Test Strategy Job Trends in County Antrim

Test Strategy
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 47 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in County Antrim 0.91% 0.24% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.29% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £48,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - -
75th Percentile £56,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median annual salary £52,500 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 268 339 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 81.21% 81.10% 91.86%
Number of salaries quoted 131 172 203
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,550 £27,999
25th Percentile £33,438 £47,500 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.38% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £80,000 £68,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £77,500
Northern Ireland median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in County Antrim

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Test Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Test Strategy

Test Strategy
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 18 November 2025. 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
Belfast +19 3 £52,500 - 3
Test Strategy
Northern Ireland

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Datadog
1 1 (33.33%) dbt
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Locust
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Front Office
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Business Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Project Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) FinOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) PMO
2 1 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform