Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Test Strategy
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 29 37
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.71% 0.73% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.81% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 £900 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £910 £563
Median % change year-on-year -50.55% +61.78% +125.00%
75th Percentile £463 £920 £569
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £641 £830 £563
% change year-on-year -22.77% +47.56% -6.25%

All Process & 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 248 123 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 88.26% 89.78% 87.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 70 151
10th Percentile £401 £346 £325
25th Percentile £413 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +7.42%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £560
90th Percentile £638 £704 £625
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £496
% change year-on-year -5.00% +0.76% -0.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 30
10th Percentile £25.15 £20.93 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £28.50 £15.39
Median hourly rate £68.21 £36.14 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.74% +68.09% -60.66%
75th Percentile £73.46 £65.08 £32.90
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.80 £65.75
East of England median hourly rate £20.23 £40.00 £30.48
% change year-on-year -49.43% +31.26% +24.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Strategy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SAS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Automotive
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scorecard
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) R
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) New Relic