Test Strategy Contracts in Bristol

Test Strategy
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 53 63 93
Rank change year-on-year +10 +30 +6
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 2 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.37% 1.04% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 1.25% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile £533 £516 £340
25th Percentile £563 £562 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £585 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% +30.00% -2.70%
75th Percentile £688 £590 £475
90th Percentile £718 - £513
South West median daily rate £620 £562 £513
% change year-on-year +10.23% +9.75% +13.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 493 879 1,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.81% 83.16% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 484 750
10th Percentile £222 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £567 £602 £631
90th Percentile £657 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 184 220
10th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £42.51 £45.00 £9.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +36.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £83.88
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP