Test Strategy Contracts in London

Test Strategy
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 193 255 241
Rank change year-on-year +62 -14 -16
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 219 240 438
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.25% 0.95% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.05% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 171 309
10th Percentile £371 £413 £413
25th Percentile £430 £458 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £675
90th Percentile £756 £738 £775
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.55 £26.00
% change year-on-year -4.08% +140.58% -42.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,493 22,867 35,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.25% 90.91% 92.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,090 16,561 26,167
10th Percentile £340 £375 £393
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £778
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 265 394
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +9.09% +8.83%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.00 £51.26
90th Percentile £68.30 £82.40 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in London

Test Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in London

Test Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Central London +50 35 £515 -25.09% 3
West London +30 8 £410 -
East London - 5 £540 - 2
South London +7 1 £575 - 1
Test Strategy
England

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.74%) MTS
3 5 (2.28%) Confluence
3 5 (2.28%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.37%) CMS
4 3 (1.37%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.91%) Apache
5 2 (0.91%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.46%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (2.74%) Aligne
1 6 (2.74%) Endur
1 6 (2.74%) EuroRunner
2 2 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.46%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.46%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.46%) SAP FSCM
3 1 (0.46%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 54 (24.66%) Azure
2 37 (16.89%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (10.96%) Dynamics 365
4 20 (9.13%) AWS
4 20 (9.13%) Azure API Management
5 16 (7.31%) Azure Logic Apps
6 15 (6.85%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (2.74%) Tricentis Tosca
8 4 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.83%) BrowserStack
8 4 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.83%) PowerApps
8 4 (1.83%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.37%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (1.37%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.37%) GCP
9 3 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.37%) Network Security
1 3 (1.37%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.91%) HTTP
2 2 (0.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.85%) Power BI
2 11 (5.02%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.20%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.83%) DB2
5 4 (1.83%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.83%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.83%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.37%) MySQL
6 3 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.91%) Big Data
7 2 (0.91%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.91%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.91%) Sybase ASE
7 2 (0.91%) Sybase IQ
8 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (15.53%) Selenium
2 29 (13.24%) Postman
3 23 (10.50%) JMeter
3 23 (10.50%) LoadRunner
4 21 (9.59%) Git
5 18 (8.22%) SpecFlow
6 17 (7.76%) Appium
6 17 (7.76%) Cucumber
6 17 (7.76%) JUnit
7 16 (7.31%) WebDriver
8 14 (6.39%) JIRA
9 13 (5.94%) REST Assured
9 13 (5.94%) TestNG
10 10 (4.57%) eggPlant
10 10 (4.57%) SoapUI
10 10 (4.57%) SOAtest
10 10 (4.57%) Visual Studio
11 8 (3.65%) NeoLoad
12 7 (3.20%) Gatling
13 5 (2.28%) TestRail
General
1 75 (34.25%) Finance
2 57 (26.03%) Social Skills
3 19 (8.68%) Banking
4 18 (8.22%) Back Office
5 16 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.31%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.94%) Legal
7 12 (5.48%) Front Office
8 10 (4.57%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (4.57%) Retail
9 8 (3.65%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.28%) Corporate Banking
10 5 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.28%) Law
11 3 (1.37%) Marketing
11 3 (1.37%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.37%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.91%) Electronics
12 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 60 (27.40%) Lead
2 40 (18.26%) Test Manager
3 31 (14.16%) Analyst
4 28 (12.79%) Test Leader
5 26 (11.87%) Senior
6 15 (6.85%) Test Analyst
6 15 (6.85%) Tester
7 14 (6.39%) Consultant
8 12 (5.48%) Business Analyst
9 11 (5.02%) Senior Analyst
9 11 (5.02%) Test Engineer
10 10 (4.57%) Architect
11 9 (4.11%) Senior Test Analyst
12 8 (3.65%) Performance Test Leader
13 7 (3.20%) Developer
13 7 (3.20%) Project Manager
13 7 (3.20%) QA Leader
14 6 (2.74%) Automation Engineer
14 6 (2.74%) Integration Manager
15 5 (2.28%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.50%) XML
2 21 (9.59%) .NET
3 13 (5.94%) .NET Framework
3 13 (5.94%) REST
4 7 (3.20%) Playwright
5 6 (2.74%) Middleware
6 5 (2.28%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.28%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.83%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.83%) JSON
7 4 (1.83%) Swagger
8 3 (1.37%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.37%) React
8 3 (1.37%) Web Services
9 2 (0.91%) FHIR
9 2 (0.91%) Gherkin
9 2 (0.91%) React Native
9 2 (0.91%) SOAP
9 2 (0.91%) SwiftUI
9 2 (0.91%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.48%) Mobile App
2 8 (3.65%) Hedge funds
3 7 (3.20%) Market Risk
3 7 (3.20%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.74%) Equities
4 6 (2.74%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.74%) Renewable Energy
4 6 (2.74%) Solar Panel
5 3 (1.37%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.37%) Life Science
5 3 (1.37%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.37%) Wiki
6 2 (0.91%) Data Fabric
6 2 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (0.91%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.91%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.91%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.02%) Windows
2 10 (4.57%) Linux
3 7 (3.20%) Android
4 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.91%) Unix
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (41.55%) Agile
2 89 (40.64%) Test Automation
3 51 (23.29%) CI/CD
4 49 (22.37%) DevOps
5 42 (19.18%) Software Testing
6 38 (17.35%) Performance Testing
7 37 (16.89%) Continuous Integration
8 33 (15.07%) Test Management
9 30 (13.70%) Test Scripting
10 28 (12.79%) Mentoring
11 24 (10.96%) Use Case
11 24 (10.96%) User Acceptance Testing
12 23 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (10.50%) Data Transformation
12 23 (10.50%) Non-Functional Testing
12 23 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (10.05%) BDD
13 22 (10.05%) Migration
14 21 (9.59%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (9.59%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 50 (22.83%) C#
2 36 (16.44%) SQL
3 28 (12.79%) Java
4 18 (8.22%) Python
5 10 (4.57%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.20%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.28%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.37%) C
8 3 (1.37%) C++
9 2 (0.91%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.91%) Swift
10 1 (0.46%) Go
10 1 (0.46%) ProC
Qualifications
1 25 (11.42%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.50%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.13%) Degree
4 15 (6.85%) ISTQB
5 7 (3.20%) ISEB
6 5 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.91%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.46%) CCA
10 1 (0.46%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.46%) PgMP
10 1 (0.46%) PhD
10 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.46%) PMP
10 1 (0.46%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (34.70%) QA
2 12 (5.48%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.83%) PMO
4 3 (1.37%) HL7
4 3 (1.37%) WCAG
5 2 (0.91%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.46%) EMIR
6 1 (0.46%) GDPR
6 1 (0.46%) IFRS
6 1 (0.46%) MiFID
6 1 (0.46%) NIST
6 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.83%) Docker
2 2 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.83%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.37%) Kibana
3 1 (0.46%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.46%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (15.53%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.22%) Oracle
3 11 (5.02%) SAP
4 8 (3.65%) Splunk
5 5 (2.28%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (2.28%) HP
5 5 (2.28%) iManage
5 5 (2.28%) Intapp
5 5 (2.28%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.28%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.28%) VMware
6 4 (1.83%) IBM
7 3 (1.37%) Adobe
7 3 (1.37%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.37%) Google
7 3 (1.37%) Qualtrics
8 2 (0.91%) Apple
8 2 (0.91%) SnapLogic
8 2 (0.91%) Sybase
8 2 (0.91%) Workday