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 20 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 432 338 276
Rank change year-on-year -94 -62 +118
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 442 933 1,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.99% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.03% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 347 552 828
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £40,404
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £49,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £86,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £58,700 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.08% - +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 72,310 90,560 124,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 86.04% 95.68% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 53,571 53,351 74,211
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,308 £33,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,185 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.93% +2.92% +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 20 April 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 20 April 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 +2 195 £85,500 +6.88% 45
South East -30 67 £47,500 -5.00% 24
Midlands +32 65 £50,000 -14.89% 16
West Midlands +57 55 £50,000 -23.08% 13
North of England -55 53 £51,674 +3.35% 23
South West -33 37 £58,700 -2.17% 11
North West -12 29 £51,674 -6.05% 15
Yorkshire -2 20 £41,000 -16.33% 6
East of England -9 20 £60,000 +17.65% 10
East Midlands -14 10 £49,329 -10.31% 3
North East -1 4 £55,000 +4.76% 2
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 23 (5.20%) Confluence
2 2 (0.45%) CMS
2 2 (0.45%) WordPress
3 1 (0.23%) Apache
3 1 (0.23%) IIS
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.45%) Simulink
5 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.23%) Sketch
5 1 (0.23%) UXPin
5 1 (0.23%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 5 (1.13%) Distributed Ledger
1 5 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (15.61%) SaaS
2 55 (12.44%) AWS
2 55 (12.44%) Azure
3 20 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (4.07%) GCP
5 15 (3.39%) Google Analytics
6 13 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (1.58%) GitHub
10 6 (1.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.36%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.13%) PaaS
12 4 (0.90%) BrowserStack
12 4 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (0.90%) IaaS
13 3 (0.68%) Google Ads
14 2 (0.45%) AWS Fargate
14 2 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.36%) Ethernet
1 6 (1.36%) RS-232
2 4 (0.90%) Bluetooth
2 4 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (0.90%) ZigBee
3 2 (0.45%) Firewall
3 2 (0.45%) HTTP
3 2 (0.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.23%) 3G
4 1 (0.23%) DHCP
4 1 (0.23%) DNS
4 1 (0.23%) Multicast
4 1 (0.23%) SMS
4 1 (0.23%) VLAN
4 1 (0.23%) VPN
4 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.26%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.04%) Looker
3 6 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.36%) Power BI
4 5 (1.13%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.13%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.13%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.13%) SAP BW
4 5 (1.13%) SAP HANA
5 4 (0.90%) Big Data
5 4 (0.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.90%) MySQL
5 4 (0.90%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.68%) Redis
7 2 (0.45%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.45%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.45%) OLTP
7 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 92 (20.81%) Selenium
2 78 (17.65%) Cucumber
3 74 (16.74%) Postman
4 64 (14.48%) JIRA
5 60 (13.57%) Jenkins
6 29 (6.56%) Cypress.io
7 25 (5.66%) Git
8 23 (5.20%) JUnit
9 15 (3.39%) JMeter
9 15 (3.39%) Visual Studio
10 10 (2.26%) Subversion
10 10 (2.26%) WebDriver
11 9 (2.04%) Appium
12 8 (1.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (1.81%) SoapUI
12 8 (1.81%) TeamCity
13 7 (1.58%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.90%) GitLab
14 4 (0.90%) SpecFlow
14 4 (0.90%) Zephyr
General
1 133 (30.09%) Social Skills
2 80 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
3 78 (17.65%) Finance
4 46 (10.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (7.47%) Organisational Skills
6 31 (7.01%) Electronics
7 17 (3.85%) Banking
7 17 (3.85%) Manufacturing
8 14 (3.17%) Public Sector
9 13 (2.94%) Law
10 12 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (2.26%) Legal
11 10 (2.26%) Retail
12 9 (2.04%) Marketing
13 8 (1.81%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.81%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.90%) Automotive
15 4 (0.90%) International Banking
15 4 (0.90%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 105 (23.76%) Lead
2 63 (14.25%) Senior
3 47 (10.63%) Analyst
4 45 (10.18%) Test Manager
5 32 (7.24%) Test Engineer
6 30 (6.79%) Test Leader
6 30 (6.79%) Tester
7 28 (6.33%) QA Engineer
8 24 (5.43%) Test Analyst
9 22 (4.98%) QA Leader
10 15 (3.39%) Engineering Manager
11 14 (3.17%) Developer
12 12 (2.71%) Architect
12 12 (2.71%) Test Automation Engineer
13 11 (2.49%) Penetration Tester
13 11 (2.49%) QA Analyst
13 11 (2.49%) QA Manager
13 11 (2.49%) Software Engineer
13 11 (2.49%) Systems Engineer
14 10 (2.26%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (14.25%) REST
2 30 (6.79%) .NET
3 19 (4.30%) React
4 17 (3.85%) JSON
5 16 (3.62%) .NET Framework
5 16 (3.62%) WebdriverIO
6 13 (2.94%) Web Services
7 11 (2.49%) Gherkin
8 10 (2.26%) Qt
8 10 (2.26%) Spring
8 10 (2.26%) Spring Boot
9 8 (1.81%) Apache Thrift
9 8 (1.81%) HTML
9 8 (1.81%) RESTful
10 7 (1.58%) Playwright
11 6 (1.36%) CSS
11 6 (1.36%) Node.js
12 5 (1.13%) Smart Contracts
12 5 (1.13%) Swagger
13 4 (0.90%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.18%) Product Ownership
2 36 (8.14%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (3.62%) IoT
3 16 (3.62%) Mobile App
4 15 (3.39%) Robotics
5 13 (2.94%) Analogue Electronics
6 12 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.26%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.81%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.58%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.36%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.36%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.13%) Blockchain
12 5 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.13%) SCADA
13 4 (0.90%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.56%) Windows
2 25 (5.66%) Linux
3 10 (2.26%) Ubuntu
3 10 (2.26%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.13%) Android
4 5 (1.13%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (50.68%) Test Automation
2 189 (42.76%) Agile
3 142 (32.13%) Software Testing
4 105 (23.76%) CI/CD
5 83 (18.78%) API Testing
6 82 (18.55%) SDET
7 78 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 72 (16.29%) Mentoring
9 71 (16.06%) Test Management
10 69 (15.61%) Test Scripting
11 67 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 66 (14.93%) BDD
13 62 (14.03%) User Acceptance Testing
14 57 (12.90%) Functional Testing
15 56 (12.67%) Project Management
16 54 (12.22%) DevOps
17 52 (11.76%) Computer Science
18 51 (11.54%) Regression Testing
19 50 (11.31%) Scrum
19 50 (11.31%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 90 (20.36%) Java
2 43 (9.73%) JavaScript
3 42 (9.50%) SQL
4 39 (8.82%) Python
5 26 (5.88%) C#
6 21 (4.75%) C
7 13 (2.94%) C++
8 12 (2.71%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.58%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.13%) Scala
11 4 (0.90%) Bash
11 4 (0.90%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.90%) PHP
11 4 (0.90%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.68%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.68%) Ruby
13 2 (0.45%) COBOL
13 2 (0.45%) REXX
13 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 89 (20.14%) Degree
2 52 (11.76%) ISTQB
3 38 (8.60%) Security Cleared
4 28 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 28 (6.33%) ISEB
5 27 (6.11%) SC Cleared
6 11 (2.49%) OSCP
7 7 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.58%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.58%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.36%) CSPO
8 6 (1.36%) IIBA
9 5 (1.13%) CAPM
9 5 (1.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 5 (1.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (1.13%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.13%) PMP
10 3 (0.68%) CEH
10 3 (0.68%) CISSP
10 3 (0.68%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (44.57%) QA
2 12 (2.71%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.49%) GRC
4 9 (2.04%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.58%) NIST
6 3 (0.68%) COBIT
6 3 (0.68%) GDPR
6 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.45%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (1.36%) Active Directory
1 6 (1.36%) Docker
2 3 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (1.58%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.13%) HP ALM
3 3 (0.68%) Terraform
3 3 (0.68%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.45%) Ansible
5 1 (0.23%) Consul
5 1 (0.23%) Grafana
5 1 (0.23%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.23%) Iperf
5 1 (0.23%) Kibana
5 1 (0.23%) Nmap
5 1 (0.23%) Packer
5 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 42 (9.50%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.11%) Google
3 12 (2.71%) Salesforce
4 7 (1.58%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.13%) HP
5 5 (1.13%) SAP
5 5 (1.13%) UiPath
6 4 (0.90%) IBM
6 4 (0.90%) Oracle
7 3 (0.68%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.68%) Databricks
7 3 (0.68%) Kenshoo
7 3 (0.68%) Micro Focus
7 3 (0.68%) Optimizely
7 3 (0.68%) Splunk
7 3 (0.68%) VMware
8 2 (0.45%) Ahrefs
8 2 (0.45%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.45%) Medallia
8 2 (0.45%) OpenAI