Test Strategy Contracts in the East of England

Test Strategy
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 85 124
Rank change year-on-year +18 +39 -36
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 40 33 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.09% 1.59% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 1.83% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 25 14
10th Percentile £458 £227 £429
25th Percentile £489 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +7.79% +11.84%
75th Percentile £578 £725 £523
90th Percentile £628 £743 £581
England median daily rate £525 £535 £518
% change year-on-year -1.87% +3.28% +11.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £42.37 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.55 £30.50
% change year-on-year -0.08% +105.08% -32.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,649 1,803 2,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.24% 87.10% 88.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 729 1,065 1,268
10th Percentile £212 £200 £185
25th Percentile £350 £313 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £467
Median % change year-on-year - +1.82% +9.76%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 599 341 390
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.34 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.62 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.47% +58.84% -11.43%
75th Percentile £63.13 £65.00 £37.17
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the East of England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Hertfordshire +20 37 £494 -10.23% 2
Suffolk +4 2 £641 -13.80%
Bedfordshire -9 1 £550 +120.00%
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (5.00%) Apache
1 2 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Loan IQ
1 1 (2.50%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (5.00%) AWS
1 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (5.00%) Azure
1 2 (5.00%) Serverless
2 1 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.50%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Big Data
1 2 (5.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.50%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (2.50%) Maven
2 1 (2.50%) TestRail
General
1 34 (85.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (77.50%) Aerospace
2 31 (77.50%) Electronics
2 31 (77.50%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Banking
4 1 (2.50%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (77.50%) Architect
1 31 (77.50%) Test Architect
2 3 (7.50%) Lead
2 3 (7.50%) Test Leader
2 3 (7.50%) Test Manager
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (2.50%) ETL Tester
3 1 (2.50%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (2.50%) Portfolio Manager
3 1 (2.50%) Portfolio Test Manager
3 1 (2.50%) SAP Manager
3 1 (2.50%) SAP Test Manager
3 1 (2.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 31 (77.50%) Analogue Electronics
2 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.50%) FMCG
2 1 (2.50%) PMI
2 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
1 2 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (80.00%) Project Management
2 31 (77.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (7.50%) Performance Testing
4 3 (7.50%) SDLC
4 3 (7.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (7.50%) Test Management
5 2 (5.00%) Agile
5 2 (5.00%) Coaching
5 2 (5.00%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (5.00%) Data Integration
5 2 (5.00%) Defect Management
5 2 (5.00%) ETL
5 2 (5.00%) ITIL
5 2 (5.00%) PRINCE2
5 2 (5.00%) Scrum
5 2 (5.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (5.00%) Validation
6 1 (2.50%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (2.50%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.50%) SQL
2 2 (5.00%) Java
2 2 (5.00%) Python
3 1 (2.50%) C#
3 1 (2.50%) Scala
3 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 32 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.50%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.50%) Databricks
2 1 (2.50%) HP
2 1 (2.50%) SAP
2 1 (2.50%) ScienceLogic
2 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow