Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Bracknell

Test Strategy
Berkshire > Bracknell

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bracknell requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 18 26
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bracknell 4.96% 1.18% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.71% 1.32% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -13.46% -13.33%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £461 £525 £498
% change year-on-year -12.19% +5.53% -16.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bracknell

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 Bracknell.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 105 76 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bracknell 86.78% 89.41% 92.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 46 58
10th Percentile £204 £237 £141
25th Percentile £456 £390 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £469
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £594 £550 £625
90th Percentile £650 £625 £798
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £62.18 £21.98 £18.95
25th Percentile £63.56 £26.00 £26.98
Median hourly rate £66.75 £28.50 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year +134.21% -34.23% +76.86%
75th Percentile £69.56 £41.00 £56.73
90th Percentile £70.73 £42.13 £65.93
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £59.00 £61.65
% change year-on-year -31.47% -4.29% +25.17%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Bracknell

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Bracknell

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Bracknell

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

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

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bracknell 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:

General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (83.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Test Manager
2 3 (50.00%) Strategy Manager
2 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) JWT
1 4 (66.67%) OAuth
1 4 (66.67%) SAML
2 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) IoT
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Conflict Management
1 5 (83.33%) Decision-Making
1 5 (83.33%) Matrix Organization
1 5 (83.33%) SDLC
1 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
1 5 (83.33%) Test Management
1 5 (83.33%) Waterfall
2 4 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 4 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 4 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
2 4 (66.67%) OWASP
2 4 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 4 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Foundry
2 1 (16.67%) Palantir