Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Test Strategy
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 67 64
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +18
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 5 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.69% 0.66% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.79% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £404 £464 -
25th Percentile £409 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £590 £425
Median % change year-on-year -25.85% +38.82% -17.15%
75th Percentile £597 - £438
90th Percentile £681 - -
South West median daily rate £575 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% -12.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £64.25
Median hourly rate - - £68.50
75th Percentile - - £72.75
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate - - £68.50

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 670 756 926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 92.54% 83.08% 86.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 405 631
10th Percentile £256 £290 £308
25th Percentile £379 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £701 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 141 113
10th Percentile £12.82 £50.00 £18.23
25th Percentile £18.87 £65.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +7.69% +2.20%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £77.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +7.14% +9.14%

Test Strategy
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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Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Bristol over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Bristol

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

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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 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (20.00%) UAT Lead
2 1 (20.00%) UAT Test Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Test Management
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Coaching
3 2 (40.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Test Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Planning and Forecasting
4 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Test Assurance
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) IFS