Test Strategy Contracts in Surrey

Test Strategy
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey requiring Test Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 35 57
Rank change year-on-year +5 +22 +11
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 9 21 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 3.02% 3.58% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 4.34% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 19 8
10th Percentile - £413 £143
25th Percentile - £436 £146
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile - £563 -
90th Percentile - £698 -
South East median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £62.55
South East median hourly rate £60.00 - £62.55
% change year-on-year - - +28.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 267 484 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 89.60% 82.45% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 352 436
10th Percentile £188 £213 £198
25th Percentile £280 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -2.68% +2.75%
75th Percentile £544 £619 £625
90th Percentile £659 £700 £725
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 55 33
10th Percentile £20.63 £11.71 £32.10
25th Percentile £24.18 £13.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £26.33 £20.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% -54.44% +87.50%
75th Percentile £40.98 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £63.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Surrey

Test Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Surrey

Test Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in Surrey

Test Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Sunbury-on-Thames - 4 - -
Reigate 0 3 - - 1
Staines - 1 - -
Guildford - 1 - - 4
Test Strategy
South East

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) JUnit
1 5 (55.56%) Selenium
2 4 (44.44%) Appium
2 4 (44.44%) JMeter
3 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
3 2 (22.22%) JIRA
4 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 1 (11.11%) Mocha
4 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
4 1 (11.11%) TestRail
General
1 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Product Manager
1 4 (44.44%) QA Manager
1 4 (44.44%) QA Test Manager
1 4 (44.44%) Strategy Manager
1 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy Manager
2 3 (33.33%) QA Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Playwright
1 1 (11.11%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
1 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Manual Testing
3 5 (55.56%) Test Scripting
4 4 (44.44%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 4 (44.44%) Performance Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Product Management
5 3 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 3 (33.33%) User Stories
6 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
6 2 (22.22%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) User Experience
7 1 (11.11%) Project Management
7 1 (11.11%) Scrum
7 1 (11.11%) TDD
7 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) C#
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) QA
2 3 (33.33%) Software Quality Assurance