Test Strategy Contracts in Hertfordshire

Test Strategy
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 37 57 71
Rank change year-on-year +20 +14 -20
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 37 20 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 4.50% 2.42% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.99% 2.80% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 2
10th Percentile £444 - £441
25th Percentile £455 £450 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.23% +12.82% +18.18%
75th Percentile £517 £700 £522
90th Percentile £518 £720 £524
East of England median daily rate £531 £575 £503
% change year-on-year -7.61% +14.43% +10.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £42.37 -
East of England median hourly rate - £42.37 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 742 715 688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 90.16% 86.67% 87.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 383 408
10th Percentile £238 £242 £204
25th Percentile £325 £363 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £597 £676 £625
90th Percentile £701 £771 £688
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 160 84
10th Percentile £38.12 £30.43 £20.30
25th Percentile £40.00 £53.69 £39.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £50.43
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +28.90% +12.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.65 -
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +60.00% +61.29% -11.43%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Hertfordshire

Test Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Hertfordshire

Test Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in Hertfordshire

Test Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage +18 31 - -
Watford +7 2 - -
Hatfield -6 2 £475 -20.83%
St Albans +3 1 £513 -
Test Strategy
East of England

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 2 (5.41%) Apache
1 2 (5.41%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (5.41%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
1 2 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (5.41%) AWS
1 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (5.41%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Big Data
1 2 (5.41%) Hadoop
1 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (2.70%) Maven
General
1 32 (86.49%) Social Skills
2 31 (83.78%) Aerospace
2 31 (83.78%) Electronics
2 31 (83.78%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (83.78%) Architect
1 31 (83.78%) Test Architect
2 2 (5.41%) Lead
2 2 (5.41%) Test Leader
2 2 (5.41%) Test Manager
3 1 (2.70%) ETL Tester
3 1 (2.70%) Portfolio Manager
3 1 (2.70%) Portfolio Test Manager
3 1 (2.70%) SAP Manager
3 1 (2.70%) SAP Test Manager
3 1 (2.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 31 (83.78%) Analogue Electronics
2 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.70%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
1 2 (5.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (83.78%) Project Management
1 31 (83.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (8.11%) Performance Testing
2 3 (8.11%) Test Management
3 2 (5.41%) Coaching
3 2 (5.41%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (5.41%) Data Integration
3 2 (5.41%) Defect Management
3 2 (5.41%) ETL
3 2 (5.41%) ITIL
3 2 (5.41%) PRINCE2
3 2 (5.41%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (5.41%) Validation
4 1 (2.70%) Agile
4 1 (2.70%) Benchmarking
4 1 (2.70%) ERP
4 1 (2.70%) QA Automation
4 1 (2.70%) Regression Testing
4 1 (2.70%) Scrum
4 1 (2.70%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.41%) Java
1 2 (5.41%) Python
1 2 (5.41%) SQL
2 1 (2.70%) Scala
2 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (86.49%) SC Cleared
1 32 (86.49%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) ISTQB
2 2 (5.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.70%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (2.70%) HP
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.70%) SAP
1 1 (2.70%) ScienceLogic
1 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow