Test Strategy Contracts in Manchester

Test Strategy
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 87 90 119
Rank change year-on-year +3 +29 -36
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 14 27 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.91% 1.42% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.55% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 15
10th Percentile £391 £367 £325
25th Percentile £425 £401 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £503 £563 £544
90th Percentile £524 £615 £583
North West median daily rate £450 £425 £488
% change year-on-year +5.88% -12.82% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £39.68 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £42.37 -
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £45.05 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £42.37 -
% change year-on-year +65.23% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,335 1,743 2,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.08% 91.88% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 1,278 1,823
10th Percentile £313 £315 £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.46% +8.44%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £575
90th Percentile £694 £658 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 61 50
10th Percentile £12.42 £14.65 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £37.30 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.15% +144.59% -4.69%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £23.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 2 (14.29%) Gatling
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) JMeter
2 2 (14.29%) Selenium
2 2 (14.29%) WebDriver
3 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 1 (7.14%) GoCD
3 1 (7.14%) JUnit
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Java Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Java Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Test Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) PHP Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Android Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (14.29%) Kafka
1 2 (14.29%) React
1 2 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) Dagger
2 1 (7.14%) Jest
2 1 (7.14%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) Retrofit
2 1 (7.14%) RxJava
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cyberattack
1 2 (14.29%) Insider Threat
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 2 (14.29%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Mac OS X
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) Data Security
2 5 (35.71%) Design Patterns
3 4 (28.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 4 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Business Continuity
4 3 (21.43%) Coaching
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
4 3 (21.43%) Runbook
5 2 (14.29%) Advanced Persistent Threat
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) API Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (14.29%) Prototyping
5 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (21.43%) PHP
4 2 (14.29%) Groovy
4 2 (14.29%) Scala
4 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.14%) C#
5 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
5 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CISM
1 4 (28.57%) CISSP
1 4 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (7.14%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce