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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 255 256
Rank change year-on-year +74 +1 -28
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 237 267 415
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.33% 0.98% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.07% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 198 279
10th Percentile £376 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £711 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £750
England median daily rate £525 £533 £518
% change year-on-year -1.50% +2.90% +11.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.55 £30.50
% change year-on-year -0.08% +105.08% -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 15,796 24,868 36,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 91.10% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,308 17,810 26,281
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
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 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 284 428
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.96 £22.72 £23.91
Median hourly rate £29.00 £39.00 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.64% +9.09% +10.96%
75th Percentile £47.50 £62.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £78.35 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +42 38 £525 -22.22% 4
West London +23 7 £420 - 3
East London - 7 £775 - 3
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 8 (3.38%) MTS
2 7 (2.95%) Confluence
3 6 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.84%) Apache
5 2 (0.84%) CMS
5 2 (0.84%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (2.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (6.33%) Oracle Applications
2 8 (3.38%) Aligne
2 8 (3.38%) Endur
2 8 (3.38%) EuroRunner
3 7 (2.95%) Loan IQ
4 5 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (1.69%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (1.27%) Oracle AGIS
6 3 (1.27%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (1.27%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (1.27%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (1.27%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (1.27%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.84%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payroll
8 1 (0.42%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.42%) SAP FSCM
8 1 (0.42%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 63 (26.58%) Azure
2 35 (14.77%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (9.28%) AWS
3 22 (9.28%) Power Platform
4 20 (8.44%) Dynamics 365
5 16 (6.75%) Azure API Management
5 16 (6.75%) Azure Logic Apps
5 16 (6.75%) OCI
6 10 (4.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 9 (3.80%) Oracle CX
8 8 (3.38%) SaaS
9 6 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (2.53%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.11%) GCP
10 5 (2.11%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.69%) IaaS
11 4 (1.69%) PaaS
11 4 (1.69%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.27%) Internet
1 3 (1.27%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.84%) HTTP
3 1 (0.42%) Firewall
3 1 (0.42%) Network Security
3 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.42%) WAN
3 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.44%) Power BI
2 15 (6.33%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (3.38%) Data Lake
3 8 (3.38%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.69%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.69%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.27%) MySQL
7 2 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.84%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.84%) Looker
7 2 (0.84%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.84%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.84%) Tableau
8 1 (0.42%) Big Data
8 1 (0.42%) HDInsight
8 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (11.81%) Selenium
2 24 (10.13%) SpecFlow
3 22 (9.28%) Git
3 22 (9.28%) JIRA
4 19 (8.02%) Postman
5 17 (7.17%) Cucumber
5 17 (7.17%) JMeter
6 16 (6.75%) LoadRunner
7 15 (6.33%) Appium
7 15 (6.33%) JUnit
8 14 (5.91%) WebDriver
9 13 (5.49%) REST Assured
10 11 (4.64%) TestNG
10 11 (4.64%) TestRail
11 10 (4.22%) eggPlant
11 10 (4.22%) SoapUI
11 10 (4.22%) SOAtest
12 8 (3.38%) Gatling
13 7 (2.95%) NeoLoad
13 7 (2.95%) Visual Studio
General
1 79 (33.33%) Finance
2 64 (27.00%) Social Skills
3 24 (10.13%) Banking
4 15 (6.33%) Investment Banking
4 15 (6.33%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.64%) Front Office
6 11 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.22%) Back Office
8 8 (3.38%) Legal
8 8 (3.38%) Retail
9 5 (2.11%) General Ledger
9 5 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.69%) Law
10 4 (1.69%) Marketing
10 4 (1.69%) Prime Brokerage
10 4 (1.69%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
11 3 (1.27%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.27%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (28.69%) Lead
2 37 (15.61%) Test Manager
3 32 (13.50%) Test Leader
4 26 (10.97%) Analyst
5 21 (8.86%) Senior
5 21 (8.86%) Tester
6 12 (5.06%) Business Analyst
7 11 (4.64%) Consultant
7 11 (4.64%) Project Manager
8 9 (3.80%) Architect
8 9 (3.80%) Test Analyst
9 8 (3.38%) Automation Tester
10 7 (2.95%) QA Leader
10 7 (2.95%) Test Engineer
11 6 (2.53%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (2.53%) Developer
11 6 (2.53%) Performance Test Leader
11 6 (2.53%) QA Tester
11 6 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (2.53%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.70%) XML
2 20 (8.44%) .NET
3 14 (5.91%) REST
4 13 (5.49%) .NET Framework
5 8 (3.38%) Playwright
6 4 (1.69%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.69%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.69%) JSON
7 3 (1.27%) Gherkin
7 3 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.27%) React
7 3 (1.27%) React Native
8 2 (0.84%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.84%) FHIR
8 2 (0.84%) Middleware
8 2 (0.84%) SOAP
8 2 (0.84%) SwiftUI
8 2 (0.84%) UIKit
8 2 (0.84%) Web Services
8 2 (0.84%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.49%) Hedge funds
2 11 (4.64%) Equities
3 9 (3.80%) Market Risk
4 8 (3.38%) Renewable Energy
4 8 (3.38%) Solar Panel
5 7 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.53%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.53%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.11%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.69%) Derivative
9 3 (1.27%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.27%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.27%) Wiki
10 2 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.84%) FMCG
10 2 (0.84%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.84%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.95%) Windows
2 6 (2.53%) Linux
3 2 (0.84%) Android
3 2 (0.84%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.84%) Unix
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (37.13%) Test Automation
2 82 (34.60%) Agile
3 49 (20.68%) User Acceptance Testing
4 46 (19.41%) DevOps
5 45 (18.99%) CI/CD
6 36 (15.19%) System Integration Testing
7 35 (14.77%) Software Testing
8 32 (13.50%) Migration
8 32 (13.50%) Test Scripting
9 31 (13.08%) Performance Testing
10 29 (12.24%) Mentoring
11 27 (11.39%) Project Management
12 26 (10.97%) Test Management
13 25 (10.55%) Continuous Integration
13 25 (10.55%) Data Transformation
14 24 (10.13%) SDLC
15 23 (9.70%) BDD
16 22 (9.28%) Business Intelligence
16 22 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (21.94%) C#
2 30 (12.66%) SQL
3 24 (10.13%) Java
4 17 (7.17%) Python
5 11 (4.64%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.53%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.27%) C
7 3 (1.27%) C++
8 2 (0.84%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.84%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.84%) R
8 2 (0.84%) Swift
Qualifications
1 30 (12.66%) Degree
2 25 (10.55%) Security Cleared
3 24 (10.13%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.33%) ISTQB
4 15 (6.33%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.11%) ISEB
5 5 (2.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.84%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.42%) CCA
9 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.42%) PgMP
9 1 (0.42%) PhD
9 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.42%) PMP
9 1 (0.42%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (33.33%) QA
2 9 (3.80%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.38%) PMO
4 4 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.69%) SLA
5 2 (0.84%) HL7
5 2 (0.84%) WCAG
6 1 (0.42%) EMIR
6 1 (0.42%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) IFRS
6 1 (0.42%) MiFID
6 1 (0.42%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (1.69%) Docker
2 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.27%) Kibana
3 1 (0.42%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (11.39%) Oracle
2 24 (10.13%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.49%) SAP
4 9 (3.80%) Splunk
5 5 (2.11%) Google
5 5 (2.11%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.69%) Adobe
6 4 (1.69%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (1.69%) iManage
6 4 (1.69%) Intapp
6 4 (1.69%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.69%) Qualtrics
7 3 (1.27%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.27%) HP
7 3 (1.27%) Okta
7 3 (1.27%) Ping Identity
7 3 (1.27%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.84%) Apple
8 2 (0.84%) IBM
9 1 (0.42%) Cognizant