Test Strategy Contracts in Manchester

Test Strategy
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 83 90 120
Rank change year-on-year +7 +30 -36
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 15 28 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.98% 1.47% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.60% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 16
10th Percentile £393 £367 £331
25th Percentile £425 £407 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -12.50% +13.64%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £541
90th Percentile £520 £615 £581
North West median daily rate £450 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £39.68 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £42.37 -
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £45.05 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £42.37 -
% change year-on-year +65.23% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,332 1,752 2,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.12% 92.26% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 917 1,281 1,803
10th Percentile £313 £313 £258
25th Percentile £406 £413 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.94%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 66 49
10th Percentile £12.40 £15.75 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £36.15 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.08% +141.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.89 £23.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £34.00
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Manchester

Test Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Manchester

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Manchester over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Manchester

Test Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in Manchester

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
1 3 (20.00%) Selenium
2 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (13.33%) Gatling
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) JMeter
2 2 (13.33%) WebDriver
3 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (6.67%) GoCD
3 1 (6.67%) JUnit
General
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Java Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) PHP Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Android Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (13.33%) Kafka
1 2 (13.33%) React
1 2 (13.33%) Web Services
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.67%) Dagger
2 1 (6.67%) Jest
2 1 (6.67%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (6.67%) Node.js
2 1 (6.67%) Retrofit
2 1 (6.67%) RxJava
2 1 (6.67%) Spring
2 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cyberattack
1 2 (13.33%) Insider Threat
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
1 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Mac OS X
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (33.33%) Data Security
2 5 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (26.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 4 (26.67%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (20.00%) Coaching
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (20.00%) Runbook
5 2 (13.33%) API Integration
5 2 (13.33%) BDD
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (13.33%) Manual Testing
5 2 (13.33%) TDD
5 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (20.00%) PHP
4 2 (13.33%) Groovy
4 2 (13.33%) Scala
4 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
5 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) CISM
1 4 (26.67%) CISSP
1 4 (26.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (6.67%) ISEB
2 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (13.33%) QA
3 1 (6.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) HP
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce