Test Strategy Contracts in Central London

Test Strategy
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 94 142
Rank change year-on-year +5 +48 +20
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 35 41 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.75% 1.68% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 1.85% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 27 26
10th Percentile - £405 £453
25th Percentile £413 £459 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% -22.22% +22.73%
75th Percentile £607 £625 £725
90th Percentile £710 £630 £738
London median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,211 3,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.89% 90.58% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,574 2,386
10th Percentile £361 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.01 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.11 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
City of London +2 35 £498 -5.24% 4
Southwark -3 1 £425 -
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.86%) Confluence
1 1 (2.86%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Chatbot
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.86%) Orchestrade
2 1 (2.86%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.86%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) AWS
2 4 (11.43%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.57%) Power Automate
3 3 (8.57%) Tricentis Tosca
4 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (5.71%) GitHub
4 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.71%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (2.86%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Big Data
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (37.14%) JIRA
2 12 (34.29%) Selenium
3 10 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 10 (28.57%) Postman
4 9 (25.71%) REST Assured
5 7 (20.00%) Git
6 2 (5.71%) Cypress.io
6 2 (5.71%) JMeter
6 2 (5.71%) LoadRunner
7 1 (2.86%) Appium
7 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.86%) Gatling
7 1 (2.86%) GitLab
7 1 (2.86%) Hamcrest
7 1 (2.86%) JUnit
7 1 (2.86%) PHPUnit
7 1 (2.86%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.86%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (34.29%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Banking
4 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Front Office
6 2 (5.71%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Billing
7 1 (2.86%) Legal
7 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Test Manager
2 7 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Senior
2 7 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Senior Test Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) QA Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Tester
6 2 (5.71%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Desktop Manager
6 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Financial Services Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365 Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Transformation Manager
7 1 (2.86%) FX Business Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Oracle Developer
7 1 (2.86%) SAP CRM Consultant
7 1 (2.86%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) pytest
1 7 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (2.86%) Jest
2 1 (2.86%) Kafka
2 1 (2.86%) Playwright
2 1 (2.86%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.71%) Data Fabric
2 2 (5.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Low-Code
2 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Windows
2 4 (11.43%) Linux
3 2 (5.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 13 (37.14%) CI/CD
3 12 (34.29%) API Testing
3 12 (34.29%) Test Scripting
4 11 (31.43%) Agile
5 8 (22.86%) BDD
5 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (22.86%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (20.00%) DevOps
6 7 (20.00%) Open Source
7 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (17.14%) Scrum
7 6 (17.14%) Test Management
8 5 (14.29%) Integration Testing
8 5 (14.29%) Regression Testing
8 5 (14.29%) Software Testing
9 4 (11.43%) ITIL
9 4 (11.43%) Line Management
9 4 (11.43%) Validation
10 3 (8.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) Python
2 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.71%) C#
3 2 (5.71%) Java
3 2 (5.71%) SQL
4 1 (2.86%) ABAP
4 1 (2.86%) PHP
4 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.86%) R
4 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) ISTQB
2 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (31.43%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) HP ALM
3 1 (2.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) SAP
2 2 (5.71%) HP
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Murex
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle
3 1 (2.86%) Concur
3 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.86%) Splunk
3 1 (2.86%) Workday