Test Strategy Job Trends in Solihull

Test Strategy
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Solihull requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Solihull 0.81% - 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% - 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £36,700
25th Percentile £55,000 - £37,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £39,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £46,000
90th Percentile - - £49,900
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +37.50% -27.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 97 153 174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Solihull 78.86% 98.08% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 61 86 143
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,750 £25,850
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,563 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £81,250 £68,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Strategy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Solihull.

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Solihull

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in Solihull

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Test Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Test Strategy

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft