Test Strategy Contracts in Milton Keynes

Test Strategy
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 23 42 70
Rank change year-on-year +19 +28 -1
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 8 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 4.62% 0.51% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 0.60% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 5
10th Percentile £384 - -
25th Percentile £408 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £585 £475
Median % change year-on-year -27.35% +23.16% -
75th Percentile £450 - £494
90th Percentile £456 - £498
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £585 £481
% change year-on-year -27.35% +21.56% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 331 717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 93.64% 84.87% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 240 583
10th Percentile £292 £280 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £599 £590 £573
90th Percentile £650 £703 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £501 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 21 1
10th Percentile £13.68 £15.85 -
25th Percentile £14.69 £17.64 £9.50
Median hourly rate £17.25 £23.22 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.69% +132.15% -7.15%
75th Percentile £28.81 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £43.78 £48.75 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
% change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Milton Keynes

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Milton Keynes

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 3 (37.50%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
1 2 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Test Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Test Leader
1 2 (25.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Governance Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Manual Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Strategy Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 4 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Test Assurance
2 3 (37.50%) Test Management
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (25.00%) Logistics
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (12.50%) Demand Management
4 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Resource Management
4 1 (12.50%) Traceability Matrix
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle