Test Strategy Jobs in England

Test Strategy
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 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 478 371 237
Rank change year-on-year -107 -134 +158
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 420 709 2,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.86% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.90% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 317 436 879
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £66,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.60% +5.49%
75th Percentile £75,000 £91,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £94,000
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
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,129 78,899 137,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.94% 95.45% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 55,773 48,272 73,854
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,309 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in England

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Test Strategy in England

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in England

Test Strategy
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -58 165 £80,000 - 40
South East -18 75 £47,500 -9.95% 17
Midlands +4 67 £50,000 -8.31% 14
West Midlands +17 56 £50,000 -13.04% 11
North of England -70 49 £51,674 -6.05% 24
South West -39 38 £51,125 -10.62% 15
North West -27 28 £51,674 -6.05% 17
East of England -32 21 £60,000 -7.69% 13
Yorkshire -15 17 £41,000 -7.87% 3
East Midlands -25 11 £49,329 +9.62% 3
North East -13 4 £55,000 +4.76% 4
Test Strategy
UK

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 27 (6.43%) Confluence
2 3 (0.71%) CMS
2 3 (0.71%) WordPress
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.24%) Apache
4 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.48%) Simulink
5 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.24%) Sketch
5 1 (0.24%) UXPin
5 1 (0.24%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 5 (1.19%) Distributed Ledger
1 5 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.71%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (13.81%) Azure
2 57 (13.57%) AWS
3 56 (13.33%) SaaS
4 16 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (3.81%) Google Analytics
5 15 (3.57%) GCP
6 13 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (2.14%) GitHub
8 8 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (1.43%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.19%) BrowserStack
11 4 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.95%) Datadog
12 3 (0.71%) Google Ads
12 3 (0.71%) Tricentis Tosca
13 2 (0.48%) AWS Fargate
13 2 (0.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.43%) Ethernet
1 6 (1.43%) RS-232
2 4 (0.95%) Bluetooth
2 4 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (0.95%) ZigBee
3 2 (0.48%) Firewall
3 2 (0.48%) HTTP
3 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.24%) DHCP
4 1 (0.24%) DNS
4 1 (0.24%) Multicast
4 1 (0.24%) SMS
4 1 (0.24%) VLAN
4 1 (0.24%) VPN
4 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.14%) Looker
2 6 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (1.43%) Power BI
2 6 (1.43%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.19%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.19%) SAP BW
3 5 (1.19%) SAP HANA
4 4 (0.95%) Big Data
4 4 (0.95%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.95%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.95%) MySQL
4 4 (0.95%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.71%) Redis
5 3 (0.71%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.48%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.48%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.24%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 83 (19.76%) Selenium
2 70 (16.67%) JIRA
3 50 (11.90%) Cucumber
4 49 (11.67%) Postman
5 33 (7.86%) Jenkins
6 27 (6.43%) Git
7 25 (5.95%) Cypress.io
7 25 (5.95%) JUnit
8 17 (4.05%) JMeter
8 17 (4.05%) Visual Studio
9 13 (3.10%) Subversion
10 12 (2.86%) Appium
11 11 (2.62%) WebDriver
12 10 (2.38%) SoapUI
13 8 (1.90%) LoadRunner
13 8 (1.90%) TeamCity
14 7 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (1.43%) TestRail
16 5 (1.19%) REST Assured
16 5 (1.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 136 (32.38%) Social Skills
2 78 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (16.90%) Finance
4 42 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (8.81%) Organisational Skills
6 34 (8.10%) Electronics
7 17 (4.05%) Manufacturing
8 15 (3.57%) Banking
9 14 (3.33%) Public Sector
10 13 (3.10%) Legal
11 12 (2.86%) Law
11 12 (2.86%) Retail
12 11 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (2.38%) Marketing
14 8 (1.90%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.67%) Financial Institution
16 6 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.95%) Automotive
17 4 (0.95%) International Banking
18 3 (0.71%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 95 (22.62%) Lead
2 52 (12.38%) Senior
3 47 (11.19%) Test Manager
4 44 (10.48%) Analyst
5 40 (9.52%) Test Engineer
6 31 (7.38%) Test Leader
7 29 (6.90%) Tester
8 25 (5.95%) Test Analyst
9 23 (5.48%) QA Engineer
10 19 (4.52%) QA Leader
11 15 (3.57%) Software Engineer
12 14 (3.33%) Test Automation Engineer
13 13 (3.10%) Applications Engineer
13 13 (3.10%) Developer
13 13 (3.10%) Penetration Tester
14 12 (2.86%) Engineering Manager
14 12 (2.86%) QA Analyst
15 11 (2.62%) QA Test Analyst
16 9 (2.14%) IT Manager
16 9 (2.14%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.81%) REST
2 28 (6.67%) .NET
3 17 (4.05%) .NET Framework
4 16 (3.81%) JSON
4 16 (3.81%) React
5 14 (3.33%) Gherkin
6 13 (3.10%) Qt
7 12 (2.86%) Web Services
8 9 (2.14%) Playwright
9 8 (1.90%) WebdriverIO
10 7 (1.67%) Apache Thrift
10 7 (1.67%) RESTful
11 6 (1.43%) CSS
11 6 (1.43%) HTML
11 6 (1.43%) Swagger
12 5 (1.19%) Smart Contracts
12 5 (1.19%) Spring
12 5 (1.19%) Spring Boot
13 4 (0.95%) SOAP
14 3 (0.71%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.29%) Product Ownership
2 36 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (4.52%) IoT
4 18 (4.29%) Mobile App
4 18 (4.29%) Robotics
5 15 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (3.10%) Analogue Electronics
7 11 (2.62%) Algorithms
8 10 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.90%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.67%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.43%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.19%) BBC
13 5 (1.19%) Blockchain
13 5 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.19%) SCADA
14 4 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 32 (7.62%) Windows
2 29 (6.90%) Linux
3 13 (3.10%) Ubuntu
3 13 (3.10%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.43%) Android
4 6 (1.43%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.95%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (52.86%) Test Automation
2 179 (42.62%) Agile
3 136 (32.38%) Software Testing
4 84 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (19.52%) Test Management
6 76 (18.10%) Mentoring
7 74 (17.62%) CI/CD
8 69 (16.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 67 (15.95%) User Acceptance Testing
10 61 (14.52%) API Testing
10 61 (14.52%) Test Scripting
11 59 (14.05%) Project Management
12 57 (13.57%) Functional Testing
12 57 (13.57%) SDET
13 53 (12.62%) Computer Science
13 53 (12.62%) DevOps
14 50 (11.90%) Regression Testing
14 50 (11.90%) Software Engineering
15 49 (11.67%) Test Planning
16 45 (10.71%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 75 (17.86%) Java
2 37 (8.81%) Python
3 35 (8.33%) SQL
4 30 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 24 (5.71%) C
6 22 (5.24%) C#
7 16 (3.81%) C++
8 10 (2.38%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.19%) Bash
9 5 (1.19%) Scala
10 4 (0.95%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.48%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.48%) VB
12 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.24%) Perl
12 1 (0.24%) RPG
Qualifications
1 94 (22.38%) Degree
2 57 (13.57%) ISTQB
3 41 (9.76%) Security Cleared
4 30 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (6.90%) ISEB
6 26 (6.19%) SC Cleared
7 11 (2.62%) OSCP
8 10 (2.38%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.43%) CSPO
10 6 (1.43%) IIBA
10 6 (1.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 6 (1.43%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.19%) CAPM
11 5 (1.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 5 (1.19%) PMP
12 4 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.95%) ISEB Practitioner
13 3 (0.71%) CEH
13 3 (0.71%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (38.81%) QA
2 11 (2.62%) GRC
3 9 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.67%) NIST
5 3 (0.71%) COBIT
5 3 (0.71%) GDPR
5 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.48%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.19%) Docker
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (1.19%) HP ALM
2 4 (0.95%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.71%) Terraform
4 2 (0.48%) Ansible
4 2 (0.48%) Grafana
5 1 (0.24%) Iperf
5 1 (0.24%) Kibana
5 1 (0.24%) Nmap
5 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 41 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.71%) Google
3 12 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 7 (1.67%) SAP
4 7 (1.67%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.19%) HP
5 5 (1.19%) IBM
5 5 (1.19%) UiPath
6 4 (0.95%) OpenAI
6 4 (0.95%) Oracle
7 3 (0.71%) Ahrefs
7 3 (0.71%) Databricks
7 3 (0.71%) HubSpot
7 3 (0.71%) Kenshoo
7 3 (0.71%) Micro Focus
7 3 (0.71%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.48%) iManage
8 2 (0.48%) Intapp
8 2 (0.48%) Medallia
8 2 (0.48%) Talend