Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Test Strategy
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 38 50
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 +13
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.52% 0.68% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.76% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
East of England median daily rate £641 £830 £563
% change year-on-year -22.77% +47.56% -6.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 314 264 410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 81.14% 89.80% 84.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 129 155
10th Percentile £211 £313 £235
25th Percentile £335 £413 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £478
Median % change year-on-year - -0.63% +0.63%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £566
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £496
% change year-on-year -5.00% +0.76% -0.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 48 184
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.31 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.71 £21.46 £20.06
90th Percentile £34.83 £31.48 £36.55
East of England median hourly rate £20.23 £40.00 £30.48
% change year-on-year -49.43% +31.26% +24.29%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 15 February 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
Cambridge -6 2 £350 - 2
Test Strategy
East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) pytest
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA