Test Strategy Contracts in the City of London

Test Strategy
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Test Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Strategy over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 145 162
Rank change year-on-year +58 +17 -30
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 37 29 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.70% 0.80% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 0.87% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 23
10th Percentile £390 £463 £411
25th Percentile £461 £572 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £694 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +26.14% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £725 £625
90th Percentile £634 £738 £712
Central London median daily rate £525 £688 £550
% change year-on-year -23.64% +25.00% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Test Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,967 3,321 3,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.60% 91.59% 91.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,395 2,237 2,950
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £676
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.39% +9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 41
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.35 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in the City of London

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Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
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Central London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Loan IQ
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 11 (29.73%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
4 4 (10.81%) SaaS
5 3 (8.11%) Azure API Management
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
5 3 (8.11%) IaaS
5 3 (8.11%) PaaS
6 2 (5.41%) AWS
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.41%) dbt
6 2 (5.41%) GCP
6 2 (5.41%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.70%) Miro
7 1 (2.70%) Serverless
7 1 (2.70%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Power BI
2 2 (5.41%) BigQuery
2 2 (5.41%) Looker
2 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.41%) Tableau
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) SpecFlow
2 6 (16.22%) Postman
3 5 (13.51%) Selenium
4 4 (10.81%) JIRA
5 3 (8.11%) Appium
5 3 (8.11%) Git
6 2 (5.41%) Cucumber
6 2 (5.41%) eggPlant
6 2 (5.41%) JUnit
6 2 (5.41%) REST Assured
6 2 (5.41%) SoapUI
6 2 (5.41%) SOAtest
6 2 (5.41%) TestNG
6 2 (5.41%) TestRail
6 2 (5.41%) WebDriver
7 1 (2.70%) Gatling
7 1 (2.70%) JMeter
7 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
3 3 (8.11%) Back Office
3 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Banking
4 2 (5.41%) Marketing
4 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Front Office
5 1 (2.70%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Lead
2 7 (18.92%) Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Senior
3 5 (13.51%) Test Leader
4 4 (10.81%) Test Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Test Manager
5 3 (8.11%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Consultant
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Data Scientist
6 2 (5.41%) QA Leader
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Test Consultant
7 1 (2.70%) Automation Consultant
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) ETL Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) SaaS Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) SaaS Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) .NET
2 3 (8.11%) XML
3 2 (5.41%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (5.41%) REST
4 1 (2.70%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.70%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.70%) Life Science
2 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.70%) Reinsurance
2 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Android
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
1 2 (5.41%) Unix
1 2 (5.41%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Test Automation
2 12 (32.43%) Agile
3 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
4 7 (18.92%) DevOps
5 6 (16.22%) API Testing
5 6 (16.22%) ETRM
5 6 (16.22%) Performance Testing
6 5 (13.51%) API Management
6 5 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (13.51%) Data Transformation
6 5 (13.51%) ETL
6 5 (13.51%) Migration
6 5 (13.51%) Test Scripting
7 4 (10.81%) Coaching
7 4 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (10.81%) Mentoring
7 4 (10.81%) Software Testing
8 3 (8.11%) Data Modelling
8 3 (8.11%) Manual Testing
8 3 (8.11%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (37.84%) C#
2 13 (35.14%) SQL
3 5 (13.51%) Python
4 3 (8.11%) Java
5 2 (5.41%) Kotlin
5 2 (5.41%) MATLAB
5 2 (5.41%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) ISTQB
2 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) ISEB
4 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (35.14%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) PMO
2 1 (2.70%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
1 3 (8.11%) Okta
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle
1 3 (8.11%) Ping Identity
2 2 (5.41%) Google
2 2 (5.41%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.70%) Adobe
3 1 (2.70%) Citrix
3 1 (2.70%) Informatica
3 1 (2.70%) Qualtrics
3 1 (2.70%) SnapLogic
3 1 (2.70%) Splunk