Test Strategy Contracts in Bradford

Test Strategy
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bradford 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 12 21
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 +2
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bradford 3.77% 6.67% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 7.14% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile - £411 -
25th Percentile - £421 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £618
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -27.13% +190.59%
75th Percentile - £456 £626
90th Percentile - £460 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £435 £550 £700
% change year-on-year -20.91% -21.43% +21.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bradford

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 Bradford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48 42 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford 90.57% 93.33% 92.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 33 69
10th Percentile £300 £303 £331
25th Percentile £414 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -18.18% +20.55%
75th Percentile £592 £550 £625
90th Percentile £640 £675 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £495 £540
% change year-on-year -1.11% -8.33% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.16
Median hourly rate £22.14 - £15.44
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.37%
75th Percentile - - £20.81
90th Percentile - - £26.37
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.87 £19.00
% change year-on-year +59.63% -27.00% -1.81%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Bradford

Test Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bradford

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Bradford

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bradford 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) Nokia
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft