Test Strategy Contracts in the Midlands

Test Strategy
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 59 92 69
Rank change year-on-year +33 -23 +3
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 54 41 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.82% 1.49% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.22% 1.81% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 28 87
10th Percentile £338 £320 £417
25th Percentile £425 £358 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £390 £538
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% -27.51% +4.98%
75th Percentile £538 £506 £540
90th Percentile £581 £674 £600
England median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £28.18 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.76% - -
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
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +26 45 £507 +41.36% 17
East Midlands +10 9 £386 -8.42% 8
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (1.85%) Confluence
1 1 (1.85%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (31.48%) Azure
2 14 (25.93%) Power Platform
3 13 (24.07%) PowerApps
4 3 (5.56%) SaaS
5 2 (3.70%) AWS
5 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.70%) BrowserStack
5 2 (3.70%) GCP
5 2 (3.70%) GitHub
5 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.85%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (1.85%) Converged Networks
1 1 (1.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.85%) IDMS
2 1 (1.85%) Power BI
2 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (29.63%) JIRA
2 5 (9.26%) Cypress.io
2 5 (9.26%) Git
3 3 (5.56%) Plastic SCM
3 3 (5.56%) Selenium
4 2 (3.70%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.70%) JMeter
4 2 (3.70%) Postman
4 2 (3.70%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.85%) CA Gen
5 1 (1.85%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.85%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.85%) Toad
5 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.85%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.85%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (53.70%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (7.41%) Finance
3 4 (7.41%) Retail
4 3 (5.56%) Games
5 2 (3.70%) Automotive
5 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) Lead
2 10 (18.52%) Developer
3 8 (14.81%) Technical Leader
4 7 (12.96%) Analyst
4 7 (12.96%) Test Manager
5 6 (11.11%) Tester
6 5 (9.26%) OAT Analyst
6 5 (9.26%) Power Platform Developer
7 3 (5.56%) ERP Manager
7 3 (5.56%) Games Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior
7 3 (5.56%) Test Leader
8 2 (3.70%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Project Manager
8 2 (3.70%) QA Leader
8 2 (3.70%) QA Manager
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Telecoms Manager
8 2 (3.70%) Test Analyst
8 2 (3.70%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) Middleware
2 4 (7.41%) RESTful
3 3 (5.56%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 2 (3.70%) Node.js
4 2 (3.70%) React
4 2 (3.70%) XML
5 1 (1.85%) .NET
5 1 (1.85%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.85%) JSON
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) SCADA
2 8 (14.81%) Product Ownership
3 6 (11.11%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.70%) Infotainment
4 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.85%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Unix
2 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (57.41%) Agile
2 22 (40.74%) DevOps
3 17 (31.48%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (24.07%) Configuration Management
4 13 (24.07%) Process Improvement
4 13 (24.07%) Test Management
5 12 (22.22%) Data Modelling
5 12 (22.22%) OO
5 12 (22.22%) Problem Management
5 12 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 11 (20.37%) Scenario Testing
7 10 (18.52%) CI/CD
7 10 (18.52%) Defect Management
8 7 (12.96%) Scrum
8 7 (12.96%) System Integration Testing
8 7 (12.96%) User Experience
9 6 (11.11%) Integration Testing
9 6 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (11.11%) User Stories
9 6 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (33.33%) SQL
2 7 (12.96%) Python
3 5 (9.26%) JavaScript
3 5 (9.26%) TypeScript
4 4 (7.41%) C#
5 2 (3.70%) Go
6 1 (1.85%) COBOL
6 1 (1.85%) Java
6 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.70%) Degree
2 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) ISEB
2 2 (3.70%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (1.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.22%) QA
2 3 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.70%) COSHH
3 2 (3.70%) ISO 14001
4 1 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (3.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) HP ALM
2 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Oracle
2 6 (11.11%) MuleSoft
3 5 (9.26%) HP
4 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.70%) Nintex
5 2 (3.70%) SAP
6 1 (1.85%) Cisco
6 1 (1.85%) Meraki
6 1 (1.85%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.85%) webMethods