Test Strategy Job Trends in Leicester

Test Strategy
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 31 47
Rank change year-on-year -5 +16 -
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 2 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 0.58% 0.53% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.56% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £56,250 - -
25th Percentile £60,000 £28,750 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £32,500 £33,750
Median % change year-on-year +115.38% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £36,250 £36,813
90th Percentile £83,750 - £37,525
Leicestershire median annual salary £70,000 £32,500 £33,750
% change year-on-year +115.38% -3.70% -41.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 284 177 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 83.04% 94.65% 85.67%
Number of salaries quoted 209 95 216
10th Percentile £29,550 £26,400 £27,125
25th Percentile £41,000 £34,375 £38,690
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% -1.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £64,148
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,300 £70,000
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £49,990
% change year-on-year +5.88% -14.98% +5.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Leicester

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Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Test Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Test Strategy

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Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Leicester over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in Leicester

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 (100.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) QA Leader
2 1 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) QA