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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 55 67
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 +11
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 9 15 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.78% 1.85% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.18% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 18
10th Percentile £263 £472 £476
25th Percentile £279 £517 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £550 £638
Median % change year-on-year -20.91% -13.73% +18.60%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £732
90th Percentile £543 - £743
West Yorkshire median daily rate £435 £550 £618
% change year-on-year -20.91% -10.93% +17.62%

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 472 688 1,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 93.28% 84.83% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 435 777
10th Percentile £285 £300 £386
25th Percentile £384 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £619 £641 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 27 13
10th Percentile £31.53 £11.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.62 £12.15 £15.75
Median hourly rate £33.11 £12.30 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.19% -35.26% -10.59%
75th Percentile £66.51 £14.55 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.74 £26.50 £62.20
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £18.50
% change year-on-year +76.70% -32.27% -1.07%

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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 26 June 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Cypress.io
1 4 (44.44%) Postman
1 4 (44.44%) Selenium
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 2 (22.22%) GitLab
3 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 2 (22.22%) JMeter
3 2 (22.22%) Maven
3 2 (22.22%) REST Assured
3 2 (22.22%) SoapUI
3 2 (22.22%) TestNG
4 1 (11.11%) JUnit
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Test Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) QA Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Test Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Migration Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Migration Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Migration Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Playwright
1 2 (22.22%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) API Testing
4 4 (44.44%) DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) TDD
5 3 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
6 2 (22.22%) Agile Project Management
6 2 (22.22%) BDD
6 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing
6 2 (22.22%) OWASP
6 2 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Project Management
6 2 (22.22%) Security Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
2 4 (44.44%) Accessibility
3 2 (22.22%) WCAG
4 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
4 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce