Test Strategy Job Trends in the East Midlands

Test Strategy
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 141 104
Rank change year-on-year +15 -37 +23
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 7 6 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.29% 0.21% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.25% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £56,000 £37,375 £31,563
25th Percentile £59,375 £50,313 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £34,875
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +72.04% -36.59%
75th Percentile £76,875 £62,500 £49,813
90th Percentile £82,500 - £53,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -16.13% +29.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,970 2,422 1,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 80.84% 84.27% 92.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,253 1,052 1,039
10th Percentile £25,900 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £51,716
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -8.15% +3.43%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Test Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Test Strategy

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Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in the East Midlands

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Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 December 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
Derbyshire - 4 £62,500 - 3
Leicestershire +20 3 £72,500 +123.08% 3
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) dbt
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Development Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
1 3 (42.86%) PHP Software Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Python Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Python Software Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Software Development Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Test Lead
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Quality Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Clean Code
3 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 3 (42.86%) Data Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) Data Validation
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Validation
5 1 (14.29%) Coaching
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) PHP
2 3 (42.86%) VBA
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (28.57%) QA