Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Slough

Test Strategy
Berkshire > Slough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Slough requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 9 16
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 +12
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 1 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in Slough 1.82% 8.45% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 9.68% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £358
25th Percentile £368 - £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.91%
75th Percentile £404 - £444
90th Percentile - - £463
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Slough

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 Slough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49 62 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Slough 89.09% 87.32% 92.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 44 58
10th Percentile £269 £190 £280
25th Percentile £453 £284 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £591 £609 £561
90th Percentile £683 £688 £641
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £18.22 - -
25th Percentile £20.09 - £24.34
Median hourly rate £20.79 £24.66 £25.12
Median % change year-on-year -15.69% -1.81% +14.16%
75th Percentile - - £25.89
90th Percentile £21.60 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.75 £61.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year -4.46% +0.81% -5.68%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Slough

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Slough

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Slough

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

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

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Slough 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) RSVP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IP Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Fault Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BT
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper