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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 24 49
Rank change year-on-year -38 +25 +20
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 12 12 2
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.41% 5.08% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 5.36% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 2
10th Percentile £221 £387 £469
25th Percentile £223 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £425 £524
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -18.85% +8.83%
75th Percentile £475 £450 £556
90th Percentile £490 £470 £573
South East median daily rate £425 £463 £525
% change year-on-year -8.11% -11.90% +26.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £60.00 -

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 667 224 396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 78.29% 94.92% 80.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 146 276
10th Percentile £326 £243 £273
25th Percentile £450 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £469
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +1.20% -4.21%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £550
90th Percentile £638 £650 £645
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.20% -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 31 29
10th Percentile - - £15.85
25th Percentile £15.05 £14.20 £18.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £15.12 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% -39.52% +84.23%
75th Percentile £18.32 £20.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £19.34 £62.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +108.75% -47.05% -9.52%

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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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -37 9 £430 +1.18% 2
High Wycombe - 1 - - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) Selenium
1 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Test Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Test Leader
3 2 (16.67%) QA Manager
3 2 (16.67%) QA Test Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Functional Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Tester
4 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Testing Manager
4 1 (8.33%) UAT Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (8.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (66.67%) Defect Management
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Non-Functional Testing
3 5 (41.67%) Scenario Testing
3 5 (41.67%) Test Management
3 5 (41.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 4 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
4 4 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (33.33%) Regression Testing
4 4 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Test Assurance
4 4 (33.33%) Validation
5 3 (25.00%) Integration Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Data Reconciliation
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) ISTQB
2 5 (41.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (75.00%) QA
2 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle