Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Test Strategy
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 0.96% 3.60% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 3.85% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £380 -
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% - -
South London median daily rate £600 £380 -
% change year-on-year +57.89% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90 104 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 86.54% 93.69% 91.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 76 103
10th Percentile £461 £380 £231
25th Percentile £500 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% -2.42% -6.43%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £627
90th Percentile £600 £626 £675
South London median daily rate £506 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.71% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £16.64
25th Percentile - - £17.06
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £61.22 £73.60 £23.50
% change year-on-year -16.82% +213.19% -46.11%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Croydon

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (100.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA