Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Telford

Test Strategy
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 22 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 44 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 13.41% 3.23% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.97% 3.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 33 3 0
10th Percentile £482 £362 -
25th Percentile £495 £365 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £369 -
Median % change year-on-year +42.28% - -
75th Percentile £540 £438 -
90th Percentile - £480 -
Shropshire median daily rate £525 £369 -
% change year-on-year +42.28% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 294 84 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 89.63% 90.32% 71.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 62 19
10th Percentile £400 £308 £339
25th Percentile £450 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £410
Median % change year-on-year +4.06% +17.20% -23.36%
75th Percentile £538 £527 £500
90th Percentile £552 £567 £539
Shropshire median daily rate £500 £477 £400
% change year-on-year +4.82% +19.25% -24.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £22.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 -
% change year-on-year +106.49% - -

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Telford

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 22 (50.00%) SAS
2 13 (29.55%) Apache
2 13 (29.55%) WebLogic
3 7 (15.91%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (6.82%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 21 (47.73%) AWS
2 20 (45.45%) Azure
3 13 (29.55%) Azure Monitor
3 13 (29.55%) OpenShift
4 4 (9.09%) PaaS
5 3 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (29.55%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 10 (22.73%) Oracle Database
3 9 (20.45%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 3 (6.82%) SAS Data Integration Studio
5 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (40.91%) GitLab
2 16 (36.36%) Selenium
3 15 (34.09%) JUnit
4 14 (31.82%) Git
4 14 (31.82%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.27%) Gatling
General
1 31 (70.45%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (31.82%) Test Specialist
2 11 (25.00%) Monitoring Engineer
3 9 (20.45%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Test Automation Specialist
5 5 (11.36%) Release Manager
6 3 (6.82%) Manual Tester
6 3 (6.82%) Tester
7 2 (4.55%) Configuration Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Network Specialist
7 2 (4.55%) Splunk Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Configuration Manager
8 1 (2.27%) Data Analytics Specialist
8 1 (2.27%) Environment Manager
8 1 (2.27%) Lead
8 1 (2.27%) Project Leader
8 1 (2.27%) QA Leader
8 1 (2.27%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.82%) pytest
2 13 (29.55%) REST
3 2 (4.55%) Playwright
4 1 (2.27%) .NET
4 1 (2.27%) JSON
4 1 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (29.55%) Linux
1 13 (29.55%) Unix
1 13 (29.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (88.64%) Analytics
2 23 (52.27%) CI/CD
3 22 (50.00%) DevOps
4 20 (45.45%) Visual Analytics
5 19 (43.18%) Test Automation
6 18 (40.91%) Containerisation
6 18 (40.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (38.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (38.64%) Incident Response
7 17 (38.64%) Log Analytics
7 17 (38.64%) Observability
7 17 (38.64%) Performance Monitoring
7 17 (38.64%) Proactive Management
7 17 (38.64%) Service Management
7 17 (38.64%) Synthetic Monitoring
8 16 (36.36%) Agile
8 16 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (36.36%) Defect Management
8 16 (36.36%) Incident Management
8 16 (36.36%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (29.55%) Python
1 13 (29.55%) SQL
2 1 (2.27%) Java
2 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (79.55%) Security Cleared
2 34 (77.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.27%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (38.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (61.36%) Oracle
2 17 (38.64%) AppDynamics
2 17 (38.64%) Dynatrace
2 17 (38.64%) Splunk
3 16 (36.36%) Cisco
4 7 (15.91%) Microsoft