Test Strategy Contracts in the North of England

Test Strategy
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 143 157
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 -54
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 33 74 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.70% 1.28% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.41% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 50 61
10th Percentile £400 £400 £327
25th Percentile £425 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +9.38% +12.94%
75th Percentile £517 £600 £538
90th Percentile £575 £704 £600
England median daily rate £525 £525 £523
% change year-on-year - +0.48% +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 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 - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.55 £30.50
% change year-on-year +3.92% +105.08% -32.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,052 5,254 6,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.81% 90.62% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,482 3,656 4,652
10th Percentile £300 £303 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 205 259
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.19 £12.86
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.00 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -38.90% +55.20% +3.15%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £50.91
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 3 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
Yorkshire -3 16 £484 -12.09% 7
North West +3 15 £450 +5.88% 7
North East +15 2 £408 +1.88% 4
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) SAP ERP
1 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.12%) Azure
1 4 (12.12%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (9.09%) AWS
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.06%) MySQL
3 1 (3.03%) Power BI
3 1 (3.03%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Cucumber
1 7 (21.21%) JMeter
2 6 (18.18%) JIRA
2 6 (18.18%) Selenium
3 5 (15.15%) Git
4 4 (12.12%) Gatling
4 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
4 4 (12.12%) JUnit
4 4 (12.12%) WebDriver
5 3 (9.09%) Cypress.io
6 2 (6.06%) Postman
7 1 (3.03%) GoCD
7 1 (3.03%) REST Assured
General
1 8 (24.24%) Finance
2 3 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.06%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Test Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Analyst
3 5 (15.15%) Lead
3 5 (15.15%) Test Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Java Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Senior
4 4 (12.12%) Senior Test Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Software Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Test Manager
5 3 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) QA Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) QA Test Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Test Leader
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Functional Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Functional Test Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) SAP Manager
6 2 (6.06%) SAP Test Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Tester
6 2 (6.06%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) Gherkin
2 4 (12.12%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (12.12%) Kafka
2 4 (12.12%) Web Services
3 2 (6.06%) React
4 1 (3.03%) .NET
4 1 (3.03%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.03%) Dagger
4 1 (3.03%) Jest
4 1 (3.03%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (3.03%) Node.js
4 1 (3.03%) Retrofit
4 1 (3.03%) RxJava
4 1 (3.03%) Spring
4 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.06%) Cyberattack
2 2 (6.06%) Insider Threat
2 2 (6.06%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Linux
1 4 (12.12%) Mac OS X
1 4 (12.12%) Unix
2 1 (3.03%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (57.58%) Test Automation
2 18 (54.55%) Agile
3 8 (24.24%) Analytics
3 8 (24.24%) Test Planning
4 7 (21.21%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (21.21%) Defect Tracking
4 7 (21.21%) TDD
5 6 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
5 6 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (18.18%) Functional Testing
5 6 (18.18%) Scrum
5 6 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 6 (18.18%) User Stories
6 5 (15.15%) Data Security
6 5 (15.15%) Design Patterns
6 5 (15.15%) Test Scripting
7 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.12%) Manual Testing
7 4 (12.12%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 4 (12.12%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) Java
2 4 (12.12%) C#
2 4 (12.12%) Groovy
2 4 (12.12%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (12.12%) Scala
2 4 (12.12%) Shell Script
3 3 (9.09%) PHP
4 1 (3.03%) Kotlin
4 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) CISM
2 4 (12.12%) CISSP
2 4 (12.12%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (6.06%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (45.45%) QA
2 4 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.03%) SLA
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) SAP
3 1 (3.03%) Micro Focus
3 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.03%) Wind River