Test Strategy Contracts in the North West

Test Strategy
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 131 149
Rank change year-on-year +11 +18 -39
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 15 27 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.56% 0.87% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.95% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 21
10th Percentile £391 £398 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +26.67%
75th Percentile £503 £575 £538
90th Percentile £524 £610 £575
England median daily rate £525 £525 £523
% change year-on-year - +0.48% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £39.68 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £42.37 -
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £45.05 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.55 £30.50
% change year-on-year +3.92% +105.08% -32.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,301 2,831 3,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.18% 90.71% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 2,009 2,591
10th Percentile £306 £313 £250
25th Percentile £405 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 137 159
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.45 £23.15 £14.13
Median hourly rate £23.48 £36.00 £20.13
Median % change year-on-year -34.79% +78.84% +9.28%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £43.13
90th Percentile £60.38 £66.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the North West over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Manchester +12 14 £450 +2.86% 7
Cheshire +3 1 - - 1
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Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (13.33%) Gatling
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) JMeter
2 2 (13.33%) Selenium
2 2 (13.33%) WebDriver
3 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (6.67%) GoCD
3 1 (6.67%) JUnit
General
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Java Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Test Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) PHP Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Android Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (13.33%) Kafka
1 2 (13.33%) React
1 2 (13.33%) Web Services
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.67%) Dagger
2 1 (6.67%) Jest
2 1 (6.67%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (6.67%) Node.js
2 1 (6.67%) Retrofit
2 1 (6.67%) RxJava
2 1 (6.67%) Spring
2 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cyberattack
1 2 (13.33%) Insider Threat
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
1 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Mac OS X
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (33.33%) Data Security
2 5 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (26.67%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 4 (26.67%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (20.00%) Coaching
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (20.00%) Runbook
5 2 (13.33%) API Integration
5 2 (13.33%) BDD
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (13.33%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis
5 2 (13.33%) Manual Testing
5 2 (13.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (20.00%) PHP
4 2 (13.33%) Groovy
4 2 (13.33%) Scala
4 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
5 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) CISM
1 4 (26.67%) CISSP
1 4 (26.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (20.00%) QA
3 1 (6.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce