Test Strategy Contracts in London

Test Strategy
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 212 174 254
Rank change year-on-year -38 +80 +8
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 142 242 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.13% 1.36% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.53% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 158 196
10th Percentile £380 £375 £413
25th Percentile £408 £451 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £660 £638 £713
90th Percentile £736 £800 £748
England median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £78.75
25th Percentile - - £80.63
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £88.13
90th Percentile - - £89.25
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £58.94
% change year-on-year -4.00% +6.04% +93.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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

Test Strategy
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 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in London

Test Strategy
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 2025. 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 -2 35 £498 -5.24% 8
South London - 3 £380 - 2
West London +6 1 £450 +7.14% 4
Test Strategy
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 4 (2.82%) Confluence
2 3 (2.11%) CMS
2 3 (2.11%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.41%) WordPress
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (4.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.82%) Endur
3 3 (2.11%) NetSuite
3 3 (2.11%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.70%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.70%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.70%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 26 (18.31%) AWS
1 26 (18.31%) Azure
2 16 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (5.63%) Power Platform
4 5 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.52%) Power Automate
4 5 (3.52%) PowerApps
5 4 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (2.82%) SaaS
6 3 (2.11%) GCP
6 3 (2.11%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (2.11%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (1.41%) GitHub
7 2 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.41%) Twilio
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.70%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) 5G
1 1 (0.70%) Firewall
1 1 (0.70%) LAN
1 1 (0.70%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (0.70%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.70%) WAN
1 1 (0.70%) WebEx
1 1 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (0.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.82%) Power BI
2 2 (1.41%) MySQL
2 2 (1.41%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.70%) Big Data
3 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (22.54%) JIRA
2 26 (18.31%) Selenium
3 22 (15.49%) Jenkins
4 18 (12.68%) REST Assured
5 16 (11.27%) Git
5 16 (11.27%) Postman
6 14 (9.86%) JMeter
7 10 (7.04%) Cypress.io
8 9 (6.34%) Cucumber
9 7 (4.93%) Gatling
9 7 (4.93%) LoadRunner
10 5 (3.52%) Bitbucket
10 5 (3.52%) GitLab
11 3 (2.11%) JUnit
12 2 (1.41%) MSTest
12 2 (1.41%) NSubstitute
12 2 (1.41%) NUnit
12 2 (1.41%) PHPUnit
12 2 (1.41%) TeamCity
12 2 (1.41%) TestNG
General
1 63 (44.37%) Social Skills
2 40 (28.17%) Finance
3 25 (17.61%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (15.49%) Banking
5 10 (7.04%) Front Office
6 6 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.82%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.11%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (2.11%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.11%) Law
9 3 (2.11%) Legal
9 3 (2.11%) Retail
10 2 (1.41%) Marketing
10 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Billing
11 1 (0.70%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.70%) Police
11 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (21.83%) Test Manager
2 30 (21.13%) Senior
3 24 (16.90%) Lead
4 21 (14.79%) Analyst
4 21 (14.79%) Test Engineer
5 19 (13.38%) Test Leader
6 14 (9.86%) Senior Test Engineer
7 10 (7.04%) Business Analyst
7 10 (7.04%) QA Engineer
7 10 (7.04%) Test Analyst
8 9 (6.34%) Developer
8 9 (6.34%) Tester
9 7 (4.93%) Python Engineer
10 6 (4.23%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (4.23%) Test Automation Engineer
11 5 (3.52%) Consultant
11 5 (3.52%) Finance Manager
11 5 (3.52%) Programme Test Manager
11 5 (3.52%) Test Programme Manager
12 4 (2.82%) Workday Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.86%) REST
2 7 (4.93%) Jest
2 7 (4.93%) Playwright
2 7 (4.93%) pytest
3 6 (4.23%) React
4 5 (3.52%) GraphQL
5 4 (2.82%) Node.js
5 4 (2.82%) SailPoint
6 3 (2.11%) .NET
6 3 (2.11%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.70%) CSS
7 1 (0.70%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.70%) HTML
7 1 (0.70%) Kafka
7 1 (0.70%) Material-UI
7 1 (0.70%) Next.js
7 1 (0.70%) Prophet
7 1 (0.70%) Spring
7 1 (0.70%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.70%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.04%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.82%) FMCG
3 4 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.11%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.11%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.11%) State Machine
4 3 (2.11%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.41%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.41%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.41%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.41%) Derivative
5 2 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.41%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.41%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (1.41%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.70%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.63%) Windows
2 6 (4.23%) Linux
3 2 (1.41%) Unix
4 1 (0.70%) Android
4 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 47 (33.10%) Agile
3 45 (31.69%) CI/CD
4 42 (29.58%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (25.35%) DevOps
6 32 (22.54%) User Acceptance Testing
7 30 (21.13%) Test Scripting
8 29 (20.42%) Stakeholder Management
9 25 (17.61%) Software Testing
10 24 (16.90%) API Testing
11 18 (12.68%) Performance Testing
11 18 (12.68%) Test Management
12 17 (11.97%) System Integration Testing
13 16 (11.27%) Defect Management
13 16 (11.27%) Scrum
13 16 (11.27%) Validation
14 15 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (10.56%) Integration Testing
15 14 (9.86%) BDD
15 14 (9.86%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 26 (18.31%) Python
2 23 (16.20%) Java
3 12 (8.45%) SQL
4 10 (7.04%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.63%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.82%) VBA
7 3 (2.11%) C#
8 2 (1.41%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.41%) RPG
9 1 (0.70%) ABAP
9 1 (0.70%) Go
9 1 (0.70%) Groovy
9 1 (0.70%) Perl
9 1 (0.70%) PHP
9 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.70%) R
9 1 (0.70%) Ruby
9 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (14.08%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.45%) Degree
4 6 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.52%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.41%) CBAP
7 2 (1.41%) CISA
7 2 (1.41%) CRISC
7 2 (1.41%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.70%) ISEB
8 1 (0.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (30.99%) QA
2 4 (2.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.11%) GDPR
4 2 (1.41%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.41%) GRC
4 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.41%) ITGC
4 2 (1.41%) SOX 404
5 1 (0.70%) IFRS
5 1 (0.70%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.70%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.70%) NIST
5 1 (0.70%) SEPA
5 1 (0.70%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (3.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (7.04%) HP ALM
2 3 (2.11%) Ansible
2 3 (2.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.41%) Terraform
4 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (11.27%) SAP
2 10 (7.04%) HP
3 9 (6.34%) Oracle
3 9 (6.34%) Workday
4 7 (4.93%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.82%) CyberArk
5 4 (2.82%) Databricks
5 4 (2.82%) ION Trading
5 4 (2.82%) Murex
6 3 (2.11%) Google
6 3 (2.11%) Informatica
6 3 (2.11%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.11%) Solace
7 2 (1.41%) Avaya
7 2 (1.41%) Talend
8 1 (0.70%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.70%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.70%) New Relic
8 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.70%) Splunk