyst
12 9 (3.96%) Test Engineer
13 7 (3.08%) Automation Tester
13 7 (3.08%) Developer
13 7 (3.08%) Performance Test Leader
13 7 (3.08%) QA Leader
14 6 (2.64%) Automation Engineer
14 6 (2.64%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.13%) XML
2 20 (8.81%) .NET
3 13 (5.73%) .NET Framework
3 13 (5.73%) REST
4 7 (3.08%) Playwright
5 5 (2.20%) GraphQL
5 5 (2.20%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (1.76%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.76%) JSON
6 4 (1.76%) React
7 3 (1.32%) Middleware
7 3 (1.32%) React Native
7 3 (1.32%) Web Services
8 2 (0.88%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.88%) FHIR
8 2 (0.88%) Gherkin
8 2 (0.88%) SOAP
8 2 (0.88%) SwiftUI
8 2 (0.88%) UIKit
9 1 (0.44%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.29%) Mobile App
2 10 (4.41%) Hedge funds
3 9 (3.96%) Equities
3 9 (3.96%) Market Risk
4 8 (3.52%) Renewable Energy
4 8 (3.52%) Solar Panel
5 7 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.64%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.32%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.32%) Derivative
8 3 (1.32%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.32%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.32%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.32%) Wiki
9 2 (0.88%) FMCG
9 2 (0.88%) Life Science
9 2 (0.88%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.52%) Windows
2 7 (3.08%) Android
2 7 (3.08%) Linux
3 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.88%) Unix
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (41.41%) Agile
2 91 (40.09%) Test Automation
3 49 (21.59%) CI/CD
4 45 (19.82%) DevOps
5 43 (18.94%) Software Testing
6 37 (16.30%) Performance Testing
7 36 (15.86%) Continuous Integration
8 31 (13.66%) User Acceptance Testing
9 28 (12.33%) Mentoring
9 28 (12.33%) Test Management
10 27 (11.89%) Test Scripting
11 25 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (10.13%) Business Intelligence
12 23 (10.13%) Data Transformation
12 23 (10.13%) Functional Testing
12 23 (10.13%) Migration
12 23 (10.13%) System Integration Testing
13 22 (9.69%) BDD
13 22 (9.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (9.69%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (22.03%) C#
2 33 (14.54%) SQL
3 27 (11.89%) Java
4 18 (7.93%) Python
5 12 (5.29%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.08%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.20%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.32%) C
8 3 (1.32%) C++
9 2 (0.88%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.88%) Swift
10 1 (0.44%) ProC
Qualifications
1 26 (11.45%) Degree
2 25 (11.01%) Security Cleared
3 24 (10.57%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.17%) ISTQB
5 9 (3.96%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.64%) ISEB
7 5 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.44%) CCA
11 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.44%) PgMP
11 1 (0.44%) PhD
11 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.44%) PMP
11 1 (0.44%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (35.24%) QA
2 8 (3.52%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.64%) PMO
4 3 (1.32%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.32%) HL7
5 2 (0.88%) SLA
5 2 (0.88%) WCAG
6 1 (0.44%) EMIR
6 1 (0.44%) GDPR
6 1 (0.44%) IFRS
6 1 (0.44%) MiFID
6 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (1.76%) Docker
2 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.76%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.32%) Kibana
3 1 (0.44%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.69%) Oracle
3 13 (5.73%) SAP
4 8 (3.52%) Splunk
5 5 (2.20%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (2.20%) HP
5 5 (2.20%) iManage
5 5 (2.20%) Intapp
5 5 (2.20%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.20%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.76%) IBM
7 3 (1.32%) Adobe
7 3 (1.32%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.32%) Google
7 3 (1.32%) Qualtrics
8 2 (0.88%) Apple
8 2 (0.88%) Okta
8 2 (0.88%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.88%) VMware
9 1 (0.44%) Salesforce