Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Solihull

Test Strategy
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Solihull requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Solihull 2.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £463 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £474 £500 £358
% change year-on-year -5.30% +39.66% -33.46%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 80 48 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 84.21% 94.12% 85.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 28 42
10th Percentile £304 £220 £264
25th Percentile £405 £308 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £423 £375
Median % change year-on-year +13.14% +12.67% -28.57%
75th Percentile £513 £556 £388
90th Percentile £682 £596 £552
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £24.00 - -
25th Percentile £25.58 - £15.00
Median hourly rate £28.40 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £37.46 - £17.00
90th Percentile £40.03 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £19.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +78.89% -15.56% +3.73%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Solihull

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

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

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull 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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Test Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium Automation Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus