Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Test Strategy
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 1.58% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £435 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £513 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £421 £525 -
% change year-on-year -19.81% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 148 121 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 77.89% 80.67% 80.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 66 107
10th Percentile £166 £313 £290
25th Percentile £300 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £559 £569 £650
90th Percentile £715 £606 £745
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £430 £475
% change year-on-year -2.33% -9.47% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 4 9
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.79 £10.77
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.99 £14.75
Median hourly rate £16.35 £23.80 £21.52
Median % change year-on-year -31.30% +10.62% +95.59%
75th Percentile £17.87 £54.56 £88.75
90th Percentile - £92.03 £93.75
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £21.52
% change year-on-year -14.40% +2.46% +27.84%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

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

Test Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Nottingham - 3 £468 - 3
Test Strategy
East Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
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
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) ETRM Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
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
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
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) A/B Testing
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) ETRM
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) EMIR
1 1 (33.33%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Trayport