Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Test Strategy
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 43 59
Rank change year-on-year -19 +16 +1
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 2 3 11
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.30% 0.77% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.88% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £511
25th Percentile £613 - £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £556
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.14%
75th Percentile £638 - £617
90th Percentile - - £637
East of England median daily rate £633 £910 £581
% change year-on-year -30.44% +56.56% +6.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
East of England median hourly rate - £85.00 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 581 339 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 87.37% 87.37% 87.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 136 303
10th Percentile £194 £263 £290
25th Percentile £411 £353 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.19% -2.95% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £720 £675 £760
East of England median daily rate £478 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +0.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 84 152
10th Percentile £16.53 £16.45 £32.01
25th Percentile £18.50 £45.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.35% +0.77% -
75th Percentile £67.19 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £86.75 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £20.72 £32.89 £22.00
% change year-on-year -37.00% +49.50% -5.46%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Test Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

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 31 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
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £625 - 9
Welwyn Garden City - 1 - -
Test Strategy
East of England

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM