Test Strategy Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Strategy Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 - 454
Rank change year-on-year - - +65
Contract jobs requiring a Test Strategy Manager 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% - 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% - 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.38%
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £443 - £563
% change year-on-year - - +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,771 19,161 22,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.57% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,545 11,699 15,818
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 836 2,248 1,160
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.22% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%

Test Strategy Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Test Strategy Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy Manager in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy Manager in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East - 5 £450 -
Scotland - 1 - -
East of England - 1 - -
Test Strategy Manager
UK

Test Strategy Manager Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Test Strategy Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Test Strategy Manager in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Test Strategy
2 5 (71.43%) QA
3 4 (57.14%) Selenium
3 4 (57.14%) JUnit
3 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (57.14%) Appium
3 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
3 4 (57.14%) Manual Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Product Management
3 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 4 (57.14%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Test Management
5 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) JIRA
5 1 (14.29%) ERP
5 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 1 (14.29%) Finance
5 1 (14.29%) Automotive
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) Confluence
5 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills

Test Strategy Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Appium
1 4 (57.14%) JUnit
1 4 (57.14%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Test Strategy
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Manual Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Product Management
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
3 2 (28.57%) Test Management
4 1 (14.29%) ERP
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA