Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in North Yorkshire

Test Strategy
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in North Yorkshire requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in North Yorkshire 2.27% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £366 - -
25th Percentile £381 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £444 - -
90th Percentile £459 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £432 £408 £490
% change year-on-year +6.07% -16.79% -18.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North Yorkshire

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 North Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72 73 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 81.82% 73.00% 72.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 33 82
10th Percentile £120 £203 £167
25th Percentile £153 £300 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £500 £550 £500
90th Percentile £650 £638 £609
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £477 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -4.60% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 6
10th Percentile £18.27 £11.45 £19.13
25th Percentile - £13.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.71% -20.45% +9.32%
75th Percentile £28.51 £18.69 -
90th Percentile £52.90 £18.73 £33.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +11.78% +5.58% +1.48%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Strategy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire.

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing Test Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing Test Strategy

Test Strategy
Contract Job Locations in North Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Middlesbrough - 1 £463 -
Test Strategy
Yorkshire

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (50.00%) TestRail
2 1 (50.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft