Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Basildon

Test Strategy
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basildon requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basildon 9.68% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.68% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £684 - -
25th Percentile £687 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £691 - -
75th Percentile £696 - -
90th Percentile £698 - -
Essex median daily rate £662 - £490
% change year-on-year - - -9.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Basildon

Test Strategy falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31 38 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 100.00% 84.44% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 28
10th Percentile £368 £219 £262
25th Percentile £402 £271 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £300 £500
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -40.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £488 £338 £590
90th Percentile £617 £405 £597
Essex median daily rate £460 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +31.43% -30.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 21 2
10th Percentile £41.90 £29.17 £25.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.75 £30.63
Median hourly rate £71.00 £75.00 £40.84
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +83.65% -25.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £50.63
90th Percentile - - £55.50
Essex median hourly rate £18.87 £70.50 £67.59
% change year-on-year -73.23% +4.31% +22.89%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Basildon

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Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Test Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Test Strategy

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Hourly Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Test Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Test Strategy

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basildon 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 (66.67%) SAS
2 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) TestRail
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) R Developer
1 1 (33.33%) SAS Developer
1 1 (33.33%) SAS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Credit Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Scorecard
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Statistics
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA