Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Test Strategy
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.44% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £775 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
75th Percentile £825 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £430 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -4.44% -14.29% +26.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 353 128 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 78.44% 88.28% 72.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 77 78
10th Percentile £226 £174 £178
25th Percentile £406 £250 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% -
75th Percentile £675 £550 £509
90th Percentile £793 £680 £641
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 14 6
10th Percentile £12.84 £19.15 £13.83
25th Percentile £14.25 - £17.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.59% -1.35% -21.12%
75th Percentile £53.75 £81.63 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £89.63 £80.63
South East median hourly rate £47.77 £22.35 £58.38
% change year-on-year +113.78% -61.72% +7.37%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java