Test Strategy Contracts in Yorkshire

Test Strategy
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 82 94
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 -17
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 15 40 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.89% 1.77% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.94% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 28 37
10th Percentile £404 £461 £339
25th Percentile £447 £500 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £653 £550
90th Percentile - £743 £600
England median daily rate £525 £525 £524
% change year-on-year - +0.24% +10.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,447 2,059 2,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.23% 90.99% 89.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 865 1,369 1,754
10th Percentile £275 £279 £261
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £483
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +8.81% +10.29%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £554
90th Percentile £650 £700 £645
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 62 80
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -41.75% -8.49%
75th Percentile £22.00 £20.76 £22.81
90th Percentile £53.75 £55.61 £27.63
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 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
West Yorkshire +11 15 £517 -6.00% 1
Test Strategy
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:

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%) CI/CD
7 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
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