Test Strategy Job Trends in Birmingham

Test Strategy
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 105 85
Rank change year-on-year +12 -20 +61
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 8 22 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.46% 1.17% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 1.26% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 6
10th Percentile £49,000 £34,200 £36,875
25th Percentile £55,250 £38,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £46,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.78% +16.25% -27.27%
75th Percentile £71,131 £58,750 £42,500
90th Percentile £74,857 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £60,500 £57,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +5.22% +43.75% -27.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,377 1,742 1,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 80.01% 92.41% 89.92%
Number of salaries quoted 968 820 930
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,060 £44,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £88,875 £82,500
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 Birmingham

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Test Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Test Strategy

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Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in Birmingham

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Datadog
3 1 (12.50%) dbt
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
1 1 (12.50%) Wireless
1 1 (12.50%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (25.00%) Postman
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) Gatling
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) JMeter
2 1 (12.50%) Locust
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Scala Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Scala Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Scala Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Scala Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Designer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Playwright
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
2 1 (12.50%) Jest
2 1 (12.50%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Collaborative Culture
3 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 3 (37.50%) Pair Programming
3 3 (37.50%) TDD
3 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (25.00%) API Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (25.00%) BDD
4 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) OWASP
4 2 (25.00%) Security Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (12.50%) Observability
5 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (37.50%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) Kotlin
3 2 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
1 1 (12.50%) Juniper
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft