Test Strategy Contracts in Glasgow

Test Strategy
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 77 80 70
Rank change year-on-year +3 -10 +6
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 2 2 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.25% 0.23% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.25% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 13
10th Percentile £417 - £411
25th Percentile £431 £485 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £490 £438
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% +12.00% +2.94%
75th Percentile £477 £495 £456
90th Percentile £491 - £600
Scotland median daily rate £525 £519 £450
% change year-on-year +1.11% +15.39% +2.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Database Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) DocuSign
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft