Test Strategy Contracts in West Yorkshire

Test Strategy
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Test Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 63 74
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 +3
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 10 15 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.55% 1.54% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 1.82% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 17
10th Percentile £263 £453 £473
25th Percentile £279 £517 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -20.91% -21.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £743
90th Percentile £543 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £515 £550 £596
% change year-on-year -6.39% -7.76% +8.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 596 825 1,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 92.40% 84.96% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 510 904
10th Percentile £301 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £618 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 20
10th Percentile - £11.91 £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.70% -34.05% +1.60%
75th Percentile £34.15 £15.24 £23.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £53.75 £56.78
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.03 £13.16
% change year-on-year +69.92% -0.99% -29.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Leeds +1 10 £435 -20.91% 9
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Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Cypress.io
1 4 (40.00%) Postman
1 4 (40.00%) Selenium
2 3 (30.00%) JIRA
3 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (20.00%) GitLab
3 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (20.00%) JMeter
3 2 (20.00%) Maven
3 2 (20.00%) REST Assured
3 2 (20.00%) SoapUI
3 2 (20.00%) TestNG
4 1 (10.00%) JUnit
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Test Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) QA Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Test Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Implementation Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Migration Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Playwright
1 2 (20.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) NHS
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) API Testing
4 4 (40.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) TDD
4 4 (40.00%) Test Scripting
5 3 (30.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Project Management
6 2 (20.00%) Agile Project Management
6 2 (20.00%) BDD
6 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
6 2 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Migration
6 2 (20.00%) OWASP
6 2 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) QA
2 4 (40.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (20.00%) WCAG
4 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (10.00%) GDPR
4 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce