Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Central London

Test Strategy
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 96 141
Rank change year-on-year -13 +45 +6
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 18 34 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.92% 1.48% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.61% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 20 16
10th Percentile £326 £375 £475
25th Percentile £469 £413 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £473 £688
Median % change year-on-year +16.34% -31.24% +5.77%
75th Percentile £625 £579 £717
90th Percentile £809 £729 £763
London median daily rate £520 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% -5.98%

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 1,828 2,117 2,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.89% 92.04% 90.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,226 1,370 2,025
10th Percentile £318 £375 £358
25th Percentile £418 £475 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £774 £787 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 26 17
10th Percentile £18.96 £17.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.28 £16.61
Median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%
75th Percentile £50.75 £41.75 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £115.00 £59.30
London median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £39.63
% change year-on-year -10.00% -11.67% +7.82%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Test Strategy

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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 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Central London

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Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Test Strategy

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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 17 September 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 -6 18 £550 +16.90% 3
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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 3 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP CRM
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
1 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.56%) BrowserStack
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
3 1 (5.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Data Hub
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) JIRA
2 3 (16.67%) Postman
3 2 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 2 (11.11%) Gatling
3 2 (11.11%) GitLab
3 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.11%) LoadRunner
3 2 (11.11%) Selenium
4 1 (5.56%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.56%) Hamcrest
4 1 (5.56%) JMeter
4 1 (5.56%) JUnit
4 1 (5.56%) REST Assured
4 1 (5.56%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
3 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (22.22%) Banking
5 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.56%) Billing
6 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Test Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Data Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Platform Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Senior
2 2 (11.11%) Test Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Testing Manager
3 1 (5.56%) CRM Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Desktop Manager
3 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Lead
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Test Leader
3 1 (5.56%) Test Programme Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (5.56%) UAT Manager
3 1 (5.56%) UAT Test Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Workday Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) CSS
1 1 (5.56%) HTML
1 1 (5.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (5.56%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Test Automation
2 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (44.44%) Agile
4 7 (38.89%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (33.33%) DevOps
5 6 (33.33%) Scrum
5 6 (33.33%) Test Scripting
6 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (27.78%) Performance Testing
7 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
7 4 (22.22%) Regression Testing
7 4 (22.22%) Test Management
8 3 (16.67%) Analytics
8 3 (16.67%) API Testing
8 3 (16.67%) Integration Testing
8 3 (16.67%) ITIL
8 3 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
9 2 (11.11%) Functional Testing
9 2 (11.11%) Software Delivery
9 2 (11.11%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) ABAP
3 1 (5.56%) C#
3 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) HP ALM
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe
2 1 (5.56%) HP
2 1 (5.56%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) Splunk
2 1 (5.56%) Workday