Test Strategy Job Trends in Bournemouth

Test Strategy
Dorset > Bournemouth

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bournemouth requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 19 53
Rank change year-on-year -17 +34 -18
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 1 1 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Bournemouth 0.41% 1.54% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 1.61% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.79%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £42,500
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median annual salary £54,250 £31,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +72.22% -21.25% -15.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bournemouth

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 Bournemouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 219 62 418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bournemouth 90.87% 95.38% 91.27%
Number of salaries quoted 131 45 267
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,750 £71,250
Dorset median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +5.26%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in Bournemouth

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Test Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Test Strategy

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Transformation Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft