Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in South London

Test Strategy
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 32 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 1 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.43% 2.26% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 2.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £380 -
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% - -
London median daily rate £513 £519 £575
% change year-on-year -1.20% -9.78% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 202 195 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 86.32% 88.24% 88.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 133 175
10th Percentile £328 £228 £188
25th Percentile £450 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £553 £600 £594
90th Percentile £640 £788 £668
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 22
10th Percentile £54.42 £44.44 £17.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £60.10 £19.75
Median hourly rate £61.22 £73.60 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% +213.19% -46.11%
75th Percentile £66.50 £79.60 £49.13
90th Percentile £67.70 £81.76 £83.75
London median hourly rate £34.27 £35.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -3.46% +18.33% -15.49%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in South London

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Test Strategy

Test Strategy
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 South London region over the 6 months to 4 February 2026. 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
Croydon -4 1 £600 +57.89% 3
Test Strategy
London

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (100.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA