Test Strategy Jobs in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Test Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 380 235
Rank change year-on-year -126 -145 +126
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 286 415 1,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.75% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.79% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 215 173 437
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,850 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +12.63%
75th Percentile £63,125 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Test Strategy falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,702 52,760 72,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.77% 95.48% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,767 28,367 41,386
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +8.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Test Strategy in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East -40 75 £47,500 -10.38% 18
Midlands -1 67 £50,000 -8.31% 14
West Midlands +17 56 £50,000 -13.04% 11
North of England -81 48 £51,674 -6.05% 21
South West -49 38 £51,125 -10.62% 15
North West -43 28 £51,674 -6.05% 14
Scotland -88 24 £45,000 +2.27% 11
East of England -31 21 £60,000 -7.69% 12
Yorkshire -13 16 £41,000 -7.87% 3
Wales +10 13 £52,500 +50.00% 2
East Midlands -20 11 £49,329 +9.62% 3
North East -15 4 £55,000 +4.76% 4
Test Strategy
UK

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 21 (7.34%) Confluence
2 1 (0.35%) IIS
2 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.70%) Simulink
5 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 36 (12.59%) Azure
2 35 (12.24%) AWS
3 30 (10.49%) SaaS
4 12 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (3.85%) Google Analytics
6 7 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.10%) GCP
8 4 (1.40%) BrowserStack
9 3 (1.05%) Google Ads
9 3 (1.05%) Sauce Labs
10 2 (0.70%) GitHub
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.35%) Firebase
11 1 (0.35%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.35%) PaaS
11 1 (0.35%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.10%) Ethernet
1 6 (2.10%) RS-232
2 4 (1.40%) Bluetooth
2 4 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (1.40%) ZigBee
3 2 (0.70%) Firewall
3 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.35%) DHCP
4 1 (0.35%) DNS
4 1 (0.35%) HTTP
4 1 (0.35%) Multicast
4 1 (0.35%) SMS
4 1 (0.35%) VLAN
4 1 (0.35%) VPN
4 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.80%) Looker
2 4 (1.40%) Data Lake
2 4 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.40%) MySQL
2 4 (1.40%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.70%) Data Mining
3 2 (0.70%) Redis
3 2 (0.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.35%) Power BI
4 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 61 (21.33%) Selenium
2 51 (17.83%) JIRA
3 29 (10.14%) Git
4 28 (9.79%) Postman
5 17 (5.94%) Visual Studio
6 16 (5.59%) Cucumber
7 13 (4.55%) Subversion
8 12 (4.20%) Cypress.io
9 9 (3.15%) Appium
9 9 (3.15%) JMeter
10 8 (2.80%) SoapUI
10 8 (2.80%) TeamCity
11 6 (2.10%) JUnit
12 5 (1.75%) LoadRunner
12 5 (1.75%) REST Assured
13 4 (1.40%) Jenkins
13 4 (1.40%) SpecFlow
13 4 (1.40%) TestNG
13 4 (1.40%) TestRail
13 4 (1.40%) Zephyr
General
1 115 (40.21%) Social Skills
2 77 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (15.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 39 (13.64%) Finance
5 36 (12.59%) Organisational Skills
6 32 (11.19%) Electronics
7 17 (5.94%) Banking
7 17 (5.94%) Manufacturing
8 16 (5.59%) Legal
9 15 (5.24%) Law
10 13 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (4.20%) Marketing
12 11 (3.85%) Public Sector
13 9 (3.15%) Investment Banking
13 9 (3.15%) Retail
14 8 (2.80%) Aerospace
14 8 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.40%) Automotive
15 4 (1.40%) Aviation
16 2 (0.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 45 (15.73%) Lead
2 36 (12.59%) Test Engineer
3 33 (11.54%) Test Manager
4 30 (10.49%) Senior
4 30 (10.49%) Test Leader
5 26 (9.09%) Analyst
5 26 (9.09%) Tester
6 16 (5.59%) QA Engineer
6 16 (5.59%) Test Analyst
7 15 (5.24%) QA Leader
8 14 (4.90%) Software Engineer
9 13 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
10 11 (3.85%) Business Analyst
10 11 (3.85%) QA Analyst
10 11 (3.85%) QA Test Analyst
11 9 (3.15%) Automation Test Lead
11 9 (3.15%) Developer
11 9 (3.15%) IT Manager
11 9 (3.15%) Systems Engineer
11 9 (3.15%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.44%) .NET
2 17 (5.94%) .NET Framework
3 13 (4.55%) Qt
4 10 (3.50%) Web Services
5 9 (3.15%) Gherkin
6 8 (2.80%) REST
7 6 (2.10%) CSS
7 6 (2.10%) HTML
7 6 (2.10%) SOAP
8 5 (1.75%) Playwright
8 5 (1.75%) Spring
8 5 (1.75%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.40%) JSON
9 4 (1.40%) Swagger
10 3 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (1.05%) WPF
10 3 (1.05%) XML
11 2 (0.70%) WebdriverIO
12 1 (0.35%) DPDK
12 1 (0.35%) Vuex
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.24%) Self-Motivation
2 32 (11.19%) Product Ownership
3 18 (6.29%) IoT
3 18 (6.29%) Robotics
4 15 (5.24%) Mobile App
5 14 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.85%) Analogue Electronics
7 8 (2.80%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.80%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.45%) Credit Derivative
8 7 (2.45%) Derivative
8 7 (2.45%) Fixed Income
8 7 (2.45%) FMCG
8 7 (2.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (2.45%) Hedge funds
8 7 (2.45%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 7 (2.45%) Reference Data
9 6 (2.10%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.19%) Windows
2 26 (9.09%) Linux
3 13 (4.55%) Ubuntu
3 13 (4.55%) Windows 10
4 6 (2.10%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (56.64%) Test Automation
2 111 (38.81%) Software Testing
3 109 (38.11%) Agile
4 77 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
5 72 (25.17%) Test Management
6 58 (20.28%) Test Scripting
7 51 (17.83%) User Acceptance Testing
8 48 (16.78%) Computer Science
9 44 (15.38%) Mentoring
10 42 (14.69%) DevOps
10 42 (14.69%) Functional Testing
11 40 (13.99%) Scrum
12 38 (13.29%) CI/CD
13 37 (12.94%) Regression Testing
13 37 (12.94%) SDLC
14 36 (12.59%) Software Engineering
15 35 (12.24%) Project Management
16 34 (11.89%) Change Management
17 31 (10.84%) Manual Testing
17 31 (10.84%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (9.09%) SQL
2 22 (7.69%) C
2 22 (7.69%) C#
3 21 (7.34%) Java
4 20 (6.99%) JavaScript
5 16 (5.59%) C++
5 16 (5.59%) Python
6 4 (1.40%) MATLAB
7 3 (1.05%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.70%) Bash
8 2 (0.70%) VB
8 2 (0.70%) VBA
9 1 (0.35%) Perl
9 1 (0.35%) PHP
9 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.35%) RPG
Qualifications
1 84 (29.37%) Degree
2 45 (15.73%) ISTQB
3 32 (11.19%) Security Cleared
4 28 (9.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (7.34%) SC Cleared
6 15 (5.24%) ISEB
7 8 (2.80%) OSCP
8 6 (2.10%) CSPO
8 6 (2.10%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.10%) IIBA
9 5 (1.75%) CAPM
9 5 (1.75%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.75%) PMP
10 4 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (1.05%) Analytics IQ
12 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.35%) CCNA
13 1 (0.35%) CCNP
13 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (31.82%) QA
2 8 (2.80%) GRC
3 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (2.45%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.05%) Docker
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (1.75%) HP ALM
2 2 (0.70%) Grafana
3 1 (0.35%) Ansible
3 1 (0.35%) Iperf
3 1 (0.35%) Kibana
3 1 (0.35%) Nmap
3 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (13.99%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.85%) Google
2 11 (3.85%) Oracle
2 11 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 7 (2.45%) ServiceNow
4 5 (1.75%) HP
5 3 (1.05%) Kenshoo
5 3 (1.05%) Micro Focus
6 2 (0.70%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.70%) Medallia
6 2 (0.70%) Optimizely
6 2 (0.70%) Splunk
7 1 (0.35%) Databricks
7 1 (0.35%) Denodo
7 1 (0.35%) IBM
7 1 (0.35%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.35%) SAP
7 1 (0.35%) Talend
7 1 (0.35%) Thales
7 1 (0.35%) Workday