Test Strategy Contracts in Leeds

Test Strategy
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 50 67
Rank change year-on-year -3 +17 +1
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 7 13 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.51% 1.63% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.88% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 22
10th Percentile - £400 £488
25th Percentile £263 £459 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £517 £550
Median % change year-on-year -46.81% -6.00% +15.18%
75th Percentile £400 £575 £600
90th Percentile £465 £581 £743
West Yorkshire median daily rate £275 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -45.03% -9.05% +15.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Cypress.io
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
1 5 (71.43%) Selenium
2 4 (57.14%) Postman
2 4 (57.14%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) QA Tester
1 5 (71.43%) Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Test Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Manual Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) QA Manual Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (14.29%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) API Testing
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Manual Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Agile Project Management
3 4 (57.14%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (57.14%) Non-Functional Testing
3 4 (57.14%) OWASP
3 4 (57.14%) Project Management
3 4 (57.14%) Security Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Black-Box Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Data Flow Diagram
5 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
5 1 (14.29%) Defect Tracking
5 1 (14.29%) SDLC
5 1 (14.29%) Test Planning
5 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) QA
2 4 (57.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce