Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Test Strategy
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 25 23
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 2 1 10
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.82% 0.77% 4.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.90% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £408
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £412
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +21.36% -31.33%
75th Percentile - - £414
90th Percentile - - £414
South East median daily rate £460 £515 £425
% change year-on-year -10.64% +21.12% -22.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 191 111 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 78.28% 85.38% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 75 140
10th Percentile £205 £200 £200
25th Percentile £275 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £514
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.41% +2.75%
75th Percentile £575 £565 £600
90th Percentile £720 £638 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £518
% change year-on-year -2.06% -1.45% +1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 4
10th Percentile - - £17.25
25th Percentile £12.63 - £24.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £15.00 £46.96
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -68.06% +111.91%
75th Percentile £62.50 - £66.27
90th Percentile £67.50 - £68.55
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -52.38% -14.10% +37.50%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Test Strategy

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Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Test Strategy

Test Strategy
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 West Sussex region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Chichester - 1 - -
Crawley - 1 £650 - 12
Test Strategy
South East

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) UAT Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (50.00%) React Native
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Statistics
1 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) System Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle