Test Strategy Contracts in Hampshire

Test Strategy
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 100 87
Rank change year-on-year +41 -13 +11
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 14 3 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.88% 0.18% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 0.22% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile £355 - -
25th Percentile £388 £431 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £438 £470
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -6.91% -3.09%
75th Percentile £488 £444 £563
90th Percentile - - £594
South East median daily rate £450 £519 £414
% change year-on-year -13.25% +25.30% -17.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £60.00 - £62.55
% change year-on-year - - +78.71%

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 668 1,346 1,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 89.91% 82.58% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 726 735
10th Percentile £325 £388 £239
25th Percentile £450 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% +11.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £615
90th Percentile £675 £744 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year -0.05% -1.43% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 167 100
10th Percentile £19.68 £13.05 £15.97
25th Percentile £30.63 £25.68 £20.47
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.35 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% +6.70% +139.96%
75th Percentile £72.50 £64.38 £66.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.50 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £26.34 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -44.56% -5.00% +132.56%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Hampshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Hampshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Hampshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Hampshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in Hampshire

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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 20 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
Southampton - 6 £345 - 4
Basingstoke - 3 £475 - 6
Portsmouth - 2 - - 4
Farnborough - 2 £444 - 1
Test Strategy
South East

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 4 (28.57%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) JIRA
2 4 (28.57%) TestRail
3 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 3 (21.43%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Senior
2 6 (42.86%) Tester
3 5 (35.71%) Senior Tester
4 3 (21.43%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) QA Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior QA Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Coordinator
6 1 (7.14%) Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Network Manager
6 1 (7.14%) QA Tester
6 1 (7.14%) RF Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior QA Tester
6 1 (7.14%) Test Coordinator
6 1 (7.14%) Test Manager
6 1 (7.14%) Test Validation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) SOAP
1 3 (21.43%) XML
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (28.57%) Manual Testing
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
2 4 (28.57%) User Stories
3 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
3 3 (21.43%) Programme Delivery
3 3 (21.43%) Requirements Management
3 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) Scrum
3 3 (21.43%) SysML
3 3 (21.43%) Test Scripting
3 3 (21.43%) UML
3 3 (21.43%) V-Model
3 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
4 2 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (14.29%) Line Management
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) ISTQB
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) HND
5 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco