Test Strategy Contracts in Leeds

Test Strategy
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 64 75
Rank change year-on-year +14 +11 -8
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 12 29 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.52% 2.17% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 2.39% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 23
10th Percentile £400 £488 £425
25th Percentile £467 £503 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +14.58% +16.36%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £511
90th Percentile £588 £743 £570
West Yorkshire median daily rate £517 £550 £480
% change year-on-year -6.00% +14.58% +16.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 682 1,215 1,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 86.66% 90.94% 91.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 869 1,052
10th Percentile £300 £388 £313
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% +9.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £663
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £535 £500
% change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 18
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.00 £19.40
25th Percentile £12.15 £15.94 £20.79
Median hourly rate £12.30 £38.25 £24.27
Median % change year-on-year -67.84% +57.59% +13.58%
75th Percentile £12.53 £68.44 £28.38
90th Percentile £14.82 £70.00 £28.90
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £12.53 £20.25 £18.00
% change year-on-year -38.12% +12.50% -21.74%

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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 6 May 2024.

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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Cucumber
1 5 (41.67%) JMeter
2 4 (33.33%) Selenium
3 3 (25.00%) JUnit
4 2 (16.67%) Cypress.io
4 2 (16.67%) Gatling
4 2 (16.67%) Git
4 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (16.67%) JIRA
4 2 (16.67%) Postman
4 2 (16.67%) WebDriver
5 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) QA Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) QA Test Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Test Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Programme Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Programme Test Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Gherkin
2 2 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (16.67%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Mac OS X
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Agile
1 11 (91.67%) Test Automation
2 6 (50.00%) Analytics
2 6 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 6 (50.00%) Scrum
2 6 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 6 (50.00%) User Stories
3 5 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (41.67%) TDD
4 3 (25.00%) API Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (25.00%) Functional Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (25.00%) System Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) Groovy
2 2 (16.67%) Scala
2 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (83.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft