Test Strategy Jobs in Manchester

Test Strategy
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 152 209
Rank change year-on-year -4 +57 -10
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 20 15 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.55% 0.57% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.60% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11 10 34
10th Percentile - £45,000 £40,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £58,438 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £85,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +54.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £66,000 £95,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £98,750 £65,000
North West median annual salary £48,750 £85,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -42.65% +54.55% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,116 2,512 5,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 85.75% 95.12% 96.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,415 1,840 3,508
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £32,331
25th Percentile £41,125 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,556 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% +8.28% +3.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,900 £84,777 £86,250
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Manchester

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Test Strategy in Manchester

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in Manchester

Test Strategy
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Salford - 5 £40,000 -
Test Strategy
North West

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (5.00%) CMS
1 1 (5.00%) Drupal
1 1 (5.00%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Magento
1 1 (5.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
1 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (20.00%) Selenium
3 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (10.00%) JMeter
3 2 (10.00%) MSTest
3 2 (10.00%) Postman
3 2 (10.00%) SpecFlow
3 2 (10.00%) Toad
4 1 (5.00%) HP UFT
4 1 (5.00%) JUnit
4 1 (5.00%) TestRail
General
1 3 (15.00%) Law
1 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.00%) Marketing
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Tester
2 7 (35.00%) Senior
2 7 (35.00%) Test Manager
3 6 (30.00%) Senior Tester
4 3 (15.00%) Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 3 (15.00%) Test Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Test Leader
5 2 (10.00%) SAP Manager
5 2 (10.00%) SAP Test Manager
5 2 (10.00%) UAT Tester
6 1 (5.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 1 (5.00%) Head of QA
6 1 (5.00%) IT Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) .NET
1 3 (15.00%) CSS
1 3 (15.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) Jest
2 1 (5.00%) Next.js
2 1 (5.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (45.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 8 (40.00%) Agile
4 6 (30.00%) Manual Testing
5 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 4 (20.00%) Test Management
5 4 (20.00%) Validation
6 3 (15.00%) Coaching
6 3 (15.00%) Customer Service
6 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (15.00%) Defect Management
6 3 (15.00%) Defect Tracking
6 3 (15.00%) DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (15.00%) Project Management
6 3 (15.00%) Regression Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) C#
1 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (55.00%) QA
2 6 (30.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (15.00%) WAI
3 3 (15.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) HP
2 2 (10.00%) SAP