Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Test Strategy
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 1.50% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £418 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £499 - -
90th Percentile £513 - -
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £450 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 154 123 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 77.00% 87.23% 84.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 65 83
10th Percentile £190 £313 £315
25th Percentile £313 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £625
90th Percentile £628 £575 £720
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 2 9
10th Percentile £12.95 £14.70 £9.93
25th Percentile £15.34 £14.76 £14.72
Median hourly rate £16.35 £14.95 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.36% -0.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £16.50 £15.06 £18.75
90th Percentile £17.87 £15.09 £26.50
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £23.80 £15.00
% change year-on-year -31.30% +58.67% +31.58%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Nottingham

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Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Test Strategy

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Hourly Rate Trend in Nottingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Test Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Test Strategy

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
1 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior .NET Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior C# .NET Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior C# Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Enzyme
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) Jest
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) Redux
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Code
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) A/B Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) AI
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
1 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) System Testing
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle