Test Strategy Contracts in the East Midlands

Test Strategy
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 51 65
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 +6
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 21 13 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.73% 1.72% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 2.15% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 6
10th Percentile £266 £341 £481
25th Percentile £322 £379 £636
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £400 £743
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -46.16% +29.22%
75th Percentile £420 £450 -
90th Percentile £488 £565 -
England median daily rate £475 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -7.09% +2.25% -7.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 662 604 762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.09% 80.00% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 412 567
10th Percentile £223 £263 £213
25th Percentile £334 £359 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -5.26% +2.98%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £625 £623 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 36 44
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £12.18
25th Percentile £16.14 £14.82 £17.10
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.75 £33.40
Median % change year-on-year -9.06% -37.86% +55.33%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.80 £53.81
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 13 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Northamptonshire -6 15 £340 -15.00%
Leicestershire - 2 £360 - 3
Derbyshire +5 1 - - 1
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (14.29%) CICS
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) AWS
1 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (9.52%) BrowserStack
2 2 (9.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) DB2
1 3 (14.29%) Power BI
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
2 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Selenium
2 7 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 5 (23.81%) REST Assured
4 3 (14.29%) Eclipse
4 3 (14.29%) Git
4 3 (14.29%) IntelliJ
4 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 3 (14.29%) JIRA
4 3 (14.29%) LoadRunner
4 3 (14.29%) Maven
5 2 (9.52%) Cypress.io
5 2 (9.52%) JMeter
5 2 (9.52%) Postman
5 2 (9.52%) SoapUI
6 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
6 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
6 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Tester
2 7 (33.33%) Automation Tester
3 4 (19.05%) Lead
4 3 (14.29%) Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Test Leader
5 2 (9.52%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (9.52%) Performance Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Performance Test Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Security Specialist
5 2 (9.52%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Applications Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Applications Project Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Deployment Manager
6 1 (4.76%) ETRM Business Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Mainframe Tester
6 1 (4.76%) Product Tester
6 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) REST
2 3 (14.29%) jQuery
3 2 (9.52%) SailPoint
4 1 (4.76%) .NET
4 1 (4.76%) JSON
4 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Mainframe
1 3 (14.29%) VSAM
2 2 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 8 (38.10%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (38.10%) Scenario Testing
3 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (33.33%) DevOps
4 6 (28.57%) API Testing
5 5 (23.81%) Test Scripting
5 5 (23.81%) Validation
6 4 (19.05%) Agile
6 4 (19.05%) Code Quality
6 4 (19.05%) Non-Functional Testing
6 4 (19.05%) Software Testing
6 4 (19.05%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (14.29%) Coaching
7 3 (14.29%) Data Validation
7 3 (14.29%) Kanban
7 3 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) SQL
2 6 (28.57%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) COBOL
3 3 (14.29%) JCL
4 2 (9.52%) Python
5 1 (4.76%) C#
5 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) CISA
1 2 (9.52%) CISM
1 2 (9.52%) CISSP
1 2 (9.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) COBIT
2 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (9.52%) NIST
2 2 (9.52%) NIST 800
3 1 (4.76%) EMIR
3 1 (4.76%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kibana
2 2 (9.52%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) AppDynamics
2 3 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) New Relic
2 3 (14.29%) Splunk
3 2 (9.52%) Alteryx
3 2 (9.52%) Nintex
3 2 (9.52%) Rapid7
3 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.76%) Trayport