Test Strategy Contracts in the Midlands

Test Strategy
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 92 107 64
Rank change year-on-year +15 -43 -7
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 44 51 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.52% 1.58% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 1.81% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 40 124
10th Percentile £338 £353 £422
25th Percentile £358 £472 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £528 £520
Median % change year-on-year -31.75% +1.44% +21.50%
75th Percentile £475 £544 £540
90th Percentile £625 £743 £584
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,343 2,821 4,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.04% 87.55% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,568 1,980 3,250
10th Percentile £231 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 101 130
10th Percentile £11.10 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.51% +21.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands 0 34 £358 -32.83% 11
East Midlands +13 10 £422 -43.27% 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.45%) Azure
2 3 (6.82%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.27%) Boomi
4 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.27%) SaaS
4 1 (2.27%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (40.91%) Amazon Redshift
1 18 (40.91%) MySQL
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (40.91%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) Selenium
3 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.27%) JIRA
3 1 (2.27%) Postman
3 1 (2.27%) SoapUI
General
1 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (6.82%) Finance
3 2 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (18.18%) Test Manager
2 6 (13.64%) Analyst
2 6 (13.64%) Test Analyst
3 5 (11.36%) Architect
3 5 (11.36%) Automation Tester
3 5 (11.36%) Tester
4 4 (9.09%) Lead
5 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Test Manager
5 3 (6.82%) Network Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (6.82%) Network Manager
5 3 (6.82%) Test Leader
6 2 (4.55%) Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Technical Architect
7 1 (2.27%) QA Leader
7 1 (2.27%) QA Tester
7 1 (2.27%) Team Leader
7 1 (2.27%) Test Automation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) CSS
1 2 (4.55%) HTML
1 2 (4.55%) JSON
1 2 (4.55%) Web Services
1 2 (4.55%) XML
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (2.27%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (52.27%) Scrum
2 22 (50.00%) Agile
3 18 (40.91%) Analytics
3 18 (40.91%) Configuration Management
3 18 (40.91%) Continuous Integration
3 18 (40.91%) Dashboard Development
3 18 (40.91%) Data Analytics
3 18 (40.91%) Data Extraction
3 18 (40.91%) ETL
3 18 (40.91%) Process Improvement
3 18 (40.91%) Requirements Gathering
3 18 (40.91%) Software Engineering
4 12 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 7 (15.91%) End-to-End Testing
6 7 (15.91%) Functional Testing
6 7 (15.91%) System Integration Testing
7 6 (13.64%) Software Testing
8 5 (11.36%) Manual Testing
8 5 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.82%) SQL
2 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.27%) ProC
Qualifications
1 20 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 20 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.82%) Degree
3 2 (4.55%) ISEB
3 2 (4.55%) ISTQB
3 2 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) QA
2 4 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (40.91%) Grafana
Vendors
1 18 (40.91%) Denodo
1 18 (40.91%) Talend
2 5 (11.36%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.55%) SAP
4 2 (4.55%) VMware
5 1 (2.27%) Dell
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle
5 1 (2.27%) Salesforce