Test Strategy Contracts with Work from Home Options

Test Strategy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 157 197 226
Rank change year-on-year +40 +29 -21
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 198 312 521
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.31% 1.24% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.39% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 231 378
10th Percentile £362 £372 £391
25th Percentile £413 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £508
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -6.40% +9.02%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £598
90th Percentile £800 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £518
% change year-on-year +2.44% -1.06% +9.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile - £57.50 £30.25
25th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +128.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £72.50 £86.25 £55.36
90th Percentile - £88.50 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.55 £26.00
% change year-on-year +11.91% +140.58% -42.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Test Strategy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Strategy trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Test Strategy over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

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 a work from home option citing Test Strategy.

Test Strategy hourly rate 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 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.52%) CMS
2 3 (1.52%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.01%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.51%) Maya
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.53%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (1.52%) Loan IQ
2 3 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.01%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.01%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (1.01%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.01%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.01%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.51%) Magento
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.51%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.51%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.51%) SAP FSCM
4 1 (0.51%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 46 (23.23%) Azure
2 26 (13.13%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 16 (8.08%) Azure API Management
4 16 (8.08%) Azure Logic Apps
5 15 (7.58%) AWS
6 9 (4.55%) OCI
7 8 (4.04%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.03%) SaaS
9 5 (2.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 4 (2.02%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.02%) IaaS
10 4 (2.02%) PaaS
10 4 (2.02%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.52%) GitHub
11 3 (1.52%) Oracle CX
12 2 (1.01%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (1.01%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.01%) SAN
2 1 (0.51%) Network Security
2 1 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.54%) MySQL
1 7 (3.54%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (2.53%) Power BI
3 4 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (1.52%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.52%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.51%) Big Data
5 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.51%) Looker
5 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.51%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (10.10%) JIRA
1 20 (10.10%) Selenium
2 16 (8.08%) Git
3 15 (7.58%) Postman
4 14 (7.07%) Cucumber
5 13 (6.57%) JMeter
6 10 (5.05%) SpecFlow
7 8 (4.04%) JUnit
7 8 (4.04%) TestNG
8 7 (3.54%) Cypress.io
8 7 (3.54%) Jenkins
8 7 (3.54%) TestRail
9 6 (3.03%) Appium
9 6 (3.03%) LoadRunner
9 6 (3.03%) REST Assured
9 6 (3.03%) WebDriver
10 5 (2.53%) Rational DOORS
10 5 (2.53%) Visual Studio
11 4 (2.02%) SoapUI
12 3 (1.52%) eggPlant
General
1 61 (30.81%) Finance
2 44 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 19 (9.60%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.59%) Banking
5 10 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.05%) Investment Banking
6 9 (4.55%) Marketing
7 7 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.03%) Front Office
8 6 (3.03%) Retail
9 5 (2.53%) Back Office
9 5 (2.53%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.02%) Legal
10 4 (2.02%) Prime Brokerage
10 4 (2.02%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
11 3 (1.52%) Electronics
11 3 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 50 (25.25%) Lead
2 40 (20.20%) Test Manager
3 25 (12.63%) Senior
4 23 (11.62%) Analyst
5 18 (9.09%) Test Leader
6 13 (6.57%) Test Analyst
7 12 (6.06%) Developer
7 12 (6.06%) Tester
8 10 (5.05%) Architect
9 9 (4.55%) Test Engineer
10 8 (4.04%) Business Analyst
11 7 (3.54%) QA Leader
11 7 (3.54%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (3.03%) Automation Tester
13 5 (2.53%) DOORS Engineer
13 5 (2.53%) Integration Engineer
13 5 (2.53%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 5 (2.53%) Senior Test Analyst
13 5 (2.53%) Systems Engineer
13 5 (2.53%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.09%) XML
2 9 (4.55%) Playwright
3 7 (3.54%) .NET
3 7 (3.54%) REST
4 6 (3.03%) GraphQL
4 6 (3.03%) React
4 6 (3.03%) Web Services
5 5 (2.53%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.02%) Gherkin
6 4 (2.02%) Web Dynpro
7 2 (1.01%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.01%) CSS
7 2 (1.01%) HTML
7 2 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.01%) React Native
7 2 (1.01%) SwiftUI
7 2 (1.01%) UIKit
8 1 (0.51%) HTML5
8 1 (0.51%) Phalcon
8 1 (0.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.56%) Equities
2 7 (3.54%) Hedge funds
2 7 (3.54%) Mobile App
3 6 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.02%) Derivative
4 4 (2.02%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.02%) Wiki
5 3 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.52%) Life Science
5 3 (1.52%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.01%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.01%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.01%) Insider Threat
6 2 (1.01%) LIMS
6 2 (1.01%) NHS
6 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.01%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.51%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.51%) EPoS
7 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.06%) Windows
2 6 (3.03%) Unix
3 5 (2.53%) Android
4 4 (2.02%) Linux
5 2 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (37.37%) Agile
2 72 (36.36%) Test Automation
3 36 (18.18%) Software Testing
4 35 (17.68%) CI/CD
4 35 (17.68%) DevOps
4 35 (17.68%) User Acceptance Testing
5 32 (16.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (15.15%) Test Management
7 29 (14.65%) Mentoring
8 26 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (13.13%) Technical Leadership
9 25 (12.63%) Migration
9 25 (12.63%) Test Scripting
10 24 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (10.61%) Functional Testing
11 21 (10.61%) Non-Functional Testing
12 20 (10.10%) Performance Testing
12 20 (10.10%) Scenario Testing
13 19 (9.60%) Test Planning
14 18 (9.09%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (14.65%) C#
2 23 (11.62%) SQL
3 18 (9.09%) Java
4 14 (7.07%) Python
5 10 (5.05%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.05%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.02%) ABAP
6 4 (2.02%) PHP
7 3 (1.52%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.01%) C++
8 2 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.01%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.01%) Swift
9 1 (0.51%) C
9 1 (0.51%) Go
9 1 (0.51%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.51%) VB
9 1 (0.51%) VBA
9 1 (0.51%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 25 (12.63%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.12%) Degree
4 23 (11.62%) ISTQB
5 12 (6.06%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.53%) ISEB
7 5 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.01%) CISM
9 2 (1.01%) CISSP
9 2 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.01%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.01%) PMP
10 1 (0.51%) CCA
10 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.51%) PhD
10 1 (0.51%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (33.33%) QA
2 8 (4.04%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.53%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.02%) PMO
5 2 (1.01%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.01%) HL7
5 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.51%) GDPR
6 1 (0.51%) IFRS
6 1 (0.51%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.02%) Docker
2 2 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.01%) vSphere
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.52%) Grafana
2 2 (1.01%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.01%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.51%) Kibana
3 1 (0.51%) Puppet
3 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.59%) Oracle
3 13 (6.57%) SAP
4 6 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.53%) Adobe
6 4 (2.02%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.52%) Denodo
7 3 (1.52%) HP
7 3 (1.52%) Okta
7 3 (1.52%) Ping Identity
7 3 (1.52%) Talend
7 3 (1.52%) VMware
8 2 (1.01%) Apple
8 2 (1.01%) InterSystems
8 2 (1.01%) Splunk
9 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.51%) Ariba
9 1 (0.51%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.51%) FIS
9 1 (0.51%) Workday