Test Strategy Contracts in the North East

Test Strategy
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 35 54
Rank change year-on-year +1 +19 -6
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.55% 0.59% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 0.74% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £366 £386 £370
25th Percentile £382 £392 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £408 £400
Median % change year-on-year +27.61% +1.88% -15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £417 £513
90th Percentile - £419 £580
England median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +1.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 263 272 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.68% 80.00% 91.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 126 300
10th Percentile £225 £240 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £648 £663 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 48 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.97 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £16.48 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% -59.56% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £48.75 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the North East over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Tyne and Wear 0 5 £520 +27.61% 8
Test Strategy
England

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
1 3 (60.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Software Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) API Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Packer
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform