Test Strategy Contracts in Bedfordshire

Test Strategy
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Test Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 34 29
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.92% 0.41% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 0.47% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £630 - £190
25th Percentile £675 - £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £755 £550 £250
Median % change year-on-year +37.27% +120.00% -47.92%
75th Percentile £840 - £319
90th Percentile £888 - £360
East of England median daily rate £750 £531 £550
% change year-on-year +41.18% -3.41% +7.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 147 213 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 94.23% 86.59% 91.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 123 120
10th Percentile £463 £303 £207
25th Percentile £500 £406 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +10.53% -3.06%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £626
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 35 6
10th Percentile £20.26 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £28.21 £15.39 £29.31
Median hourly rate £60.75 £21.50 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +182.56% -66.27% +15.91%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.33 £87.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £65.75 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Bedfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Bedfordshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Bedfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in Bedfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Luton - 2 £600 - 7
Test Strategy
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 2 (66.67%) SAP ERP
1 2 (66.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JMeter
2 2 (66.67%) LoadRunner
2 2 (66.67%) NeoLoad
General
1 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
1 3 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) FMCG
1 2 (66.67%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Management
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) Matrix Management
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GxP
1 2 (66.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Ariba
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce