Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Stevenage

Test Strategy
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stevenage requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 35 27
Rank change year-on-year -5 -8 -
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 3 1 37
As % of all contract jobs in Stevenage 0.87% 0.70% 7.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.75% 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile £473 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £450 £750 £513
% change year-on-year -40.00% +46.34% -14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
Hertfordshire median hourly rate - - £60.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
Stevenage

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 Stevenage.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 258 134 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage 75.00% 94.37% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 44 47
10th Percentile £350 £343 £80
25th Percentile £425 £450 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year -13.09% +37.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £575
90th Percentile £728 £625 £650
Hertfordshire median daily rate £520 £550 £413
% change year-on-year -5.45% +33.33% -17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 58 300
10th Percentile £22.67 £39.82 £38.12
25th Percentile £40.00 £55.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £64.50 £68.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.15% +36.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £77.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.70 £84.30 £75.25
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £50.00 £62.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -19.35% +24.00% -20.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Stevenage

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Daily Rate Trend in Stevenage

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Stevenage

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Newman
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Test Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Pandas
1 3 (100.00%) pytest
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XML Schema
2 2 (66.67%) Great Expectations
2 2 (66.67%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (66.67%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) API Testing
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks