Test Strategy Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Test Strategy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 162 195
Rank change year-on-year -31 +33 +33
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 111 199 329
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.12% 1.30% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.48% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 128 243
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £380 £424 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +6.06% -1.10%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £553
90th Percentile £663 £800 £700
UK median daily rate £472 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -10.10% - +1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile - - £57.50
25th Percentile £28.18 £67.50 £65.00
Median hourly rate £51.59 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.30% -12.50% +128.57%
75th Percentile £77.56 £72.50 £86.25
90th Percentile £82.18 - £88.50
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £58.94
% change year-on-year -14.29% +18.77% +126.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Strategy trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Strategy.

Test Strategy daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Test Strategy over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Test Strategy daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Strategy.

Test Strategy hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Test Strategy over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Test Strategy hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (3.60%) Confluence
2 3 (2.70%) CMS
2 3 (2.70%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.90%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.70%) NetSuite
2 3 (2.70%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.90%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.90%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 27 (24.32%) Azure
2 18 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (13.51%) AWS
4 8 (7.21%) GitHub
5 5 (4.50%) GCP
5 5 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.60%) SaaS
7 3 (2.70%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.70%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.80%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (1.80%) BrowserStack
8 2 (1.80%) Sauce Labs
8 2 (1.80%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (1.80%) Twilio
9 1 (0.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.90%) npm
9 1 (0.90%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.90%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.90%) 5G
1 1 (0.90%) Converged Networks
1 1 (0.90%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (0.90%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (0.90%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.80%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.90%) DB2
2 1 (0.90%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.90%) Power BI
2 1 (0.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (21.62%) JIRA
2 15 (13.51%) Cypress.io
3 13 (11.71%) Jenkins
3 13 (11.71%) Postman
3 13 (11.71%) REST Assured
4 12 (10.81%) JMeter
5 11 (9.91%) Selenium
6 9 (8.11%) Git
7 6 (5.41%) Cucumber
7 6 (5.41%) Gatling
8 4 (3.60%) GitLab
8 4 (3.60%) SpecFlow
9 3 (2.70%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.70%) JUnit
9 3 (2.70%) LoadRunner
10 2 (1.80%) NeoLoad
10 2 (1.80%) NUnit
10 2 (1.80%) TestRail
10 2 (1.80%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.90%) Burp Suite
General
1 45 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.22%) Finance
3 15 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.71%) Banking
5 9 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.50%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.60%) Automotive
8 3 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Front Office
8 3 (2.70%) Law
8 3 (2.70%) Retail
9 2 (1.80%) Electronics
9 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.80%) Legal
9 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.80%) Military
9 2 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (26.13%) Lead
2 25 (22.52%) Test Manager
3 18 (16.22%) Test Leader
4 15 (13.51%) Senior
5 13 (11.71%) Analyst
5 13 (11.71%) Test Engineer
5 13 (11.71%) Tester
6 9 (8.11%) Developer
6 9 (8.11%) Test Analyst
7 8 (7.21%) Automation Tester
7 8 (7.21%) Senior Test Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.50%) Automation Test Lead
10 4 (3.60%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.60%) Java Engineer
10 4 (3.60%) Lead Test Engineer
10 4 (3.60%) Migration Manager
10 4 (3.60%) QA Leader
10 4 (3.60%) SAP Manager
10 4 (3.60%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.51%) Playwright
2 10 (9.01%) REST
3 6 (5.41%) Node.js
4 5 (4.50%) React
5 4 (3.60%) GraphQL
6 3 (2.70%) CSS
6 3 (2.70%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (2.70%) HTML
6 3 (2.70%) Jest
6 3 (2.70%) Middleware
7 2 (1.80%) .NET
7 2 (1.80%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.80%) SailPoint
7 2 (1.80%) WireMock
8 1 (0.90%) Blazor
8 1 (0.90%) Flask
8 1 (0.90%) Material-UI
8 1 (0.90%) Next.js
8 1 (0.90%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.81%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.50%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.70%) SCADA
3 3 (2.70%) State Machine
4 2 (1.80%) CMDB
4 2 (1.80%) FMCG
4 2 (1.80%) Infotainment
4 2 (1.80%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.80%) NHS
4 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.90%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.90%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.90%) Hackathon
5 1 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.90%) PropTech
5 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.70%) Linux
1 3 (2.70%) Windows
2 2 (1.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (46.85%) Test Automation
2 46 (41.44%) Agile
3 34 (30.63%) CI/CD
4 33 (29.73%) DevOps
5 32 (28.83%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (19.82%) Test Scripting
7 19 (17.12%) Performance Testing
7 19 (17.12%) User Acceptance Testing
8 18 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (16.22%) Test Management
9 17 (15.32%) API Testing
10 16 (14.41%) Scenario Testing
10 16 (14.41%) Software Testing
10 16 (14.41%) System Integration Testing
11 14 (12.61%) End-to-End Testing
12 13 (11.71%) Scrum
12 13 (11.71%) Waterfall
13 12 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (10.81%) Mentoring
13 12 (10.81%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.12%) Java
2 14 (12.61%) JavaScript
3 13 (11.71%) TypeScript
4 8 (7.21%) Python
5 7 (6.31%) SQL
6 3 (2.70%) C#
7 2 (1.80%) Go
8 1 (0.90%) Groovy
8 1 (0.90%) Perl
8 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.90%) Ruby
8 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (19.82%) SC Cleared
1 22 (19.82%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.91%) Degree
3 6 (5.41%) ISTQB
4 5 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.70%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.80%) CISA
6 2 (1.80%) CRISC
6 2 (1.80%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.90%) ISEB
7 1 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.90%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (36.04%) QA
2 9 (8.11%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.80%) COSHH
4 2 (1.80%) GRC
4 2 (1.80%) ISO 14001
4 2 (1.80%) ITGC
4 2 (1.80%) SOX 404
4 2 (1.80%) WCAG
5 1 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.90%) GDPR
5 1 (0.90%) GxP
5 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (8.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.60%) HP ALM
3 3 (2.70%) Ansible
3 3 (2.70%) Terraform
4 2 (1.80%) Packer
5 1 (0.90%) Grafana
5 1 (0.90%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (12.61%) SAP
2 9 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.21%) Oracle
4 4 (3.60%) HP
4 4 (3.60%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.70%) ION Trading
5 3 (2.70%) Solace
5 3 (2.70%) Workday
6 2 (1.80%) Ariba
6 2 (1.80%) Avaya
6 2 (1.80%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.80%) Google
6 2 (1.80%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.80%) Murex
7 1 (0.90%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.90%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.90%) DocuSign
7 1 (0.90%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.90%) Snow
7 1 (0.90%) Splunk