Test Strategy Contracts in London

Test Strategy
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 251 267
Rank change year-on-year +68 +16 -46
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 244 266 410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.37% 0.99% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.08% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 196 274
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
25th Percentile £452 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £649
90th Percentile £800 £748 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £518
% change year-on-year - +1.35% +11.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £58.94 £30.50
% change year-on-year +6.04% +93.24% -32.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,773 24,560 35,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.57% 91.07% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,303 17,658 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 275 427
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.57 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.77 £63.22 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.88 £77.30 £67.75
England median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
Central London +48 41 £525 -22.22% 5
West London +24 7 £420 - 1
East London - 6 £688 - 3
South London - 1 £575 - 2
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England

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (3.28%) MTS
2 7 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.46%) Confluence
3 6 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.82%) Apache
4 2 (0.82%) CMS
4 2 (0.82%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (2.46%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (6.15%) Oracle Applications
2 8 (3.28%) Aligne
2 8 (3.28%) Endur
2 8 (3.28%) EuroRunner
3 7 (2.87%) Loan IQ
4 5 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (1.64%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (1.23%) Oracle AGIS
6 3 (1.23%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (1.23%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (1.23%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.82%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payroll
8 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.41%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 63 (25.82%) Azure
2 36 (14.75%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (9.84%) AWS
4 23 (9.43%) Power Platform
5 20 (8.20%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (6.56%) Azure API Management
6 16 (6.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 16 (6.56%) OCI
7 10 (4.10%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 9 (3.69%) Oracle CX
9 8 (3.28%) SaaS
10 6 (2.46%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.46%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.46%) PowerApps
11 5 (2.05%) GCP
12 4 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.64%) IaaS
12 4 (1.64%) PaaS
12 4 (1.64%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.23%) Internet
1 3 (1.23%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.82%) HTTP
3 1 (0.41%) Firewall
3 1 (0.41%) Network Security
3 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.41%) WAN
3 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.61%) Power BI
2 15 (6.15%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (3.28%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.87%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.64%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.64%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.23%) MySQL
8 2 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.82%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.82%) Looker
8 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.82%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.82%) Tableau
9 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.41%) HDInsight
9 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (13.11%) Selenium
2 23 (9.43%) Postman
3 22 (9.02%) Git
3 22 (9.02%) JIRA
3 22 (9.02%) SpecFlow
4 18 (7.38%) Cucumber
4 18 (7.38%) JMeter
5 17 (6.97%) LoadRunner
6 16 (6.56%) Appium
6 16 (6.56%) JUnit
7 15 (6.15%) WebDriver
8 13 (5.33%) REST Assured
9 12 (4.92%) TestNG
9 12 (4.92%) TestRail
10 10 (4.10%) eggPlant
10 10 (4.10%) SoapUI
10 10 (4.10%) SOAtest
11 9 (3.69%) Gatling
12 8 (3.28%) Visual Studio
13 7 (2.87%) NeoLoad
General
1 80 (32.79%) Finance
2 70 (28.69%) Social Skills
3 24 (9.84%) Banking
4 17 (6.97%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.74%) Back Office
6 14 (5.74%) Investment Banking
7 12 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (4.51%) Front Office
9 10 (4.10%) Legal
10 7 (2.87%) Retail
11 5 (2.05%) General Ledger
11 5 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.64%) Law
12 4 (1.64%) Marketing
12 4 (1.64%) Prime Brokerage
12 4 (1.64%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
13 3 (1.23%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.82%) Electronics
14 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 67 (27.46%) Lead
2 42 (17.21%) Test Manager
3 31 (12.70%) Test Leader
4 28 (11.48%) Analyst
5 25 (10.25%) Senior
6 20 (8.20%) Tester
7 12 (4.92%) Business Analyst
7 12 (4.92%) Consultant
7 12 (4.92%) Test Analyst
8 10 (4.10%) Architect
8 10 (4.10%) Project Manager
9 9 (3.69%) Senior Analyst
9 9 (3.69%) Test Engineer
10 7 (2.87%) Automation Tester
10 7 (2.87%) QA Leader
10 7 (2.87%) Senior Manager
10 7 (2.87%) Senior Test Analyst
11 6 (2.46%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (2.46%) Developer
11 6 (2.46%) Performance Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.43%) XML
2 20 (8.20%) .NET
3 14 (5.74%) REST
4 13 (5.33%) .NET Framework
5 8 (3.28%) Playwright
6 4 (1.64%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.64%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.64%) JSON
7 3 (1.23%) Gherkin
7 3 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.23%) React
7 3 (1.23%) React Native
8 2 (0.82%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.82%) FHIR
8 2 (0.82%) Middleware
8 2 (0.82%) SOAP
8 2 (0.82%) SwiftUI
8 2 (0.82%) UIKit
8 2 (0.82%) Web Services
9 1 (0.41%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.51%) Equities
1 11 (4.51%) Hedge funds
1 11 (4.51%) Mobile App
2 9 (3.69%) Market Risk
3 8 (3.28%) Renewable Energy
3 8 (3.28%) Solar Panel
4 6 (2.46%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.05%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.64%) Derivative
7 3 (1.23%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.23%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.23%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.23%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.23%) Wiki
8 2 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.82%) FMCG
8 2 (0.82%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.87%) Windows
2 6 (2.46%) Android
2 6 (2.46%) Linux
3 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.82%) Unix
4 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (38.11%) Test Automation
2 90 (36.89%) Agile
3 49 (20.08%) DevOps
4 48 (19.67%) CI/CD
5 47 (19.26%) User Acceptance Testing
6 38 (15.57%) Software Testing
7 36 (14.75%) System Integration Testing
8 34 (13.93%) Performance Testing
9 31 (12.70%) Migration
9 31 (12.70%) Test Scripting
10 30 (12.30%) Continuous Integration
11 29 (11.89%) Mentoring
11 29 (11.89%) Test Management
12 26 (10.66%) Project Management
13 25 (10.25%) Data Transformation
14 24 (9.84%) BDD
15 23 (9.43%) Business Intelligence
15 23 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (9.43%) Project Delivery
15 23 (9.43%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 51 (20.90%) C#
2 33 (13.52%) SQL
3 27 (11.07%) Java
4 20 (8.20%) Python
5 11 (4.51%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.87%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.64%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.23%) C
8 3 (1.23%) C++
9 2 (0.82%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.82%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.82%) R
9 2 (0.82%) Swift
Qualifications
1 31 (12.70%) Degree
2 26 (10.66%) Security Cleared
3 25 (10.25%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.56%) ISTQB
5 15 (6.15%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.46%) ISEB
7 5 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.41%) CCA
10 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.41%) PgMP
10 1 (0.41%) PhD
10 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.41%) PMP
10 1 (0.41%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (33.20%) QA
2 9 (3.69%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.87%) PMO
4 4 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.64%) SLA
5 2 (0.82%) HL7
5 2 (0.82%) WCAG
6 1 (0.41%) EMIR
6 1 (0.41%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) IFRS
6 1 (0.41%) MiFID
6 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (1.64%) Docker
2 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.23%) Kibana
3 1 (0.41%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.41%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (11.07%) Microsoft
1 27 (11.07%) Oracle
2 13 (5.33%) SAP
3 9 (3.69%) Splunk
4 5 (2.05%) Google
4 5 (2.05%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.64%) Adobe
5 4 (1.64%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (1.64%) HP
5 4 (1.64%) iManage
5 4 (1.64%) Intapp
5 4 (1.64%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.64%) Qualtrics
6 3 (1.23%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.23%) IBM
6 3 (1.23%) Okta
6 3 (1.23%) Ping Identity
6 3 (1.23%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.82%) Apple
8 1 (0.41%) Cognizant