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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 186 257
Rank change year-on-year -24 +71 +1
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 142 225 259
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.15% 1.29% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.45% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 145 190
10th Percentile £380 £375 £413
25th Percentile £413 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -0.91% -
75th Percentile £675 £625 £700
90th Percentile £773 £790 £738
England median daily rate £475 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -9.52% +1.65% -1.62%
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 £60.00 £62.55
% change year-on-year - -4.08% +140.58%

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 11,428 15,487 23,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.23% 88.63% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,717 11,108 17,077
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £700
90th Percentile £811 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 307 267
10th Percentile £15.91 £15.77 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.79 £20.00 £22.45
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -25.44% +2.55%
75th Percentile £50.69 £48.75 £63.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.85 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%

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

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in London over the 6 months to 20 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 20 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 32 £473 -10.00% 2
South London +7 2 £380 -33.91% 1
West London +6 1 £450 +7.14% 1
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 5 (3.52%) Confluence
2 3 (2.11%) CMS
2 3 (2.11%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.70%) IBM HTTP Server
3 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 5 (3.52%) Endur
1 5 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.11%) NetSuite
2 3 (2.11%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.70%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.70%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.70%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 30 (21.13%) Azure
2 25 (17.61%) AWS
3 21 (14.79%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (7.75%) Power Platform
5 8 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (5.63%) PowerApps
6 7 (4.93%) Power Automate
7 5 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.52%) SaaS
8 2 (1.41%) GCP
8 2 (1.41%) GitHub
8 2 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.41%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (1.41%) Twilio
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.70%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.70%) OCI
9 1 (0.70%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.70%) OpenShift
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%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.70%) Big Data
3 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (23.94%) JIRA
2 24 (16.90%) Selenium
3 19 (13.38%) Jenkins
4 18 (12.68%) REST Assured
5 16 (11.27%) Postman
6 14 (9.86%) Git
7 13 (9.15%) JMeter
8 9 (6.34%) Cucumber
9 8 (5.63%) Cypress.io
9 8 (5.63%) LoadRunner
10 6 (4.23%) Gatling
11 4 (2.82%) Bitbucket
11 4 (2.82%) GitLab
12 3 (2.11%) JUnit
13 2 (1.41%) Appium
13 2 (1.41%) MSTest
13 2 (1.41%) NSubstitute
13 2 (1.41%) NUnit
13 2 (1.41%) TeamCity
13 2 (1.41%) TestNG
General
1 67 (47.18%) Social Skills
2 41 (28.87%) Finance
3 23 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (16.20%) Banking
4 11 (7.75%) Front Office
5 8 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.52%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.11%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (2.11%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.11%) Law
7 3 (2.11%) Legal
8 2 (1.41%) Billing
8 2 (1.41%) Marketing
8 2 (1.41%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.41%) Retail
9 1 (0.70%) Back Office
9 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Police
9 1 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (25.35%) Test Manager
2 28 (19.72%) Senior
3 24 (16.90%) Lead
4 22 (15.49%) Analyst
5 21 (14.79%) Test Engineer
6 19 (13.38%) Test Leader
7 13 (9.15%) Senior Test Engineer
8 11 (7.75%) Business Analyst
9 10 (7.04%) Test Analyst
10 9 (6.34%) QA Engineer
10 9 (6.34%) Tester
11 8 (5.63%) Developer
12 7 (4.93%) Programme Test Manager
12 7 (4.93%) Python Engineer
12 7 (4.93%) Test Programme Manager
13 6 (4.23%) Finance Manager
13 6 (4.23%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (4.23%) Test Automation Engineer
14 5 (3.52%) Consultant
14 5 (3.52%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.86%) REST
2 7 (4.93%) pytest
3 6 (4.23%) React
4 5 (3.52%) GraphQL
4 5 (3.52%) Jest
4 5 (3.52%) Playwright
5 4 (2.82%) Node.js
5 4 (2.82%) SailPoint
6 3 (2.11%) .NET
6 3 (2.11%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (1.41%) Gherkin
8 1 (0.70%) CSS
8 1 (0.70%) HTML
8 1 (0.70%) Material-UI
8 1 (0.70%) Next.js
8 1 (0.70%) Prophet
8 1 (0.70%) Spring
8 1 (0.70%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.70%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.04%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.52%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (3.52%) Low-Code
3 4 (2.82%) FMCG
3 4 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.11%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.11%) Market Risk
4 3 (2.11%) State Machine
4 3 (2.11%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.41%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.41%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.41%) Derivative
5 2 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.41%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (1.41%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.70%) CCTV
6 1 (0.70%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.75%) Windows
2 5 (3.52%) Linux
3 2 (1.41%) Unix
4 1 (0.70%) Android
4 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (50.70%) Test Automation
2 51 (35.92%) Agile
3 47 (33.10%) CI/CD
4 43 (30.28%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (29.58%) DevOps
6 35 (24.65%) User Acceptance Testing
7 31 (21.83%) Stakeholder Management
7 31 (21.83%) Test Scripting
8 22 (15.49%) API Testing
8 22 (15.49%) Test Management
9 20 (14.08%) Performance Testing
9 20 (14.08%) Software Testing
10 18 (12.68%) Validation
11 17 (11.97%) Defect Management
11 17 (11.97%) Scrum
11 17 (11.97%) System Integration Testing
12 15 (10.56%) Test Planning
13 14 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (9.86%) Regression Testing
14 13 (9.15%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.61%) Python
2 21 (14.79%) Java
3 12 (8.45%) SQL
4 9 (6.34%) 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%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.70%) R
9 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (11.97%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.27%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.04%) Degree
4 5 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.52%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.41%) CBAP
6 2 (1.41%) CISA
6 2 (1.41%) CRISC
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (28.87%) QA
2 4 (2.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.11%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.11%) GDPR
4 2 (1.41%) Accessibility
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 4 (2.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (9.15%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.70%) Ansible
3 1 (0.70%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (9.15%) HP
2 12 (8.45%) SAP
3 10 (7.04%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.04%) Oracle
3 10 (7.04%) Workday
4 5 (3.52%) CyberArk
4 5 (3.52%) Murex
5 4 (2.82%) Databricks
5 4 (2.82%) ION Trading
6 3 (2.11%) Google
6 3 (2.11%) Informatica
6 3 (2.11%) Solace
7 2 (1.41%) Avaya
7 2 (1.41%) Talend
8 1 (0.70%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.70%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (0.70%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.70%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.70%) New Relic
8 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow