Test Strategy Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 201 179 166
Rank change year-on-year -22 -13 -7
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 214 315 477
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.04% 1.34% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.50% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 233 316
10th Percentile £358 £374 £363
25th Percentile £412 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £497
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +0.60% +11.06%
75th Percentile £570 £550 £540
90th Percentile £628 £625 £594
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £518
% change year-on-year +2.44% -1.06% +9.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 10
10th Percentile £60.75 £45.53 £16.93
25th Percentile £61.88 £54.16 £17.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.55 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.92% +229.21% -57.78%
75th Percentile £69.38 - £38.75
90th Percentile £71.25 - £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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East -14 44 £506 +14.60% 22
East of England +24 40 £531 +1.19% 8
Midlands -13 39 £390 -27.51% 17
North of England -9 33 £463 -11.90% 21
West Midlands -28 30 £359 -33.27% 11
South West +16 25 £563 +9.76% 15
Scotland +30 20 £539 +21.01% 7
North West +4 15 £450 +5.88% 10
Yorkshire -6 15 £517 -6.00% 7
Wales +25 11 £535 -14.40% 3
East Midlands +22 9 £422 -29.75% 6
North East +11 3 £408 +1.88% 4
Isle of Man - 2 - -
Test Strategy
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Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (0.93%) Apache
1 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.47%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.93%) Maya
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (1.40%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (1.40%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (1.40%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.40%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.93%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.47%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.47%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (15.89%) Azure
2 15 (7.01%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (3.74%) AWS
4 6 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (2.80%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.87%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (1.87%) OCI
5 4 (1.87%) SaaS
6 3 (1.40%) GitHub
6 3 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (0.93%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (0.93%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.93%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.93%) IaaS
7 2 (0.93%) PaaS
7 2 (0.93%) Serverless
8 1 (0.47%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.87%) HTTP
2 2 (0.93%) SAN
3 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.41%) MySQL
2 12 (5.61%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (2.34%) Big Data
3 5 (2.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.87%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.87%) Power BI
4 4 (1.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.93%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.93%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.47%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 29 (13.55%) Git
2 27 (12.62%) JIRA
3 18 (8.41%) Selenium
4 13 (6.07%) Cucumber
5 12 (5.61%) Postman
6 11 (5.14%) Jenkins
7 10 (4.67%) JMeter
8 9 (4.21%) Cypress.io
9 7 (3.27%) JUnit
9 7 (3.27%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (3.27%) Visual Studio
10 6 (2.80%) NUnit
10 6 (2.80%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.87%) Gatling
11 4 (1.87%) REST Assured
12 3 (1.40%) LoadRunner
12 3 (1.40%) Maven
13 2 (0.93%) Subversion
13 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.93%) TestNG
General
1 76 (35.51%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.22%) Finance
3 35 (16.36%) Manufacturing
4 33 (15.42%) Electronics
5 31 (14.49%) Aerospace
6 24 (11.21%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (4.67%) Banking
9 9 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (3.74%) Marketing
11 6 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.87%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.40%) Retail
14 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.47%) Automotive
15 1 (0.47%) Law
15 1 (0.47%) Legal
15 1 (0.47%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 46 (21.50%) Test Manager
2 44 (20.56%) Architect
3 38 (17.76%) Test Architect
4 29 (13.55%) Senior
5 24 (11.21%) Analyst
6 23 (10.75%) Lead
7 20 (9.35%) Test Engineer
8 15 (7.01%) Test Analyst
9 14 (6.54%) Test Leader
10 13 (6.07%) Senior Test Engineer
11 12 (5.61%) Developer
12 9 (4.21%) Tester
13 7 (3.27%) Automation Tester
13 7 (3.27%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 7 (3.27%) Systems Engineer
13 7 (3.27%) Test Automation Engineer
14 6 (2.80%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
15 5 (2.34%) Integration Engineer
15 5 (2.34%) Senior Architect
15 5 (2.34%) Senior Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.01%) Web Services
2 10 (4.67%) .NET
3 7 (3.27%) AngularJS
3 7 (3.27%) Gherkin
3 7 (3.27%) Playwright
4 5 (2.34%) GraphQL
5 4 (1.87%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (1.87%) Kafka
5 4 (1.87%) Web Dynpro
5 4 (1.87%) XML
6 3 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.40%) React
6 3 (1.40%) REST
7 2 (0.93%) CSS
7 2 (0.93%) HTML
7 2 (0.93%) Jest
7 2 (0.93%) JSON
7 2 (0.93%) Node.js
8 1 (0.47%) Middleware
8 1 (0.47%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.95%) Analogue Electronics
2 13 (6.07%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.74%) LIMS
3 8 (3.74%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.80%) Life Science
5 5 (2.34%) NHS
6 3 (1.40%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.93%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.93%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.93%) Equities
7 2 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.93%) Insider Threat
7 2 (0.93%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.93%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.47%) FMCG
8 1 (0.47%) PMI
8 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.01%) Windows
2 13 (6.07%) Unix
3 7 (3.27%) Linux
4 4 (1.87%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.47%) Android
6 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (30.37%) Agile
1 65 (30.37%) Test Automation
2 52 (24.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 45 (21.03%) Project Management
4 38 (17.76%) Test Management
5 37 (17.29%) Scrum
6 33 (15.42%) Software Testing
7 32 (14.95%) User Acceptance Testing
8 28 (13.08%) Process Improvement
9 27 (12.62%) Scenario Testing
10 26 (12.15%) Test Scripting
11 25 (11.68%) Analytics
12 23 (10.75%) Non-Functional Testing
12 23 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (10.75%) Test Planning
13 22 (10.28%) DevOps
14 21 (9.81%) Migration
15 20 (9.35%) Manual Testing
15 20 (9.35%) Performance Testing
15 20 (9.35%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.21%) SQL
2 21 (9.81%) Java
3 8 (3.74%) JavaScript
3 8 (3.74%) TypeScript
4 7 (3.27%) Shell Script
5 6 (2.80%) VB
6 5 (2.34%) C#
6 5 (2.34%) Python
6 5 (2.34%) Scala
6 5 (2.34%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.87%) ABAP
7 4 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.87%) Groovy
7 4 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (1.87%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.40%) PHP
9 2 (0.93%) C++
9 2 (0.93%) VBA
9 2 (0.93%) VBScript
10 1 (0.47%) ProC
Qualifications
1 66 (30.84%) Security Cleared
2 65 (30.37%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.55%) ISTQB
4 20 (9.35%) Degree
5 12 (5.61%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.27%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.80%) ISEB
8 5 (2.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (1.87%) CISM
9 4 (1.87%) CISSP
9 4 (1.87%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.93%) ISEB Practitioner
11 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (20.56%) QA
2 7 (3.27%) PCI DSS
3 6 (2.80%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.34%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.34%) HL7
5 4 (1.87%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.93%) PMO
7 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (2.80%) Docker
2 3 (1.40%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.40%) vSphere
3 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.47%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 12 (5.61%) Grafana
2 4 (1.87%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.93%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.47%) vRealize
Vendors
1 20 (9.35%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.61%) Denodo
2 12 (5.61%) SAP
2 12 (5.61%) Talend
3 11 (5.14%) Oracle
4 7 (3.27%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.80%) InterSystems
6 4 (1.87%) Adobe
6 4 (1.87%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.40%) VMware
8 2 (0.93%) HP
9 1 (0.47%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.47%) Databricks
9 1 (0.47%) Dell
9 1 (0.47%) FIS
9 1 (0.47%) Google
9 1 (0.47%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.47%) ScienceLogic
9 1 (0.47%) Workday