Test Strategy Contracts in Suffolk

Test Strategy
East of England > Suffolk

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk with a requirement for Test Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Strategy over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 17 25
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 -10
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 2 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 3.28% 3.47% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 3.94% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £620 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £641 £743 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.80% - -
75th Percentile £661 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £531 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -3.41% +7.79% +10.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Suffolk

Test Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49 127 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 80.33% 88.19% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 105 83
10th Percentile £105 £400 £245
25th Percentile £199 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £650 £480
Median % change year-on-year -28.46% +35.42% +37.14%
75th Percentile £569 £700 £575
90th Percentile £650 £745 £663
East of England median daily rate £465 £475 £468
% change year-on-year -2.11% +1.50% +10.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 4
10th Percentile £11.25 £13.38 £14.11
25th Percentile £12.69 £13.78 £14.84
Median hourly rate £29.25 £15.50 £15.75
Median % change year-on-year +88.71% -1.59% +10.53%
75th Percentile £53.69 £17.33 £18.25
90th Percentile £68.34 £19.27 £22.30
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -11.93%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

Job postings citing Test Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Suffolk.

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Suffolk

Test Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in Suffolk.

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Suffolk

Test Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in Suffolk.

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in Suffolk

Test Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Ipswich +10 1 - -
Test Strategy
East of England

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft