Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Test Strategy
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 52 70
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 +11
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 1 11 4
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.21% 1.91% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 2.20% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - £311 £368
25th Percentile £575 £313 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £340 £428
Median % change year-on-year +76.47% -20.47% +0.59%
75th Percentile £625 £444 £494
90th Percentile - £500 £528
South West median daily rate £520 £500 £519
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.61% -3.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 425 500 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 89.47% 86.96% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 342 541
10th Percentile £319 £356 £350
25th Percentile £510 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £674 £655 £638
90th Percentile £725 £736 £725
South West median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.57% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 16
10th Percentile £12.50 - £14.36
25th Percentile £17.90 - £35.64
Median hourly rate £23.25 £12.79 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.78% -74.42% -18.70%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £65.75
90th Percentile - £22.23 £73.25
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Test Strategy

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Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Test Strategy

Test Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Corsham +11 1 £600 +34.83% 1
Test Strategy
South West

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (100.00%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform