Test Strategy Contracts in Yorkshire

Test Strategy
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 75 84 86
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 17 16 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.67% 0.95% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.10% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 28
10th Percentile £263 £406 £461
25th Percentile £328 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £484 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.34% -10.05% +7.50%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £600
90th Percentile £520 - £743
England median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +1.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Test Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South Yorkshire - 10 £520 - 2
West Yorkshire +7 7 £275 -45.03% 9
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
1 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (23.53%) GitHub
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) InfluxDB
1 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (70.59%) Selenium
2 11 (64.71%) JIRA
3 6 (35.29%) Postman
4 5 (29.41%) Cypress.io
5 4 (23.53%) Cucumber
5 4 (23.53%) Git
5 4 (23.53%) Gradle
5 4 (23.53%) HP UFT
5 4 (23.53%) IntelliJ
5 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
5 4 (23.53%) JUnit
5 4 (23.53%) Maven
5 4 (23.53%) SoapUI
6 2 (11.76%) JMeter
7 1 (5.88%) Katalon Studio
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Tester
2 6 (35.29%) QA Tester
3 4 (23.53%) Lead
4 3 (17.65%) Test Leader
4 3 (17.65%) Test Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Manual Tester
5 2 (11.76%) QA Manual Tester
6 1 (5.88%) Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Automation Test Lead
6 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Data Migration Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Data Migration Business Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Migration Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) NHS
1 2 (11.76%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Test Automation
2 11 (64.71%) DevOps
2 11 (64.71%) Non-Functional Testing
3 10 (58.82%) Agile
4 7 (41.18%) API Testing
5 6 (35.29%) Manual Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Project Management
6 5 (29.41%) Software Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Test Scripting
6 5 (29.41%) Validation
6 5 (29.41%) Workflow
7 4 (23.53%) Case Management
7 4 (23.53%) Code Coverage
7 4 (23.53%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (23.53%) Document Management
7 4 (23.53%) Exploratory Testing
7 4 (23.53%) OWASP
7 4 (23.53%) QA Automation
7 4 (23.53%) Security Testing
7 4 (23.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) Go
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (70.59%) QA
2 4 (23.53%) Accessibility
3 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
4 1 (5.88%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Salesforce