Test Strategy Contracts in the East of England

Test Strategy
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 68 87
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 +36
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 9 40 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.96% 2.09% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 2.43% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 25
10th Percentile £625 £458 £227
25th Percentile £663 £489 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -3.41% +7.79%
75th Percentile £848 £578 £725
90th Percentile £891 £628 £743
England median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £26.51
25th Percentile - - £34.98
Median hourly rate - - £42.37
75th Percentile - - £45.05
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £58.94
% change year-on-year -4.00% +6.04% +93.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 835 1,648 1,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.11% 86.06% 87.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 704 1,052
10th Percentile £225 £209 £200
25th Percentile £400 £342 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +1.06%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 611 339
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.46 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £41.25 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £71.88 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

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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 2 May 2025.

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 2 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
Bedfordshire +4 3 £755 +37.27% 5
Essex - 3 - - 1
Hertfordshire -4 2 £750 +51.90% 7
Cambridgeshire - 1 - - 8
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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 3 (33.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) SAP ERP
1 2 (22.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) JMeter
2 3 (33.33%) TestRail
3 2 (22.22%) LoadRunner
3 2 (22.22%) NeoLoad
4 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
4 1 (11.11%) TestDirector
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Lead
1 4 (44.44%) Test Leader
2 3 (33.33%) QA Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Strategy Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy Manager
4 1 (11.11%) UAT Lead
4 1 (11.11%) UAT Manager
4 1 (11.11%) UAT Test Lead
4 1 (11.11%) UAT Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) FMCG
1 2 (22.22%) Life Science
2 1 (11.11%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (33.33%) ERP
2 3 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Scrum
2 3 (33.33%) Test Management
2 3 (33.33%) User Stories
2 3 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Matrix Management
3 2 (22.22%) Service Management
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Functional Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Resilience Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) GxP
2 2 (22.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Ariba
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce