Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Test Strategy
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 44 54
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 +30
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 11 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 2.47% 1.47% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 1.69% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 3
10th Percentile £222 - £485
25th Percentile £232 £363 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £419 £575
Median % change year-on-year -35.52% -27.17% +10.84%
75th Percentile £378 £481 £581
90th Percentile £505 £502 £584
South East median daily rate £461 £503 £425
% change year-on-year -8.26% +18.24% -22.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 374 296 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 83.86% 87.06% 90.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 210 360
10th Percentile £223 £234 £279
25th Percentile £356 £402 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £560 £588 £610
90th Percentile £638 £650 £743
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £516
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.16% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 20
10th Percentile - £15.35 £15.72
25th Percentile £15.91 £22.03 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £23.48
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% +53.31% +46.77%
75th Percentile £29.61 £49.81 £27.75
90th Percentile £34.72 £55.63 £30.00
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £45.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -50.00% -18.18% +28.87%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Buckinghamshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 4 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +7 11 £270 -28.00% 4
Test Strategy
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Law
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Lead
1 6 (54.55%) Test Leader
2 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) CRM Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Migration Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Migration Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Manual Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Migration Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Test Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (18.18%) SAP PI
2 1 (9.09%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (72.73%) Defect Management
3 6 (54.55%) Regression Testing
4 5 (45.45%) Knowledge Management
4 5 (45.45%) Knowledge Transfer
4 5 (45.45%) Scenario Testing
4 5 (45.45%) Test Assurance
4 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
5 4 (36.36%) Data Migration
5 4 (36.36%) Migration
5 4 (36.36%) Validation
6 3 (27.27%) Agile
6 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
6 3 (27.27%) Data Reconciliation
6 3 (27.27%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (27.27%) ETL
6 3 (27.27%) Functional Testing
6 3 (27.27%) Test Planning
7 2 (18.18%) Logistics
7 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) QA
2 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
3 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) CheckPoint
2 3 (27.27%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) HP
3 1 (9.09%) JDA
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce