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 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 173 459 359
Rank change year-on-year +286 -100 -84
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 940 426 797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.94% 0.48% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 0.57% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 139 332 459
10th Percentile £38,100 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,938 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -12.12% +5.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,000 £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 45,477 74,482 83,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.01% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 22,533 54,432 49,691
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,105
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 £98,695 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 28 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 28 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 +178 317 £39,000 -35.00% 26
South East +207 239 £57,500 +21.05% 49
Midlands +160 208 £52,500 +5.00% 28
East Midlands +145 184 £75,000 +52.04% 16
London +40 87 £77,500 -8.82% 154
North of England +36 48 £55,000 +10.00% 42
North West +4 33 £55,000 +6.44% 21
South West +112 32 £62,245 +9.49% 29
West Midlands +30 24 £45,500 -9.00% 12
Yorkshire +54 11 £42,500 +3.66% 17
North East +48 4 £55,000 - 4
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 5 (0.53%) Confluence
2 3 (0.32%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.21%) CMS
3 2 (0.21%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.11%) CICS
4 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
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 38 (4.04%) Azure
2 24 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (1.91%) AWS
4 10 (1.06%) SaaS
5 8 (0.85%) GitHub
5 8 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (0.74%) Power Platform
7 6 (0.64%) BrowserStack
7 6 (0.64%) GCP
8 4 (0.43%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (0.43%) Google Ads
8 4 (0.43%) Google Analytics
8 4 (0.43%) PowerApps
8 4 (0.43%) Sauce Labs
9 3 (0.32%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (0.32%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (0.32%) Google Sheets
9 3 (0.32%) PaaS
9 3 (0.32%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.21%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 730 (77.66%) 5G
1 730 (77.66%) Bluetooth
1 730 (77.66%) GSM
1 730 (77.66%) LTE
1 730 (77.66%) UMTS
1 730 (77.66%) Wi-Fi
1 730 (77.66%) Wireless
2 2 (0.21%) Firewall
2 2 (0.21%) HTTP
3 1 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.11%) SMS
3 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.53%) MySQL
2 4 (0.43%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.32%) Power BI
4 2 (0.21%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.21%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.11%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.11%) Big Data
5 1 (0.11%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.11%) DB2
5 1 (0.11%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.11%) Mixpanel
5 1 (0.11%) Redis
5 1 (0.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (4.47%) Selenium
2 27 (2.87%) JIRA
3 25 (2.66%) Postman
4 19 (2.02%) JMeter
5 17 (1.81%) 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%) GitLab
15 4 (0.43%) TestRail
General
1 731 (77.77%) Electronics
2 94 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 84 (8.94%) Finance
4 52 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (3.72%) Financial Institution
6 26 (2.77%) Banking
7 16 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (0.96%) Retail Banking
9 8 (0.85%) Public Sector
10 6 (0.64%) Law
10 6 (0.64%) Marketing
11 4 (0.43%) Cantonese Language
11 4 (0.43%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (0.43%) Retail
12 3 (0.32%) Advertising
12 3 (0.32%) Legal
12 3 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.32%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.21%) Military
13 2 (0.21%) Police
Job Titles
1 745 (79.26%) Test Engineer
2 730 (77.66%) Electronics Engineer
2 730 (77.66%) Electronics Test Engineer
3 40 (4.26%) Lead
4 31 (3.30%) Senior
5 26 (2.77%) Credit Risk Manager
5 26 (2.77%) Risk Manager
6 25 (2.66%) Analyst
7 20 (2.13%) Test Manager
8 15 (1.60%) Developer
9 14 (1.49%) Test Analyst
9 14 (1.49%) Test Leader
10 13 (1.38%) QA Engineer
10 13 (1.38%) Tester
11 12 (1.28%) QA Leader
12 9 (0.96%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (0.96%) Senior Test Engineer
13 8 (0.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 8 (0.85%) Lead Developer
14 7 (0.74%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.60%) React
2 12 (1.28%) AngularJS
2 12 (1.28%) CSS
2 12 (1.28%) Jest
2 12 (1.28%) Playwright
2 12 (1.28%) REST
3 9 (0.96%) JSON
3 9 (0.96%) JWT
3 9 (0.96%) OAuth
3 9 (0.96%) Web Services
4 8 (0.85%) React Native
4 8 (0.85%) Sass
5 7 (0.74%) .NET
5 7 (0.74%) Material-UI
5 7 (0.74%) Next.js
5 7 (0.74%) Vue
6 6 (0.64%) Enzyme
6 6 (0.64%) HTML
6 6 (0.64%) Kafka
6 6 (0.64%) MobX
Miscellaneous
1 730 (77.66%) Driving Licence
2 26 (2.77%) 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 4 (0.43%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.32%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.21%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.21%) Digital Media
8 2 (0.21%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.21%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.21%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.21%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.11%) BBC
9 1 (0.11%) CCTV
9 1 (0.11%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.11%) NHS
9 1 (0.11%) N-Tier
9 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
4 1 (0.11%) Unix
4 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (80.74%) Mentoring
2 748 (79.57%) Validation
3 740 (78.72%) Coaching
4 731 (77.77%) Customer Requirements
5 730 (77.66%) Verification and Validation
6 103 (10.96%) Test Automation
7 85 (9.04%) Agile
8 59 (6.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 57 (6.06%) CI/CD
10 54 (5.74%) Software Testing
11 47 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (4.47%) DevOps
13 41 (4.36%) Test Scripting
14 36 (3.83%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (3.72%) Regression Testing
16 33 (3.51%) Risk Management
17 31 (3.30%) Manual Testing
18 30 (3.19%) API Testing
18 30 (3.19%) SDLC
19 29 (3.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (3.51%) JavaScript
2 31 (3.30%) SQL
3 24 (2.55%) Python
4 23 (2.45%) C#
4 23 (2.45%) TypeScript
5 22 (2.34%) Java
6 4 (0.43%) Swift
7 3 (0.32%) C++
8 2 (0.21%) Bash
9 1 (0.11%) C
9 1 (0.11%) Go
9 1 (0.11%) Groovy
9 1 (0.11%) JCL
9 1 (0.11%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 747 (79.47%) Degree
2 730 (77.66%) HND
3 18 (1.91%) ISTQB
4 10 (1.06%) Security Cleared
5 8 (0.85%) SC Cleared
6 7 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (0.43%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.21%) CISA
9 2 (0.21%) CISM
9 2 (0.21%) CITP
10 1 (0.11%) ACCA
10 1 (0.11%) CISSP
10 1 (0.11%) GCED
10 1 (0.11%) GCIA
10 1 (0.11%) GCIH
10 1 (0.11%) GIAC
10 1 (0.11%) GSEC
10 1 (0.11%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (7.77%) QA
2 9 (0.96%) NIST
3 6 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.43%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.43%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.43%) GDPR
4 4 (0.43%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.21%) COBIT
5 2 (0.21%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.11%) SLA
6 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 (2.77%) Avaloq
2 16 (1.70%) Microsoft
3 7 (0.74%) SAP
4 6 (0.64%) Google
4 6 (0.64%) Oracle
5 3 (0.32%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.32%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.21%) Splunk
6 2 (0.21%) VMware
6 2 (0.21%) YouTube
7 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.11%) Charles River
7 1 (0.11%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.11%) Cognos
7 1 (0.11%) CyberSource
7 1 (0.11%) Facebook
7 1 (0.11%) HP
7 1 (0.11%) IBM
7 1 (0.11%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.11%) MuleSoft