Test Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 477 339 286
Rank change year-on-year -138 -53 +118
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 483 1,018 2,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 1.00% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 1.05% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 378 578 937
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,800
25th Percentile £44,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,250 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £91,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% +11.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the UK

Test Strategy
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Strategy in the UK

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in the UK

Test Strategy
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 May 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
England -95 433 £58,700 -13.04% 129
UK excluding London -137 287 £50,000 -2.91% 94
London -43 177 £85,000 +6.25% 48
Work from Home -108 170 £58,700 -16.14% 43
South East -52 71 £47,500 -9.95% 22
Midlands +15 68 £50,000 -11.11% 16
West Midlands +37 58 £50,000 -23.08% 11
North of England -55 54 £50,837 -7.57% 21
South West -36 38 £56,850 -5.25% 14
North West -14 31 £51,674 -6.05% 10
Scotland -103 22 £45,000 +4.05% 7
East of England -11 21 £60,000 +21.83% 8
Yorkshire +5 19 £41,000 -18.00% 7
Wales +1 13 £52,500 +5.00% 3
East Midlands -16 10 £49,329 -1.34% 5
North East -4 4 £55,000 +4.76% 4

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.76%) Confluence
2 4 (0.83%) Apache
3 3 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.62%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.62%) CMS
3 3 (0.62%) WordPress
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.41%) Simulink
5 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Sketch
5 1 (0.21%) UXPin
5 1 (0.21%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 5 (1.04%) Distributed Ledger
1 5 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.62%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (13.87%) Azure
2 65 (13.46%) SaaS
3 64 (13.25%) AWS
4 21 (4.35%) GCP
5 17 (3.52%) Google Analytics
6 15 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (2.69%) GitHub
7 13 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (1.86%) PaaS
10 8 (1.66%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (1.24%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.04%) BrowserStack
13 4 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.83%) Datadog
13 4 (0.83%) IaaS
14 3 (0.62%) dbt
14 3 (0.62%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.24%) Ethernet
1 6 (1.24%) RS-232
2 4 (0.83%) Bluetooth
2 4 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (0.83%) ZigBee
3 2 (0.41%) Firewall
3 2 (0.41%) HTTP
3 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.21%) DHCP
4 1 (0.21%) DNS
4 1 (0.21%) Multicast
4 1 (0.21%) SMS
4 1 (0.21%) VLAN
4 1 (0.21%) VPN
4 1 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.07%) Looker
1 10 (2.07%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.45%) Big Data
2 7 (1.45%) Redis
3 6 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.24%) Power BI
4 5 (1.04%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.04%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.04%) MySQL
4 5 (1.04%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.04%) SAP BW
4 5 (1.04%) SAP HANA
5 4 (0.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.62%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.41%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.41%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.21%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.21%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 101 (20.91%) Selenium
2 73 (15.11%) Postman
3 70 (14.49%) Cucumber
4 68 (14.08%) JIRA
5 50 (10.35%) Jenkins
6 30 (6.21%) Cypress.io
6 30 (6.21%) Git
7 26 (5.38%) JUnit
8 15 (3.11%) JMeter
8 15 (3.11%) Visual Studio
9 14 (2.90%) Appium
10 11 (2.28%) SoapUI
10 11 (2.28%) Subversion
10 11 (2.28%) WebDriver
11 9 (1.86%) GitLab
12 8 (1.66%) TeamCity
13 7 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (1.45%) LoadRunner
14 6 (1.24%) TestNG
14 6 (1.24%) TestRail
General
1 154 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 102 (21.12%) Analytical Skills
3 92 (19.05%) Finance
4 59 (12.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (8.28%) Organisational Skills
6 32 (6.63%) Electronics
7 23 (4.76%) Banking
8 21 (4.35%) Law
9 19 (3.93%) Legal
9 19 (3.93%) Public Sector
10 17 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (3.52%) Manufacturing
10 17 (3.52%) Marketing
11 16 (3.31%) Retail
12 8 (1.66%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.66%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.45%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.83%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 105 (21.74%) Lead
2 63 (13.04%) Senior
3 53 (10.97%) Analyst
4 49 (10.14%) Test Manager
5 46 (9.52%) Test Engineer
6 35 (7.25%) Test Leader
6 35 (7.25%) Tester
7 31 (6.42%) QA Engineer
8 26 (5.38%) Test Analyst
9 21 (4.35%) QA Leader
10 15 (3.11%) Business Analyst
11 14 (2.90%) Developer
11 14 (2.90%) Engineering Manager
11 14 (2.90%) Test Automation Engineer
12 13 (2.69%) Software Engineer
13 12 (2.48%) Architect
14 11 (2.28%) Applications Engineer
14 11 (2.28%) Penetration Tester
14 11 (2.28%) QA Analyst
15 10 (2.07%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (11.59%) REST
2 30 (6.21%) .NET
3 17 (3.52%) JSON
3 17 (3.52%) React
3 17 (3.52%) WebdriverIO
4 16 (3.31%) Web Services
5 15 (3.11%) .NET Framework
6 13 (2.69%) Gherkin
7 11 (2.28%) Qt
8 10 (2.07%) Spring
8 10 (2.07%) Spring Boot
9 9 (1.86%) Playwright
10 8 (1.66%) HTML
10 8 (1.66%) Node.js
10 8 (1.66%) RESTful
11 7 (1.45%) Apache Thrift
11 7 (1.45%) CSS
12 5 (1.04%) Smart Contracts
12 5 (1.04%) SOAP
12 5 (1.04%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 41 (8.49%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (3.73%) Mobile App
4 17 (3.52%) IoT
5 16 (3.31%) Robotics
6 13 (2.69%) Analogue Electronics
6 13 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.48%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.28%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.07%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.66%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.45%) Credit Derivative
11 7 (1.45%) Derivative
11 7 (1.45%) Fixed Income
11 7 (1.45%) FMCG
11 7 (1.45%) Hedge funds
11 7 (1.45%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 7 (1.45%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.21%) Windows
2 25 (5.18%) Linux
3 11 (2.28%) Ubuntu
3 11 (2.28%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.24%) Android
4 6 (1.24%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (54.04%) Test Automation
2 206 (42.65%) Agile
3 162 (33.54%) Software Testing
4 104 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
5 103 (21.33%) CI/CD
6 84 (17.39%) Test Management
7 79 (16.36%) API Testing
8 76 (15.73%) Mentoring
9 74 (15.32%) Test Scripting
10 73 (15.11%) User Acceptance Testing
11 70 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 70 (14.49%) SDET
12 69 (14.29%) BDD
13 67 (13.87%) Functional Testing
14 62 (12.84%) Computer Science
15 61 (12.63%) Regression Testing
16 60 (12.42%) DevOps
17 58 (12.01%) Project Management
17 58 (12.01%) Scrum
18 56 (11.59%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 88 (18.22%) Java
2 46 (9.52%) JavaScript
2 46 (9.52%) Python
3 45 (9.32%) SQL
4 31 (6.42%) C#
5 21 (4.35%) C
6 13 (2.69%) C++
7 12 (2.48%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.04%) Bash
8 5 (1.04%) Scala
9 4 (0.83%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.62%) PHP
10 3 (0.62%) VBA
11 2 (0.41%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.41%) Ruby
11 2 (0.41%) VB
12 1 (0.21%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.21%) Perl
Qualifications
1 100 (20.70%) Degree
2 57 (11.80%) ISTQB
3 47 (9.73%) Security Cleared
4 37 (7.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (6.42%) SC Cleared
6 29 (6.00%) ISEB
7 11 (2.28%) OSCP
8 8 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.66%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 7 (1.45%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.24%) CSPO
10 6 (1.24%) IIBA
11 5 (1.04%) CAPM
11 5 (1.04%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 5 (1.04%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.04%) PMP
12 4 (0.83%) ISEB Practitioner
13 3 (0.62%) CEH
13 3 (0.62%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (41.41%) QA
2 12 (2.48%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.28%) GRC
4 9 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.45%) NIST
6 3 (0.62%) COBIT
6 3 (0.62%) GDPR
6 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.41%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (2.07%) Docker
2 7 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (1.24%) Grafana
2 5 (1.04%) HP ALM
2 5 (1.04%) Kibana
2 5 (1.04%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.62%) Terraform
3 3 (0.62%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.41%) Ansible
5 1 (0.21%) Iperf
5 1 (0.21%) Nmap
5 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 46 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.80%) Google
3 12 (2.48%) Salesforce
4 11 (2.28%) Oracle
4 11 (2.28%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.24%) Databricks
5 6 (1.24%) SAP
5 6 (1.24%) Splunk
6 5 (1.04%) HP
6 5 (1.04%) UiPath
7 4 (0.83%) IBM
8 3 (0.62%) Ahrefs
8 3 (0.62%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.62%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.62%) Kenshoo
8 3 (0.62%) Micro Focus
8 3 (0.62%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.62%) Optimizely
8 3 (0.62%) VMware
9 2 (0.41%) Medallia