Test Strategy Contracts in the Midlands

Test Strategy
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 63 70
Rank change year-on-year -35 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 37 122 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.35% 3.52% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 3.99% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 93 119
10th Percentile £301 £421 £402
25th Percentile £358 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £540 £515
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +4.85% +27.16%
75th Percentile £519 - £540
90th Percentile £706 £600 £563
England median daily rate £525 £533 £518
% change year-on-year -1.50% +2.90% +11.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
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
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,247 3,061 4,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.13% 88.39% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,501 2,132 3,341
10th Percentile £235 £250 £233
25th Percentile £356 £370 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 120 155
10th Percentile £11.09 £11.80 £10.20
25th Percentile £13.96 £15.00 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.64 £22.00
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.25 £33.30
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

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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 24 April 2024.

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 24 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
West Midlands -36 28 £379 -29.81% 13
East Midlands +12 9 £422 -37.23% 4
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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 (2.70%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (32.43%) Azure
2 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.70%) Boomi
4 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.70%) SaaS
4 1 (2.70%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) Amazon Redshift
1 9 (24.32%) MySQL
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (29.73%) Git
2 4 (10.81%) JIRA
2 4 (10.81%) Selenium
3 3 (8.11%) Cucumber
3 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.41%) Maven
4 2 (5.41%) REST Assured
4 2 (5.41%) TestNG
5 1 (2.70%) Postman
5 1 (2.70%) SoapUI
General
1 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Test Manager
2 6 (16.22%) Analyst
2 6 (16.22%) Test Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Architect
3 5 (13.51%) Automation Tester
3 5 (13.51%) Tester
4 4 (10.81%) Lead
4 4 (10.81%) Test Leader
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Test Manager
5 3 (8.11%) Network Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (8.11%) Network Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Test Assurance Manager
7 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 1 (2.70%) QA Automation Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) QA Automation Tester
7 1 (2.70%) Talend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) CSS
1 2 (5.41%) HTML
1 2 (5.41%) JSON
1 2 (5.41%) Web Services
1 2 (5.41%) XML
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Agile
2 14 (37.84%) Scrum
3 11 (29.73%) Test Automation
4 10 (27.03%) User Acceptance Testing
5 9 (24.32%) Analytics
5 9 (24.32%) Configuration Management
5 9 (24.32%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (24.32%) Dashboard Development
5 9 (24.32%) Data Analytics
5 9 (24.32%) Data Extraction
5 9 (24.32%) End-to-End Testing
5 9 (24.32%) ETL
5 9 (24.32%) Process Improvement
5 9 (24.32%) Requirements Gathering
5 9 (24.32%) Software Engineering
6 8 (21.62%) DevOps
6 8 (21.62%) Software Testing
7 7 (18.92%) Functional Testing
7 7 (18.92%) Scenario Testing
7 7 (18.92%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.11%) SQL
2 2 (5.41%) Java
2 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.70%) ProC
Qualifications
1 14 (37.84%) Security Cleared
2 13 (35.14%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) ISTQB
4 3 (8.11%) Degree
4 3 (8.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 3 (8.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (5.41%) ISEB
5 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (29.73%) QA
2 4 (10.81%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (5.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) Grafana
2 3 (8.11%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 9 (24.32%) Denodo
1 9 (24.32%) Talend
2 8 (21.62%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.11%) HP
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.41%) SAP
4 2 (5.41%) VMware
5 1 (2.70%) Dell
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle