Test Strategy Jobs in Edinburgh

Test Strategy
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Test Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 99 120
Rank change year-on-year +28 +21 +8
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 14 5 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.61% 0.33% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 0.38% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 14
10th Percentile £45,500 - £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £30,888 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £65,313 £57,500 £64,000
90th Percentile £65,875 £67,250 £71,750
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £43,250
% change year-on-year +11.11% +4.05% -21.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 846 1,331 1,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.13% 88.56% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 360 934 1,082
10th Percentile £26,156 £35,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £38,063 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Test Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Test Strategy in Edinburgh

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) OCI
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Cypress.io
2 2 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) Appium
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Postman
3 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
General
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
2 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 7 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (50.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.14%) Games
4 1 (7.14%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Credit Risk Manager
1 7 (50.00%) Risk Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Test Leader
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Manual Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Playwright
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) React Native
2 1 (7.14%) WebGL
2 1 (7.14%) WebGPU
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Line Management
1 7 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 7 (50.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
1 7 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 7 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) API Testing
3 2 (14.29%) Business Strategy
3 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
3 2 (14.29%) Manual Testing
3 2 (14.29%) Project Management
3 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 2 (14.29%) User Experience
4 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (7.14%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (7.14%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (7.14%) Fintech
4 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
4 1 (7.14%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
2 1 (7.14%) C
2 1 (7.14%) C++
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) ISEB
1 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Avaloq
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk