Test Strategy Contracts in Watford

Test Strategy
Hertfordshire > Watford

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Watford 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 24 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Watford 1.72% 0.68% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 0.85% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £494 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -10.23% +12.82% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Watford

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 Watford with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 109 118 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 93.97% 80.27% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 85 107
10th Percentile £300 £200 £240
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £490
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +22.45% +15.29%
75th Percentile £606 £788 £625
90th Percentile £740 £928 £638
Hertfordshire median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 5
10th Percentile £13.58 - £26.50
25th Percentile £13.69 £21.00 £32.50
Median hourly rate £14.75 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.95% -37.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £16.06 £34.35 £37.50
90th Percentile £16.33 £38.64 £44.40
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £50.85
% change year-on-year -23.08% +27.83% +13.00%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Watford

Test Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Watford

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Watford

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford 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 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) ETL Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA