Test Strategy Jobs with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 424 316 273
Rank change year-on-year -108 -43 +93
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 170 417 949
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 1.01% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.05% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 152 320 428
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £40,584
25th Percentile £43,625 £49,938 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,700 £70,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.14% +12.90% +18.10%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,250 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.92% +4.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,857 39,858 66,375
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.38% 96.10% 96.97%
Number of salaries quoted 23,439 27,686 41,025
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Strategy trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Strategy.

Test Strategy salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Test Strategy over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Test Strategy salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (5.29%) Confluence
2 3 (1.76%) Apache
2 3 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.76%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.59%) Sketch
2 1 (0.59%) UXPin
2 1 (0.59%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 35 (20.59%) SaaS
2 28 (16.47%) AWS
3 26 (15.29%) Azure
4 13 (7.65%) GCP
5 8 (4.71%) Google Analytics
6 7 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (4.12%) PaaS
7 6 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.53%) GitHub
7 6 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.35%) BrowserStack
9 3 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.76%) dbt
9 3 (1.76%) IaaS
9 3 (1.76%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.18%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (1.18%) Sauce Labs
10 2 (1.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.53%) Ethernet
1 6 (3.53%) RS-232
2 1 (0.59%) Firewall
2 1 (0.59%) Multicast
2 1 (0.59%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.71%) Looker
2 4 (2.35%) Redis
3 3 (1.76%) Big Data
3 3 (1.76%) Power BI
4 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.59%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 52 (30.59%) Postman
2 51 (30.00%) Cucumber
3 41 (24.12%) Selenium
4 38 (22.35%) Jenkins
5 19 (11.18%) JIRA
6 16 (9.41%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.94%) Appium
8 4 (2.35%) GitLab
8 4 (2.35%) JUnit
8 4 (2.35%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.76%) Deequ
9 3 (1.76%) Git
9 3 (1.76%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.18%) JBehave
10 2 (1.18%) JMeter
10 2 (1.18%) LoadRunner
10 2 (1.18%) NeoLoad
10 2 (1.18%) TestNG
10 2 (1.18%) TestRail
10 2 (1.18%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (18.82%) Social Skills
3 29 (17.06%) Finance
4 19 (11.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (7.06%) Electronics
5 12 (7.06%) Legal
5 12 (7.06%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.47%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.71%) Banking
8 7 (4.12%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.94%) Retail
10 3 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Automotive
11 2 (1.18%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.18%) Police
11 2 (1.18%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.59%) Advertising
12 1 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 36 (21.18%) Senior
2 29 (17.06%) Lead
3 20 (11.76%) Analyst
3 20 (11.76%) Tester
4 14 (8.24%) Test Analyst
5 11 (6.47%) Engineering Manager
5 11 (6.47%) Penetration Tester
5 11 (6.47%) QA Engineer
5 11 (6.47%) Test Engineer
6 8 (4.71%) Test Manager
7 7 (4.12%) QA Leader
7 7 (4.12%) Senior Manager
7 7 (4.12%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (3.53%) Architect
8 6 (3.53%) Product Manager
8 6 (3.53%) Senior Product Manager
8 6 (3.53%) Test Leader
9 5 (2.94%) Agile Tester
9 5 (2.94%) QA Manager
9 5 (2.94%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (22.94%) REST
2 15 (8.82%) WebdriverIO
3 9 (5.29%) React
3 9 (5.29%) Spring
3 9 (5.29%) Spring Boot
4 7 (4.12%) Node.js
5 4 (2.35%) Gherkin
6 3 (1.76%) .NET
6 3 (1.76%) Great Expectations
6 3 (1.76%) Playwright
6 3 (1.76%) Swagger
7 1 (0.59%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.59%) CSS
7 1 (0.59%) HTML
7 1 (0.59%) Immutable.js
7 1 (0.59%) JWT
7 1 (0.59%) Kafka
7 1 (0.59%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.59%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.59%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.65%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (4.71%) Analogue Electronics
4 8 (4.71%) Security Posture
5 7 (4.12%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.35%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.35%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.35%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.76%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.76%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.18%) BBC
9 2 (1.18%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.18%) Device Driver
9 2 (1.18%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.18%) Infotainment
9 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.53%) Linux
2 2 (1.18%) Windows
3 1 (0.59%) Android
3 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (36.47%) CI/CD
2 61 (35.88%) Test Automation
3 60 (35.29%) Agile
4 57 (33.53%) API Testing
5 54 (31.76%) BDD
6 44 (25.88%) Software Testing
7 37 (21.76%) Clean Code
7 37 (21.76%) SDET
8 33 (19.41%) Functional Testing
9 29 (17.06%) User Acceptance Testing
10 27 (15.88%) Non-Functional Testing
10 27 (15.88%) Project Management
11 24 (14.12%) Fintech
11 24 (14.12%) Regression Testing
12 23 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (12.94%) Scrum
14 21 (12.35%) Mentoring
14 21 (12.35%) Software Engineering
15 18 (10.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 44 (25.88%) Java
2 19 (11.18%) JavaScript
3 18 (10.59%) Python
4 11 (6.47%) TypeScript
5 9 (5.29%) SQL
6 5 (2.94%) C#
7 3 (1.76%) Bash
8 2 (1.18%) C
8 2 (1.18%) C++
8 2 (1.18%) Embedded C
8 2 (1.18%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.18%) Ruby
9 1 (0.59%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (12.35%) Degree
2 18 (10.59%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.47%) OSCP
3 11 (6.47%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.88%) ISEB
5 8 (4.71%) ISTQB
6 7 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.53%) CSPO
7 6 (3.53%) IIBA
8 3 (1.76%) CEH
8 3 (1.76%) CISSP
8 3 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.76%) GIAC
8 3 (1.76%) GPEN
9 2 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.59%) HNC
10 1 (0.59%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (54.12%) QA
2 8 (4.71%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.71%) GRC
3 3 (1.76%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.76%) GDPR
3 3 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.76%) NIST
4 2 (1.18%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.94%) Docker
2 3 (1.76%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.35%) Grafana
1 4 (2.35%) Kibana
2 3 (1.76%) vCenter Server
3 2 (1.18%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (10.59%) Google
2 15 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.12%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.35%) Splunk
6 3 (1.76%) Databricks
6 3 (1.76%) VMware
7 2 (1.18%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.59%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.59%) Telerik
8 1 (0.59%) Thales