Test Strategy Contracts in the City of London

Test Strategy
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 95 139
Rank change year-on-year +5 +44 +18
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 32 33 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.84% 1.52% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 1.68% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 21
10th Percentile £411 £379 £463
25th Percentile £413 £433 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £525 £688
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -23.64% +25.00%
75th Percentile £664 £616 £725
90th Percentile £725 £625 £738
Central London median daily rate £473 £525 £688
% change year-on-year -10.00% -23.64% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,625 1,959 3,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.61% 90.44% 91.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,017 1,379 2,192
10th Percentile £356 £350 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £14.75
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.15 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -26.79% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £41.65 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

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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 20 May 2025.

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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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 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Chatbot
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Orchestrade
1 1 (3.13%) SAP CRM
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) AWS
2 5 (15.63%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (9.38%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (9.38%) Power Automate
4 2 (6.25%) GitHub
4 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.25%) PowerApps
4 2 (6.25%) Tricentis Tosca
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.13%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Big Data
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (40.63%) JIRA
2 11 (34.38%) Selenium
3 10 (31.25%) Jenkins
3 10 (31.25%) Postman
4 9 (28.13%) REST Assured
5 7 (21.88%) Git
6 2 (6.25%) JMeter
6 2 (6.25%) LoadRunner
7 1 (3.13%) Appium
7 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.13%) Gatling
7 1 (3.13%) GitLab
7 1 (3.13%) Hamcrest
7 1 (3.13%) JUnit
7 1 (3.13%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Finance
3 5 (15.63%) Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Front Office
4 3 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Billing
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Test Manager
2 7 (21.88%) Python Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Test Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Senior
3 6 (18.75%) Senior Test Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) QA Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Tester
6 2 (6.25%) Data Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Desktop Manager
6 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Financial Services Project Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Transformation Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Portfolio Test Manager
7 1 (3.13%) SQL Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) UAT Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Workday Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) pytest
1 7 (21.88%) REST
2 1 (3.13%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Data Fabric
1 2 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Low-Code
1 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Windows
2 3 (9.38%) Linux
3 2 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) Test Automation
2 14 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 12 (37.50%) API Testing
3 12 (37.50%) Test Scripting
4 10 (31.25%) Agile
5 8 (25.00%) BDD
5 8 (25.00%) DevOps
5 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (21.88%) Open Source
6 7 (21.88%) Scrum
6 7 (21.88%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (12.50%) Code Quality
8 4 (12.50%) ITIL
8 4 (12.50%) Line Management
8 4 (12.50%) Performance Testing
8 4 (12.50%) Regression Testing
8 4 (12.50%) Software Testing
8 4 (12.50%) Test Management
9 3 (9.38%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) Python
2 2 (6.25%) C#
2 2 (6.25%) Java
2 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.13%) ABAP
3 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.13%) R
3 1 (3.13%) SQL
3 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
1 2 (6.25%) ISTQB
1 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (31.25%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) HP ALM
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) HP
2 2 (6.25%) Murex
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) SAP
3 1 (3.13%) Splunk
3 1 (3.13%) Workday