Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Test Strategy
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 2.56% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Suffolk median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36 44 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 92.31% 84.62% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 22 66
10th Percentile £272 £300 £256
25th Percentile £318 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -7.89% -17.39%
75th Percentile £523 £534 £700
90th Percentile £550 £549 £745
Suffolk median daily rate £375 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -16.67% -5.26% -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £15.84 - -
25th Percentile £16.36 £14.05 £13.50
Median hourly rate £17.46 £14.60 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.59% +4.29% -
75th Percentile £18.32 £15.15 £14.50
90th Percentile £18.68 - -
Suffolk median hourly rate £23.75 £14.60 £14.00
% change year-on-year +62.67% +4.29% -

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Ipswich

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Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
1 1 (100.00%) Newman
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) TestCafe
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Taurus
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform