Test Strategy Jobs in England

Test Strategy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 466 356
Rank change year-on-year +291 -110 -81
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 941 423 778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.91% 0.47% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 0.56% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 138 325 455
10th Percentile £38,250 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,252 £57,500 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.79% -12.88% +5.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,750 £97,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in England

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Test Strategy in England

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in England

Test Strategy
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
East of England +184 317 £39,000 -35.00% 21
South East +204 238 £56,250 +18.42% 66
Midlands +161 208 £47,500 -5.00% 30
East Midlands +149 184 £75,000 +52.04% 17
London +27 88 £80,000 -3.03% 185
North of England +37 49 £55,000 +8.19% 50
North West +7 33 £55,000 +6.44% 28
South West +106 32 £62,245 +15.80% 29
West Midlands +23 24 £45,500 -9.00% 13
Yorkshire +50 12 £42,500 +3.66% 17
North East +50 4 £55,000 - 5
Test Strategy
UK

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (0.64%) Confluence
2 3 (0.32%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.32%) CMS
3 2 (0.21%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.11%) CICS
4 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.11%) Shopify
1 1 (0.11%) Sprinklr
1 1 (0.11%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 39 (4.14%) Azure
2 25 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (1.81%) AWS
4 10 (1.06%) SaaS
5 8 (0.85%) GitHub
5 8 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (0.85%) Power Platform
6 6 (0.64%) BrowserStack
6 6 (0.64%) GCP
7 5 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (0.53%) PowerApps
8 4 (0.43%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (0.43%) Google Ads
8 4 (0.43%) Google Analytics
8 4 (0.43%) Power Automate
8 4 (0.43%) Sauce Labs
9 3 (0.32%) Google Sheets
9 3 (0.32%) PaaS
10 2 (0.21%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.21%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 730 (77.58%) 5G
1 730 (77.58%) Bluetooth
1 730 (77.58%) GSM
1 730 (77.58%) LTE
1 730 (77.58%) UMTS
1 730 (77.58%) Wi-Fi
1 730 (77.58%) Wireless
2 2 (0.21%) Firewall
2 2 (0.21%) HTTP
3 1 (0.11%) Broadband
3 1 (0.11%) Internet
3 1 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.11%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.53%) MySQL
1 5 (0.53%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (0.32%) Power BI
3 2 (0.21%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.21%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.11%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.11%) Big Data
4 1 (0.11%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.11%) DB2
4 1 (0.11%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.11%) Mixpanel
4 1 (0.11%) Redis
4 1 (0.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (4.36%) Selenium
2 29 (3.08%) JIRA
3 24 (2.55%) Postman
4 19 (2.02%) JMeter
5 18 (1.91%) SpecFlow
6 16 (1.70%) Jenkins
7 14 (1.49%) Appium
7 14 (1.49%) Git
8 13 (1.38%) Cypress.io
9 10 (1.06%) SoapUI
10 9 (0.96%) Mocha
11 8 (0.85%) LoadRunner
12 7 (0.74%) Jasmine
12 7 (0.74%) NUnit
12 7 (0.74%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.74%) webpack
13 6 (0.64%) Grunt
14 5 (0.53%) IBM UrbanCode
15 4 (0.43%) REST Assured
15 4 (0.43%) TestRail
General
1 731 (77.68%) Electronics
2 94 (9.99%) Social Skills
3 86 (9.14%) Finance
4 52 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (3.72%) Financial Institution
6 27 (2.87%) Banking
7 16 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (0.96%) Retail Banking
9 7 (0.74%) Law
9 7 (0.74%) Public Sector
10 6 (0.64%) Marketing
11 5 (0.53%) Retail
12 4 (0.43%) Cantonese Language
12 4 (0.43%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (0.32%) Advertising
13 3 (0.32%) Legal
13 3 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.32%) Private Banking
14 2 (0.21%) Police
14 2 (0.21%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 745 (79.17%) Test Engineer
2 730 (77.58%) Electronics Engineer
2 730 (77.58%) Electronics Test Engineer
3 40 (4.25%) Lead
4 31 (3.29%) Senior
5 26 (2.76%) Credit Risk Manager
5 26 (2.76%) Risk Manager
6 25 (2.66%) Analyst
7 19 (2.02%) Developer
7 19 (2.02%) Test Manager
8 14 (1.49%) Test Analyst
8 14 (1.49%) Test Leader
9 13 (1.38%) Tester
10 12 (1.28%) QA Engineer
11 11 (1.17%) QA Leader
12 9 (0.96%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (0.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 9 (0.96%) Lead Developer
12 9 (0.96%) Senior Test Engineer
13 7 (0.74%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.70%) React
2 13 (1.38%) AngularJS
2 13 (1.38%) CSS
2 13 (1.38%) Playwright
2 13 (1.38%) REST
3 12 (1.28%) Jest
4 9 (0.96%) JWT
4 9 (0.96%) OAuth
4 9 (0.96%) Web Services
5 8 (0.85%) .NET
5 8 (0.85%) JSON
5 8 (0.85%) React Native
5 8 (0.85%) Sass
5 8 (0.85%) Vue
6 7 (0.74%) HTML
6 7 (0.74%) Material-UI
6 7 (0.74%) Next.js
7 6 (0.64%) Chai
7 6 (0.64%) Enzyme
7 6 (0.64%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 730 (77.58%) Driving Licence
2 26 (2.76%) Credit Risk
3 11 (1.17%) Mobile App
4 9 (0.96%) Product Ownership
4 9 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (0.32%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.21%) Digital Media
7 2 (0.21%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.21%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.21%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.21%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.21%) NHS
7 2 (0.21%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.11%) BBC
8 1 (0.11%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.11%) CMDB
8 1 (0.11%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.11%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.11%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.17%) Linux
2 10 (1.06%) Apple iOS
2 10 (1.06%) Windows
3 2 (0.21%) Android
3 2 (0.21%) Unix
4 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 758 (80.55%) Mentoring
2 748 (79.49%) Validation
3 740 (78.64%) Coaching
4 731 (77.68%) Customer Requirements
5 730 (77.58%) Verification and Validation
6 103 (10.95%) Test Automation
7 85 (9.03%) Agile
8 59 (6.27%) Stakeholder Management
9 57 (6.06%) CI/CD
10 54 (5.74%) Software Testing
11 49 (5.21%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (4.57%) DevOps
13 41 (4.36%) Test Scripting
14 36 (3.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (3.83%) Regression Testing
15 34 (3.61%) Risk Management
16 31 (3.29%) Manual Testing
16 31 (3.29%) SDLC
17 29 (3.08%) API Testing
17 29 (3.08%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (3.51%) JavaScript
2 32 (3.40%) SQL
3 24 (2.55%) C#
3 24 (2.55%) Python
3 24 (2.55%) TypeScript
4 22 (2.34%) Java
5 4 (0.43%) C++
5 4 (0.43%) Swift
6 2 (0.21%) Bash
6 2 (0.21%) C
7 1 (0.11%) Go
7 1 (0.11%) Groovy
7 1 (0.11%) JCL
7 1 (0.11%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 748 (79.49%) Degree
2 730 (77.58%) HND
3 18 (1.91%) ISTQB
4 9 (0.96%) Security Cleared
5 7 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (0.74%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.43%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.21%) CISA
7 2 (0.21%) CISM
7 2 (0.21%) CITP
8 1 (0.11%) ACCA
8 1 (0.11%) CISSP
8 1 (0.11%) GCIA
8 1 (0.11%) GCIH
8 1 (0.11%) GIAC
8 1 (0.11%) GREM
8 1 (0.11%) GSEC
8 1 (0.11%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (7.76%) QA
2 9 (0.96%) NIST
3 6 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.43%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.43%) GDPR
4 4 (0.43%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.32%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.21%) COBIT
6 2 (0.21%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.11%) SLA
7 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (1.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.11%) Firmware
2 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (1.91%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.32%) Terraform
3 2 (0.21%) Grafana
3 2 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.11%) Ansible
4 1 (0.11%) CA Service Virtualization
4 1 (0.11%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.11%) Kibana
4 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (2.76%) Avaloq
2 17 (1.81%) Microsoft
3 7 (0.74%) SAP
4 6 (0.64%) Google
4 6 (0.64%) Oracle
5 4 (0.43%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.32%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.21%) Splunk
7 2 (0.21%) VMware
7 2 (0.21%) YouTube
8 1 (0.11%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.11%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.11%) Databricks
8 1 (0.11%) FIS
8 1 (0.11%) HP
8 1 (0.11%) IBM
8 1 (0.11%) Instagram
8 1 (0.11%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.11%) UiPath
8 1 (0.11%) Workday