Test Strategy Contracts in Devon

Test Strategy
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Devon 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 29 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 4 8 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 3.74% 2.91% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 3.62% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £562 -
South West median daily rate £620 £562 £513
% change year-on-year +10.23% +9.75% +13.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 94 221 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 87.85% 80.36% 82.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 154 124
10th Percentile £145 £150 £238
25th Percentile £153 £307 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year - -10.05% +15.96%
75th Percentile £525 £556 £600
90th Percentile £600 £600 £675
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 33 9
10th Percentile £26.40 £10.42 £39.60
25th Percentile £48.50 £13.86 £47.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -45.45% +161.90%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £73.00
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Devon

Test Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Devon

Test Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in Devon

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Contract Job Locations in Devon

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 Devon region over the 6 months to 1 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
Exeter +12 4 - - 3
Test Strategy
South West

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Pipelines
1 4 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
General
1 4 (100.00%) Military
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Test Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) System Integration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Bug Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft