Test Strategy Job Trends in England

Test Strategy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 145 477
Rank change year-on-year -241 +332 -120
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 343 945 422
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 2.40% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 2.58% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 231 139 320
10th Percentile £42,706 £38,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,750 £47,500 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% +9.33% -14.77%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £75,625
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £66,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +9.09% -15.38%

All Process & 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 60,519 36,661 75,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.25% 92.99% 82.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,500 19,807 55,411
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,250 £29,175
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £93,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in England

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Test Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Test Strategy

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in England over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

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 7 June 2026. 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
London +46 154 £80,000 - 67
North of England -42 42 £68,076 +23.77% 24
Midlands -149 41 £57,500 +22.34% 25
South East -172 34 £54,500 -5.22% 34
South West -57 29 £52,500 -15.66% 14
East of England -141 28 £70,000 +79.49% 18
West Midlands -22 25 £57,500 +26.37% 22
North West -29 22 £69,973 +27.22% 18
East Midlands -111 16 - - 3
Yorkshire -45 11 £75,000 +76.47% 5
North East -37 9 £53,750 -2.27% 1
Test Strategy
UK

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.75%) Confluence
2 2 (0.58%) Apache
2 2 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.58%) Jupyter
2 2 (0.58%) SAS
2 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.29%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.87%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.29%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.58%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.58%) SAP FI-AR
2 2 (0.58%) Shopify
2 2 (0.58%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.29%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.29%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 75 (21.87%) Azure
2 64 (18.66%) AWS
3 47 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (6.41%) SaaS
5 13 (3.79%) GCP
6 11 (3.21%) GitHub
6 11 (3.21%) Serverless
7 10 (2.92%) Power Platform
8 9 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.46%) Datadog
10 5 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.46%) Tricentis Tosca
11 4 (1.17%) dbt
11 4 (1.17%) PaaS
12 3 (0.87%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.87%) BrowserStack
12 3 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.71%) CHAP
2 5 (1.46%) Broadband
3 4 (1.17%) Wireless
4 3 (0.87%) Network Security
5 2 (0.58%) Firewall
6 1 (0.29%) CTI
6 1 (0.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.50%) NoSQL
2 8 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.46%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.17%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.87%) Db2
5 3 (0.87%) Power BI
6 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.58%) Big Data
6 2 (0.58%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.58%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.58%) MySQL
6 2 (0.58%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.58%) Tableau
7 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.29%) KDB
7 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.29%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 41 (11.95%) Selenium
2 38 (11.08%) JIRA
3 26 (7.58%) Cypress.io
3 26 (7.58%) Postman
4 23 (6.71%) GitLab
5 21 (6.12%) Cucumber
5 21 (6.12%) JMeter
6 17 (4.96%) Git
6 17 (4.96%) Jenkins
6 17 (4.96%) REST Assured
7 10 (2.92%) SpecFlow
8 8 (2.33%) Gatling
8 8 (2.33%) Zephyr
9 7 (2.04%) XCUITest
10 6 (1.75%) LoadRunner
11 5 (1.46%) JUnit
11 5 (1.46%) Locust
11 5 (1.46%) WebDriver
12 4 (1.17%) Appium
12 4 (1.17%) TestNG
General
1 123 (35.86%) Social Skills
2 106 (30.90%) Finance
3 68 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (15.16%) Banking
5 34 (9.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (9.33%) Financial Institution
7 23 (6.71%) Public Sector
8 20 (5.83%) Manufacturing
9 17 (4.96%) Retail
10 14 (4.08%) Electronics
11 13 (3.79%) Law
12 12 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (2.92%) Advertising
14 8 (2.33%) Aerospace
14 8 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (2.04%) Billing
15 7 (2.04%) Marketing
16 5 (1.46%) Back Office
17 4 (1.17%) Automotive
17 4 (1.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 82 (23.91%) Lead
2 67 (19.53%) Senior
3 60 (17.49%) Test Engineer
4 35 (10.20%) QA Engineer
5 33 (9.62%) Test Manager
6 30 (8.75%) Test Leader
7 23 (6.71%) Auditor
8 22 (6.41%) Security Auditor
9 21 (6.12%) Tester
10 20 (5.83%) Internal Auditor
11 19 (5.54%) Software Engineer
12 15 (4.37%) Analyst
12 15 (4.37%) Architect
12 15 (4.37%) Test Automation Engineer
13 14 (4.08%) Lead Software Engineer
13 14 (4.08%) Senior Test Engineer
14 12 (3.50%) Lead Test Engineer
14 12 (3.50%) QA Leader
15 11 (3.21%) QA Automation Engineer
16 10 (2.92%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.66%) Playwright
2 35 (10.20%) React
3 24 (7.00%) .NET
4 18 (5.25%) REST
5 17 (4.96%) Web Services
6 16 (4.66%) Kafka
7 13 (3.79%) Node.js
8 11 (3.21%) RESTful
9 10 (2.92%) Middleware
10 9 (2.62%) Spring
11 8 (2.33%) OAuth
12 7 (2.04%) JSON
12 7 (2.04%) JWT
13 6 (1.75%) AngularJS
13 6 (1.75%) CSS
13 6 (1.75%) Flutter
13 6 (1.75%) HTML
13 6 (1.75%) OAuth2
13 6 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (1.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.12%) Product Ownership
2 30 (8.75%) Management Information System
3 27 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (7.58%) Mobile App
5 19 (5.54%) e-Learning
6 18 (5.25%) Cloud Native
7 15 (4.37%) Onboarding
8 13 (3.79%) Blockchain
9 11 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.62%) Public Cloud
10 9 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.75%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.17%) IoT
12 4 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.87%) Derivative
13 3 (0.87%) Embedded Systems
13 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.87%) Equity Derivative
13 3 (0.87%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.96%) Android
1 17 (4.96%) Apple iOS
2 12 (3.50%) Linux
3 6 (1.75%) Windows
4 5 (1.46%) Unix
5 3 (0.87%) AIX
6 1 (0.29%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (55.69%) Test Automation
2 168 (48.98%) Agile
3 122 (35.57%) CI/CD
4 114 (33.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 88 (25.66%) DevOps
6 82 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (19.53%) Validation
8 62 (18.08%) Software Testing
9 58 (16.91%) End-to-End Testing
10 56 (16.33%) Mentoring
10 56 (16.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 54 (15.74%) User Acceptance Testing
12 52 (15.16%) Coaching
13 48 (13.99%) Analytics
14 45 (13.12%) Non-Functional Testing
15 43 (12.54%) Scrum
16 41 (11.95%) Stakeholder Management
16 41 (11.95%) Test Management
17 40 (11.66%) Performance Testing
18 39 (11.37%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (19.53%) Java
2 47 (13.70%) Python
3 44 (12.83%) JavaScript
4 36 (10.50%) TypeScript
5 34 (9.91%) C#
6 31 (9.04%) SQL
7 8 (2.33%) Go
8 7 (2.04%) Bash
8 7 (2.04%) C++
9 5 (1.46%) C
10 4 (1.17%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.87%) Objective-C
11 3 (0.87%) Perl
11 3 (0.87%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.87%) Ruby
11 3 (0.87%) Rust
12 2 (0.58%) PHP
12 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.29%) JCL
13 1 (0.29%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 51 (14.87%) Degree
2 46 (13.41%) ISTQB
3 27 (7.87%) Security Cleared
4 25 (7.29%) FFIEC
4 25 (7.29%) SC Cleared
5 24 (7.00%) CISA
5 24 (7.00%) CISM
5 24 (7.00%) CISSP
6 23 (6.71%) CGEIT
6 23 (6.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (6.71%) SANS
7 13 (3.79%) DBS Check
8 10 (2.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 8 (2.33%) Master's Degree
10 7 (2.04%) ISEB
11 6 (1.75%) AWS Certification
11 6 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.75%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.17%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (43.44%) QA
2 35 (10.20%) Accessibility
3 29 (8.45%) GDPR
4 25 (7.29%) NIST
5 23 (6.71%) COBIT
6 11 (3.21%) WCAG
7 4 (1.17%) ISO 9001
7 4 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.17%) Software Quality Assurance
8 3 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.87%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.58%) GRC
9 2 (0.58%) IFRS
9 2 (0.58%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.58%) PMO
9 2 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.29%) Def Stans
System Software
1 25 (7.29%) Docker
2 4 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.50%) Terraform
3 8 (2.33%) Grafana
4 3 (0.87%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.29%) Ansible
5 1 (0.29%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (8.16%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.54%) SAP
3 12 (3.50%) Salesforce
4 11 (3.21%) Oracle
5 6 (1.75%) Splunk
6 5 (1.46%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.17%) Pega
8 3 (0.87%) Citrix
8 3 (0.87%) EMC
8 3 (0.87%) Google
9 2 (0.58%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.58%) Ariba
9 2 (0.58%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.58%) Charles River
9 2 (0.58%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.58%) Concur
9 2 (0.58%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.58%) IFS
9 2 (0.58%) OpenText
9 2 (0.58%) SendGrid