Test Strategy Jobs

Test Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Test Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Strategy over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 497 341 276
Rank change year-on-year -156 -65 +129
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 476 895 2,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.95% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.99% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 364 508 975
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £44,750 £46,250 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £74,063 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,077 £102,500 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,532 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.97% -1.84% +8.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Test Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the UK

Test Strategy
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy.

Salary trend for Test Strategy in the UK

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in the UK

Test Strategy
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -121 423 £57,500 -12.21% 141
UK excluding London -124 287 £50,000 -2.97% 98
London -20 167 £81,250 +1.56% 54
Work from Home -114 159 £57,000 -17.88% 66
South East -43 74 £47,500 -9.52% 19
Midlands +23 68 £50,000 -8.31% 18
West Midlands +16 57 £50,000 -13.04% 16
North of England -66 50 £50,837 -7.57% 16
South West -37 38 £53,750 -6.03% 13
North West -25 28 £51,674 -6.05% 11
Scotland -92 23 £45,000 +2.27% 12
East of England -28 21 £60,000 -7.69% 16
Yorkshire -17 18 £41,000 -8.89% 2
Wales +6 13 £52,500 +50.00% 2
East Midlands -12 11 £49,329 +9.62% 2
North East -10 4 £55,000 +4.76% 3

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 25 (5.25%) Confluence
2 4 (0.84%) Apache
3 3 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.63%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.63%) CMS
3 3 (0.63%) WordPress
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.21%) IIS
5 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.42%) Simulink
5 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Sketch
5 1 (0.21%) UXPin
5 1 (0.21%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 5 (1.05%) Distributed Ledger
1 5 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (14.71%) Azure
2 67 (14.08%) AWS
3 58 (12.18%) SaaS
4 20 (4.20%) GCP
5 17 (3.57%) Google Analytics
6 16 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (2.73%) GitHub
7 13 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (1.26%) BrowserStack
10 6 (1.26%) PaaS
10 6 (1.26%) Power Platform
11 4 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.84%) Datadog
12 3 (0.63%) dbt
12 3 (0.63%) Google Ads
12 3 (0.63%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.26%) Ethernet
1 6 (1.26%) RS-232
2 4 (0.84%) Bluetooth
2 4 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (0.84%) ZigBee
3 2 (0.42%) Firewall
3 2 (0.42%) HTTP
3 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.21%) DHCP
4 1 (0.21%) DNS
4 1 (0.21%) Multicast
4 1 (0.21%) SMS
4 1 (0.21%) VLAN
4 1 (0.21%) VPN
4 1 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.31%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.10%) Looker
3 7 (1.47%) Big Data
3 7 (1.47%) Redis
4 6 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.26%) Power BI
5 5 (1.05%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.05%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.05%) MySQL
5 5 (1.05%) SAP BW
5 5 (1.05%) SAP HANA
6 4 (0.84%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.84%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.63%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.42%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.42%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.21%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.21%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 98 (20.59%) Selenium
2 71 (14.92%) JIRA
3 63 (13.24%) Postman
4 55 (11.55%) Cucumber
5 38 (7.98%) Jenkins
6 31 (6.51%) Git
7 28 (5.88%) Cypress.io
8 26 (5.46%) JUnit
9 19 (3.99%) JMeter
10 16 (3.36%) Visual Studio
11 15 (3.15%) Appium
12 12 (2.52%) Subversion
13 11 (2.31%) SoapUI
13 11 (2.31%) WebDriver
14 9 (1.89%) GitLab
15 8 (1.68%) LoadRunner
15 8 (1.68%) TeamCity
16 7 (1.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 7 (1.47%) SpecFlow
17 6 (1.26%) TestNG
General
1 159 (33.40%) Social Skills
2 101 (21.22%) Analytical Skills
3 88 (18.49%) Finance
4 57 (11.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 42 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
6 33 (6.93%) Electronics
7 25 (5.25%) Banking
8 21 (4.41%) Public Sector
9 19 (3.99%) Law
9 19 (3.99%) Legal
10 17 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (3.57%) Manufacturing
10 17 (3.57%) Marketing
11 16 (3.36%) Retail
12 10 (2.10%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.68%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.68%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.84%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 103 (21.64%) Lead
2 59 (12.39%) Senior
3 53 (11.13%) Analyst
4 52 (10.92%) Test Engineer
5 49 (10.29%) Test Manager
6 37 (7.77%) Test Leader
6 37 (7.77%) Tester
7 28 (5.88%) QA Engineer
8 27 (5.67%) Test Analyst
9 20 (4.20%) QA Leader
10 16 (3.36%) Test Automation Engineer
11 14 (2.94%) Business Analyst
11 14 (2.94%) Developer
11 14 (2.94%) Software Engineer
12 13 (2.73%) Penetration Tester
13 12 (2.52%) Applications Engineer
13 12 (2.52%) Engineering Manager
13 12 (2.52%) QA Analyst
14 11 (2.31%) QA Test Analyst
15 9 (1.89%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.87%) REST
2 35 (7.35%) .NET
3 17 (3.57%) .NET Framework
3 17 (3.57%) JSON
3 17 (3.57%) Web Services
4 16 (3.36%) React
5 14 (2.94%) Gherkin
6 13 (2.73%) WebdriverIO
7 12 (2.52%) Qt
8 10 (2.10%) Playwright
9 8 (1.68%) HTML
9 8 (1.68%) RESTful
10 7 (1.47%) Apache Thrift
10 7 (1.47%) CSS
11 6 (1.26%) Node.js
11 6 (1.26%) SOAP
11 6 (1.26%) Spring
11 6 (1.26%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.26%) Swagger
12 5 (1.05%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 43 (9.03%) Product Ownership
2 41 (8.61%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (3.78%) IoT
3 18 (3.78%) Mobile App
4 17 (3.57%) Robotics
5 14 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.73%) Analogue Electronics
7 12 (2.52%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.31%) Algorithms
9 10 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.68%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.47%) Credit Derivative
11 7 (1.47%) Derivative
11 7 (1.47%) Fixed Income
11 7 (1.47%) FMCG
11 7 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.47%) Hedge funds
11 7 (1.47%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 7 (1.47%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.51%) Windows
2 27 (5.67%) Linux
3 12 (2.52%) Ubuntu
3 12 (2.52%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.26%) Android
4 6 (1.26%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.84%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (55.04%) Test Automation
2 204 (42.86%) Agile
3 162 (34.03%) Software Testing
4 107 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
5 91 (19.12%) CI/CD
6 87 (18.28%) Test Management
7 79 (16.60%) Mentoring
8 75 (15.76%) User Acceptance Testing
9 71 (14.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 71 (14.92%) Test Scripting
10 68 (14.29%) API Testing
11 65 (13.66%) Functional Testing
12 64 (13.45%) Computer Science
13 61 (12.82%) DevOps
14 60 (12.61%) Regression Testing
14 60 (12.61%) SDET
15 59 (12.39%) BDD
15 59 (12.39%) Project Management
16 57 (11.97%) Software Engineering
17 53 (11.13%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 80 (16.81%) Java
2 45 (9.45%) SQL
3 44 (9.24%) Python
4 42 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 34 (7.14%) C#
6 23 (4.83%) C
7 15 (3.15%) C++
8 11 (2.31%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.05%) Bash
9 5 (1.05%) Scala
10 4 (0.84%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.42%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.42%) PHP
11 2 (0.42%) VB
11 2 (0.42%) VBA
12 1 (0.21%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.21%) Perl
12 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.21%) RPG
Qualifications
1 104 (21.85%) Degree
2 61 (12.82%) ISTQB
3 49 (10.29%) Security Cleared
4 39 (8.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (6.72%) SC Cleared
6 29 (6.09%) ISEB
7 11 (2.31%) OSCP
8 9 (1.89%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 7 (1.47%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.26%) CSPO
11 6 (1.26%) IIBA
11 6 (1.26%) PMI Certification
12 5 (1.05%) CAPM
12 5 (1.05%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 5 (1.05%) PMP
13 4 (0.84%) ISEB Practitioner
14 3 (0.63%) CEH
14 3 (0.63%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (39.29%) QA
2 12 (2.52%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.31%) GRC
4 9 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.47%) NIST
6 3 (0.63%) COBIT
6 3 (0.63%) GDPR
6 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.42%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (2.31%) Docker
2 7 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (1.26%) Grafana
2 5 (1.05%) HP ALM
2 5 (1.05%) Kibana
3 4 (0.84%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.63%) Terraform
5 2 (0.42%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) Iperf
6 1 (0.21%) Nmap
6 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 49 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.67%) Google
3 12 (2.52%) Salesforce
4 11 (2.31%) Oracle
4 11 (2.31%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.47%) SAP
6 6 (1.26%) Databricks
6 6 (1.26%) Splunk
7 5 (1.05%) HP
7 5 (1.05%) IBM
7 5 (1.05%) UiPath
8 3 (0.63%) Ahrefs
8 3 (0.63%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.63%) Kenshoo
8 3 (0.63%) Micro Focus
8 3 (0.63%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.63%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.42%) Intapp
9 2 (0.42%) Medallia
9 2 (0.42%) Talend