Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Test Strategy
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 77 68
Rank change year-on-year -10 -9 +2
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.33% 0.26% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.28% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £463 £508 -
25th Percentile £468 £519 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +12.24% +12.00%
75th Percentile £488 £594 £495
90th Percentile £489 £613 -
Scotland median daily rate £480 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -12.73% - +25.71%

All Process & 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 772 706 705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.46% 92.41% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 448 470
10th Percentile £290 £300 £275
25th Percentile £363 £370 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +3.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £561
90th Percentile £675 £600 £623
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £460
% change year-on-year - +0.54% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 18 32
10th Percentile £13.48 £16.31 £11.59
25th Percentile £14.07 £16.84 £15.92
Median hourly rate £17.00 £19.90 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -14.57% -51.39% +184.80%
75th Percentile £66.25 £26.21 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.07 £73.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -3.35% +2.56% +18.18%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Strategy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Test Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Test Strategy

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Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Test Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Test Strategy

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) MariaDB
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Gherkin
2 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Fabric
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) BDD
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Test Management
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) SDET
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks