Test Strategy Jobs in London

Test Strategy
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 305 345 301
Rank change year-on-year +40 -44 -74
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 87 170 364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.70% 0.71% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.79% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 54 128 286
10th Percentile £43,775 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £59,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £89,375 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £104,625 £112,500 £107,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -12.12% +5.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,045 21,522 31,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.26% 90.48% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,842 15,847 22,804
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in London

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Test Strategy in London

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in London

Test Strategy
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the London 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
Central London -14 9 £90,000 - 3
East London -13 5 £80,000 - 1
North London - 1 £62,500 -
Test Strategy
England

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (2.30%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.94%) Azure
2 8 (9.20%) AWS
2 8 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (5.75%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.60%) GitHub
5 3 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (3.45%) Power Automate
5 3 (3.45%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.30%) SaaS
6 2 (2.30%) Serverless
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.15%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.15%) GCP
7 1 (1.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) 5G
1 4 (4.60%) Bluetooth
1 4 (4.60%) GSM
1 4 (4.60%) LTE
1 4 (4.60%) UMTS
1 4 (4.60%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (4.60%) Wireless
2 2 (2.30%) Firewall
2 2 (2.30%) HTTP
3 1 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.15%) SMS
3 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.30%) Power BI
1 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
1 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.15%) Big Data
2 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.15%) Mixpanel
2 1 (1.15%) MySQL
2 1 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (16.09%) Selenium
2 12 (13.79%) Postman
3 10 (11.49%) JIRA
3 10 (11.49%) JMeter
4 9 (10.34%) Mocha
4 9 (10.34%) SoapUI
5 7 (8.05%) Cypress.io
6 6 (6.90%) Appium
6 6 (6.90%) Grunt
6 6 (6.90%) Jasmine
6 6 (6.90%) Jenkins
6 6 (6.90%) webpack
7 4 (4.60%) SpecFlow
7 4 (4.60%) XCUITest
8 3 (3.45%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.45%) Gatling
8 3 (3.45%) GitLab
8 3 (3.45%) MSTest
8 3 (3.45%) TestRail
8 3 (3.45%) Xcode
General
1 38 (43.68%) Finance
2 33 (37.93%) Social Skills
3 20 (22.99%) Banking
4 13 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (11.49%) Financial Institution
7 9 (10.34%) Retail Banking
8 6 (6.90%) Public Sector
9 4 (4.60%) Electronics
10 3 (3.45%) Law
10 3 (3.45%) Private Banking
11 2 (2.30%) Legal
12 1 (1.15%) Front Office
12 1 (1.15%) Local Government
12 1 (1.15%) Marketing
12 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (21.84%) Lead
2 13 (14.94%) Test Manager
3 11 (12.64%) Developer
3 11 (12.64%) Senior
4 8 (9.20%) Analyst
4 8 (9.20%) Lead Developer
5 7 (8.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 7 (8.05%) Tester
6 6 (6.90%) React Developer
6 6 (6.90%) Test Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Auditor
7 5 (5.75%) Credit Risk Manager
7 5 (5.75%) Internal Auditor
7 5 (5.75%) IT Auditor
7 5 (5.75%) QA Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Risk Manager
8 4 (4.60%) Electronics Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Electronics Test Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) IT Infrastructure Auditor
8 4 (4.60%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.49%) AngularJS
1 10 (11.49%) Jest
1 10 (11.49%) React
2 9 (10.34%) CSS
2 9 (10.34%) Web Services
3 8 (9.20%) JWT
3 8 (9.20%) OAuth
3 8 (9.20%) REST
4 7 (8.05%) JSON
5 6 (6.90%) Ajax
5 6 (6.90%) Bootstrap
5 6 (6.90%) Chai
5 6 (6.90%) Enzyme
5 6 (6.90%) LESS
5 6 (6.90%) MobX
5 6 (6.90%) Next.js
5 6 (6.90%) OAuth2
5 6 (6.90%) OpenID
5 6 (6.90%) Redux
5 6 (6.90%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.20%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (8.05%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.75%) Credit Risk
3 5 (5.75%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.75%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.60%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.30%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.15%) NHS
6 1 (1.15%) State Machine
6 1 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.75%) Apple iOS
2 4 (4.60%) Linux
2 4 (4.60%) Windows
3 1 (1.15%) Android
3 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (50.57%) Test Automation
2 38 (43.68%) Agile
3 26 (29.89%) Software Testing
4 24 (27.59%) CI/CD
4 24 (27.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (26.44%) Mentoring
6 22 (25.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (21.84%) Performance Testing
9 18 (20.69%) Validation
10 17 (19.54%) Test Scripting
11 16 (18.39%) Security Testing
12 15 (17.24%) Test Planning
13 13 (14.94%) SDLC
14 12 (13.79%) Coaching
14 12 (13.79%) Defect Management
14 12 (13.79%) DevOps
14 12 (13.79%) Manual Testing
14 12 (13.79%) SDET
14 12 (13.79%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.39%) SQL
2 15 (17.24%) JavaScript
3 12 (13.79%) Java
4 10 (11.49%) TypeScript
5 8 (9.20%) C#
6 7 (8.05%) Python
7 4 (4.60%) Swift
8 1 (1.15%) C
8 1 (1.15%) C++
8 1 (1.15%) Groovy
8 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (14.94%) Degree
2 11 (12.64%) ISTQB
3 7 (8.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 5 (5.75%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.75%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.60%) HND
6 3 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.30%) CISA
8 1 (1.15%) CISSP
8 1 (1.15%) GCED
8 1 (1.15%) GCIA
8 1 (1.15%) GCIH
8 1 (1.15%) GIAC
8 1 (1.15%) GREM
8 1 (1.15%) GSEC
8 1 (1.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (28.74%) QA
2 4 (4.60%) GDPR
3 3 (3.45%) NIST
4 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.30%) COBIT
5 1 (1.15%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (10.34%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (11.49%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.30%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.15%) Ansible
3 1 (1.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.15%) Puppet
3 1 (1.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (5.75%) Avaloq
2 3 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.30%) Splunk
3 2 (2.30%) VMware
4 1 (1.15%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.15%) Charles River
4 1 (1.15%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.15%) FIS
4 1 (1.15%) Google
4 1 (1.15%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.15%) Solace
4 1 (1.15%) Workday