Test Strategy Job Trends in Hampshire

Test Strategy
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 155 109
Rank change year-on-year +40 -46 +46
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 8 8 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 0.32% 0.29% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.36% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 10
10th Percentile £47,500 - £35,200
25th Percentile £49,750 £36,250 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £52,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -23.64% +30.95%
75th Percentile £90,000 £53,750 £77,813
90th Percentile £106,500 - £97,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £53,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.98% -6.52% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,026 2,225 1,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 80.72% 81.29% 90.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,429 1,337 1,053
10th Percentile £27,250 £32,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £64,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Test Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Test Strategy

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Hampshire over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in Hampshire

Test Strategy
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Portsmouth - 3 £54,500 - 8
Southampton +13 2 £102,500 +95.24% 5
Basingstoke +7 2 - - 9
Hook - 1 - -
Test Strategy
South East

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
1 3 (37.50%) Postman
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Robot Framework
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) TestRail
General
1 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Aerospace
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) QA Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Manual Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Manual Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (37.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Test Management
3 3 (37.50%) User Experience
4 2 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Observability
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Sprint Backlog
4 2 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (25.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) ISTQB
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
3 1 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Grafana
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Nessus
1 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform