Test Strategy Contracts in the West Midlands

Test Strategy
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 49 48
Rank change year-on-year -35 -1 -9
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 28 110 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.45% 4.60% 4.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 5.20% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 83 109
10th Percentile £250 £432 £409
25th Percentile £358 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £379 £540 £517
Median % change year-on-year -29.81% +4.45% +27.65%
75th Percentile £528 - £540
90th Percentile £645 £600 £550
England median daily rate £525 £533 £518
% change year-on-year -1.50% +2.90% +11.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.55 £30.50
% change year-on-year -0.08% +105.08% -32.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,619 2,117 3,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.97% 88.50% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,453 2,361
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 73
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.75
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +5.32% -1.03%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.20
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Birmingham +3 13 £475 -5.00% 6
Shropshire -9 8 £358 -33.70% 5
Warwickshire -3 7 £800 +60.00%
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (3.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) NetSuite
2 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.57%) Boomi
3 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.57%) SaaS
3 1 (3.57%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
1 8 (28.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (35.71%) Git
2 4 (14.29%) JIRA
3 3 (10.71%) Selenium
4 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket
4 2 (7.14%) Cucumber
4 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.14%) Maven
4 2 (7.14%) REST Assured
4 2 (7.14%) TestNG
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Finance
2 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Test Manager
2 5 (17.86%) Analyst
2 5 (17.86%) Test Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Test Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Lead
4 3 (10.71%) Network Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Network Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Test Leader
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Test Assurance Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Lead Test Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) CSS
1 2 (7.14%) HTML
1 2 (7.14%) JSON
1 2 (7.14%) Web Services
1 2 (7.14%) XML
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Agile
1 13 (46.43%) Scrum
2 8 (28.57%) Analytics
2 8 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 8 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (28.57%) Dashboard Development
2 8 (28.57%) Data Analytics
2 8 (28.57%) Data Extraction
2 8 (28.57%) DevOps
2 8 (28.57%) ETL
2 8 (28.57%) Process Improvement
2 8 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
2 8 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 7 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
5 4 (14.29%) Defect Management
5 4 (14.29%) Manual Testing
5 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (14.29%) Test Management
6 3 (10.71%) Test Assurance
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) Java
1 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 2 (7.14%) SQL
2 1 (3.57%) ProC
Qualifications
1 12 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 11 (39.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) ISTQB
4 3 (10.71%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 3 (10.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (7.14%) Degree
5 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.57%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Grafana
2 3 (10.71%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Denodo
1 8 (28.57%) Talend
2 3 (10.71%) HP
2 3 (10.71%) Salesforce
2 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) SAP
3 2 (7.14%) VMware
4 1 (3.57%) Dell
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle