Test Strategy Contracts in West Yorkshire

Test Strategy
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 77 77
Rank change year-on-year +16 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 15 29 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.52% 1.82% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.99% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 23 27
10th Percentile £404 £488 £312
25th Percentile £447 £506 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +14.58% +12.94%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £521
90th Percentile - £743 £560
Yorkshire median daily rate £517 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% +10.00% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 865 1,456 1,709
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.37% 91.34% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 998 1,235
10th Percentile £300 £350 £300
25th Percentile £406 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +5.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £582 £619 £575
90th Percentile £662 £700 £655
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £525 £485
% change year-on-year -7.62% +8.25% +10.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 18 42
10th Percentile £11.91 £12.00 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.15 £13.81 £12.19
Median hourly rate £12.53 £20.25 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -38.12% +10.96% -20.65%
75th Percentile £15.20 £63.75 £22.66
90th Percentile £41.35 £70.00 £28.60
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.82
% change year-on-year +27.00% -40.35% -9.51%

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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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 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
Leeds +14 13 £534 -3.00% 5
Bradford +2 2 £450 -27.13%
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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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 5 (33.33%) JMeter
2 4 (26.67%) JIRA
2 4 (26.67%) JUnit
2 4 (26.67%) Selenium
3 2 (13.33%) Cypress.io
3 2 (13.33%) Gatling
3 2 (13.33%) Git
3 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (13.33%) Postman
3 2 (13.33%) REST Assured
3 2 (13.33%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Test Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) QA Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) QA Test Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Test Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) SAP Manager
4 2 (13.33%) SAP Test Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Test Leader
4 2 (13.33%) Tester
5 1 (6.67%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Automation Tester
5 1 (6.67%) Programme Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Programme Test Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Gherkin
2 2 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (13.33%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Mac OS X
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Agile
1 14 (93.33%) Test Automation
2 8 (53.33%) Test Planning
3 7 (46.67%) Analytics
3 7 (46.67%) Scrum
3 7 (46.67%) User Stories
4 6 (40.00%) Defect Tracking
4 6 (40.00%) TDD
5 5 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (26.67%) Acceptance Criteria
6 4 (26.67%) API Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (26.67%) Kanban
6 4 (26.67%) Software Delivery
6 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
6 4 (26.67%) System Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Test Scripting
6 4 (26.67%) Unit Testing
7 3 (20.00%) IT Audit
7 3 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) Groovy
2 2 (13.33%) Scala
2 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (73.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft