Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Test Strategy
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 66 85
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 +11
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 23 9 8
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.74% 0.99% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.17% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 8
10th Percentile £317 £419 £374
25th Percentile £320 £508 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% +9.68% -9.52%
75th Percentile £581 £534 £541
90th Percentile £738 £544 £552
South East median daily rate £455 £521 £425
% change year-on-year -12.67% +22.59% -26.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 768 1,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 83.03% 84.49% 86.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 739 533 619
10th Percentile £312 £356 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.80%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £649
90th Percentile £725 £698 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 47 74
10th Percentile £16.17 £20.65 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.25 £21.48
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £50.71
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -30.98% +16.57%
75th Percentile £25.15 £70.00 £63.44
90th Percentile £49.63 £75.00 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.78 £53.50
% change year-on-year -52.91% -10.69% +42.67%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Hampshire over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Hampshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Test Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Basingstoke - 7 £500 - 5
Farnborough - 6 £320 -
Southampton 0 4 £650 +26.27% 4
Winchester - 3 £725 -
Test Strategy
South East

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.35%) AWS
1 1 (4.35%) Azure
1 1 (4.35%) GCP
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) JIRA
2 6 (26.09%) Gatling
2 6 (26.09%) JMeter
2 6 (26.09%) LoadRunner
3 3 (13.04%) HP UFT
3 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.04%) Katalon Studio
3 3 (13.04%) Selenium
4 2 (8.70%) Cypress.io
4 2 (8.70%) SoapUI
5 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Tester
2 6 (26.09%) Test Manager
3 5 (21.74%) Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Performance Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Testing Analyst
5 3 (13.04%) Automation Tester
6 2 (8.70%) Network Manager
6 2 (8.70%) Senior
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Tester
6 2 (8.70%) Test Validation Manager
7 1 (4.35%) Automation Test Lead
7 1 (4.35%) Lead
7 1 (4.35%) Programme Manager
7 1 (4.35%) Programme Test Manager
7 1 (4.35%) Test Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Test Automation Manager
7 1 (4.35%) Test Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Test Leader
7 1 (4.35%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Playwright
2 2 (8.70%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (8.70%) SOAP
2 2 (8.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
1 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Performance Testing
1 9 (39.13%) Test Automation
2 7 (30.43%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 5 (21.74%) Incident Response
4 5 (21.74%) Performance Metrics
4 5 (21.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (21.74%) Task Automation
4 5 (21.74%) Test Planning
5 4 (17.39%) Agile
5 4 (17.39%) Waterfall
6 3 (13.04%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (13.04%) Functional Testing
6 3 (13.04%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (8.70%) BDD
7 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (8.70%) Matrix Organization
7 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
7 2 (8.70%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (56.52%) Security Cleared
2 10 (43.48%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) CCIE
3 1 (4.35%) CCNP
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Ansible
1 5 (21.74%) Grafana
1 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
1 5 (21.74%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco