Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Warrington

Test Strategy
Cheshire > Warrington

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Warrington requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Warrington 1.25% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £381 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £444 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £358 £510 £513
% change year-on-year -29.74% -0.59% +20.59%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Warrington

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 Warrington.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66 58 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warrington 82.50% 96.67% 85.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 32 41
10th Percentile £165 £203 £313
25th Percentile £332 £322 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £488 £520 £513
90th Percentile £557 £575 £575
Cheshire median daily rate £445 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -6.32% -5.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 7
10th Percentile - - £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.71 - £26.66
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.94%
75th Percentile £24.37 - £35.83
90th Percentile £67.25 - £57.00
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £25.79 £26.66
% change year-on-year -11.39% -3.27% +65.90%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Warrington

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Daily Rate Trend in Warrington

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Warrington

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA