Test Strategy Contracts in England

Test Strategy
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 203 224 215
Rank change year-on-year +21 -9 -13
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 417 619 945
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.12% 1.22% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.35% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 437 624
10th Percentile £358 £400 £386
25th Percentile £416 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £518
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +2.90% +11.55%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £588
90th Percentile £775 £727 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.39% +10.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 6
10th Percentile £56.25 - £20.88
25th Percentile £58.13 £39.68 £25.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.55 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.08% +105.08% -32.22%
75th Percentile £68.13 £68.15 £55.36
90th Percentile £70.75 £80.42 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.55 £26.00
% change year-on-year +11.91% +140.58% -42.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,208 45,878 64,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.28% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,179 32,145 45,991
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,233 1,631 1,786
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.23
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.19
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in England

Test Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in England

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in England

Test Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in England

Test Strategy
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Strategy in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Strategy in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 24 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
London +74 240 £550 - 70
East of England +19 40 £531 -7.61% 14
South East -18 40 £463 -5.13% 28
Midlands -35 37 £400 -25.93% 17
North of England -11 31 £450 -14.29% 21
West Midlands -36 28 £379 -29.81% 13
South West +16 23 £562 +7.14% 11
North West -1 15 £450 +5.88% 14
Yorkshire -3 14 £463 -15.91% 5
East Midlands +12 9 £422 -37.23% 4
North East +14 2 £408 +1.88% 2
Test Strategy
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Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 9 (2.16%) Confluence
1 9 (2.16%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.92%) MTS
3 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.96%) Apache
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.48%) CMS
5 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.24%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.48%) Maya
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.60%) Oracle Applications
2 8 (1.92%) Aligne
2 8 (1.92%) Endur
2 8 (1.92%) EuroRunner
2 8 (1.92%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (1.44%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (1.20%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (1.20%) Oracle Cash Management
5 5 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.96%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.72%) Oracle AGIS
8 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.48%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle Payroll
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.24%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 96 (23.02%) Azure
2 48 (11.51%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (7.43%) AWS
4 30 (7.19%) Power Platform
5 26 (6.24%) Dynamics 365
6 20 (4.80%) OCI
7 16 (3.84%) Azure API Management
7 16 (3.84%) Azure Logic Apps
8 11 (2.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 9 (2.16%) Oracle CX
9 9 (2.16%) SaaS
10 6 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (1.44%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.44%) PowerApps
10 6 (1.44%) Serverless
11 5 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.20%) GCP
11 5 (1.20%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.44%) HTTP
2 3 (0.72%) Internet
2 3 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.48%) SAN
4 1 (0.24%) Firewall
4 1 (0.24%) Network Security
4 1 (0.24%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.24%) WAN
4 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.47%) Power BI
2 18 (4.32%) MySQL
3 16 (3.84%) Oracle Reports
4 10 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.40%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.92%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.20%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.20%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.96%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.96%) SAP HANA
7 4 (0.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.72%) Big Data
8 3 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (10.55%) Git
2 43 (10.31%) JIRA
3 42 (10.07%) Selenium
4 28 (6.71%) Cucumber
5 26 (6.24%) Postman
6 24 (5.76%) JMeter
6 24 (5.76%) SpecFlow
7 19 (4.56%) JUnit
8 18 (4.32%) WebDriver
9 16 (3.84%) LoadRunner
10 15 (3.60%) Appium
10 15 (3.60%) REST Assured
11 13 (3.12%) Gatling
11 13 (3.12%) Jenkins
11 13 (3.12%) TestNG
12 12 (2.88%) TestRail
13 11 (2.64%) SoapUI
13 11 (2.64%) Visual Studio
14 10 (2.40%) eggPlant
14 10 (2.40%) SOAtest
General
1 134 (32.13%) Social Skills
2 108 (25.90%) Finance
3 36 (8.63%) Manufacturing
4 34 (8.15%) Electronics
5 31 (7.43%) Aerospace
6 29 (6.95%) Public Sector
7 27 (6.47%) Banking
8 21 (5.04%) Presentation Skills
9 20 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
10 15 (3.60%) Investment Banking
11 13 (3.12%) Marketing
12 11 (2.64%) Front Office
13 10 (2.40%) Back Office
13 10 (2.40%) Legal
13 10 (2.40%) Retail
14 8 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (1.68%) Telecoms
16 6 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (1.20%) General Ledger
17 5 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (20.14%) Lead
2 71 (17.03%) Test Manager
3 52 (12.47%) Architect
4 46 (11.03%) Senior
5 44 (10.55%) Test Leader
6 40 (9.59%) Analyst
7 37 (8.87%) Test Architect
8 30 (7.19%) Tester
9 24 (5.76%) Developer
10 23 (5.52%) Test Engineer
11 20 (4.80%) Test Analyst
12 14 (3.36%) Automation Tester
12 14 (3.36%) Project Manager
13 13 (3.12%) Business Analyst
14 12 (2.88%) Senior Test Engineer
15 11 (2.64%) Consultant
16 10 (2.40%) ABAP Developer
16 10 (2.40%) SAP Developer
17 8 (1.92%) QA Analyst
17 8 (1.92%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.24%) .NET
1 26 (6.24%) XML
2 17 (4.08%) REST
3 13 (3.12%) .NET Framework
4 11 (2.64%) Playwright
5 10 (2.40%) Web Dynpro
6 9 (2.16%) AngularJS
7 8 (1.92%) Web Services
8 7 (1.68%) Gherkin
8 7 (1.68%) GraphQL
8 7 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (1.44%) JSON
9 6 (1.44%) React
10 4 (0.96%) ActiveMQ
10 4 (0.96%) Kafka
11 3 (0.72%) CSS
11 3 (0.72%) HTML
11 3 (0.72%) Middleware
11 3 (0.72%) Node.js
11 3 (0.72%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.43%) Analogue Electronics
2 13 (3.12%) Hedge funds
3 11 (2.64%) Equities
3 11 (2.64%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (2.16%) Market Risk
5 8 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
5 8 (1.92%) Solar Panel
6 7 (1.68%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.68%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.20%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.96%) Derivative
9 3 (0.72%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.72%) FMCG
9 3 (0.72%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.72%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.72%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.72%) Wiki
10 2 (0.48%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.80%) Windows
2 16 (3.84%) Unix
3 13 (3.12%) Linux
4 4 (0.96%) Mac OS X
5 3 (0.72%) Android
6 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (33.33%) Agile
2 132 (31.65%) Test Automation
3 75 (17.99%) Stakeholder Management
3 75 (17.99%) User Acceptance Testing
4 68 (16.31%) Project Management
5 67 (16.07%) DevOps
6 56 (13.43%) Migration
7 54 (12.95%) CI/CD
8 50 (11.99%) Software Testing
9 49 (11.75%) Test Management
9 49 (11.75%) Test Scripting
10 48 (11.51%) Performance Testing
11 47 (11.27%) System Integration Testing
12 44 (10.55%) Scrum
13 43 (10.31%) Scenario Testing
14 42 (10.07%) Process Improvement
15 41 (9.83%) Continuous Integration
15 41 (9.83%) Problem-Solving
16 37 (8.87%) Functional Testing
17 36 (8.63%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 57 (13.67%) C#
2 50 (11.99%) SQL
3 41 (9.83%) Java
4 24 (5.76%) Python
5 16 (3.84%) TypeScript
6 12 (2.88%) JavaScript
7 10 (2.40%) ABAP
8 6 (1.44%) VB
9 5 (1.20%) Scala
9 5 (1.20%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.96%) Groovy
10 4 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.96%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.96%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.72%) C
11 3 (0.72%) C++
11 3 (0.72%) PHP
11 3 (0.72%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 93 (22.30%) Security Cleared
2 90 (21.58%) SC Cleared
3 43 (10.31%) Degree
4 34 (8.15%) ISTQB
5 25 (6.00%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 8 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.68%) ISEB
8 5 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 4 (0.96%) CISM
9 4 (0.96%) CISSP
9 4 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.48%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.24%) PgMP
12 1 (0.24%) PMP
12 1 (0.24%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (27.82%) QA
2 12 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.92%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.92%) PMO
5 5 (1.20%) SLA
6 4 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.48%) HL7
7 2 (0.48%) WCAG
8 1 (0.24%) EMIR
8 1 (0.24%) GDPR
8 1 (0.24%) IFRS
8 1 (0.24%) MiFID
8 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (1.92%) Docker
2 5 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.72%) vSphere
4 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (2.16%) Grafana
2 5 (1.20%) HP ALM
3 4 (0.96%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.72%) Kibana
5 2 (0.48%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.24%) vRealize
Vendors
1 42 (10.07%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.39%) Oracle
3 31 (7.43%) SAP
4 14 (3.36%) Adobe
4 14 (3.36%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.40%) Splunk
6 9 (2.16%) Denodo
6 9 (2.16%) Talend
7 7 (1.68%) HP
7 7 (1.68%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.20%) Google
9 4 (0.96%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (0.96%) iManage
9 4 (0.96%) Intapp
9 4 (0.96%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.96%) Qualtrics
9 4 (0.96%) VMware
10 3 (0.72%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.72%) Okta
10 3 (0.72%) Ping Identity