Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Preston

Test Strategy
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 4.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £407 - -
25th Percentile £412 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 - -
75th Percentile £586 - -
90th Percentile £611 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £481 - £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £72.66 - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £72.66 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 150 72 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 81.08% 92.31% 79.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 47 21
10th Percentile £310 £344 £200
25th Percentile £463 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £455 £575
Median % change year-on-year +20.88% -20.87% +29.58%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £627
90th Percentile £688 £674 £975
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +12.82% +2.63% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 6
10th Percentile £37.25 £23.32 £24.48
25th Percentile £60.00 £26.88 £25.98
Median hourly rate £70.00 £41.06 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.48% +26.34% -29.16%
75th Percentile £76.33 £47.12 £48.16
90th Percentile £80.00 £61.47 £59.69
Lancashire median hourly rate £56.44 £47.12 £40.33
% change year-on-year +19.78% +16.85% -12.68%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Preston

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Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Preston over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Preston

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Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SAS
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure AI
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
1 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (12.50%) Big Data
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Test Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) CMDB
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Validation
2 6 (75.00%) ITSM
2 6 (75.00%) SIAM
2 6 (75.00%) Verification and Validation
2 6 (75.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 5 (62.50%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) AI
5 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Data Management
5 1 (12.50%) Dimensional Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) ETL
5 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Load Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Quality Management
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle