Test Strategy Jobs in Manchester

Test Strategy
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 214 198
Rank change year-on-year +73 -16 +19
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 21 11 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.96% 0.20% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.24% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 14 11 18
10th Percentile £41,363 - £46,500
25th Percentile £45,875 £41,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,674 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.44% -6.05% -
75th Percentile £76,875 £53,125 £66,188
90th Percentile £91,625 £62,500 £88,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £51,674 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.44% -6.05% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,092 4,598 4,510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.48% 85.02% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,170 3,481 2,475
10th Percentile £29,975 £30,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,625 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Manchester

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Test Strategy in Manchester

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in Manchester

Test Strategy
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 29 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
Stockport - 2 £76,250 - 12
Bolton - 1 £47,500 - 12
Test Strategy
North West

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (4.76%) CMS
1 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) AWS
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.52%) PaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Cloudflare
4 1 (4.76%) Cloudflare Workers
4 1 (4.76%) Datadog
4 1 (4.76%) Google Ads
4 1 (4.76%) Google Analytics
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Advertising
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) MySQL
2 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Selenium
2 6 (28.57%) JIRA
2 6 (28.57%) JMeter
2 6 (28.57%) LoadRunner
3 4 (19.05%) Appium
3 4 (19.05%) Fiddler
3 4 (19.05%) Postman
4 3 (14.29%) Git
5 2 (9.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket
5 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
5 2 (9.52%) NeoLoad
5 2 (9.52%) REST Assured
5 2 (9.52%) WebDriver
6 1 (4.76%) Jasmine
6 1 (4.76%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (4.76%) LabVIEW
General
1 15 (71.43%) Finance
2 11 (52.38%) Financial Institution
3 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
4 9 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (19.05%) Cantonese Language
5 4 (19.05%) Mandarin Language
6 2 (9.52%) Law
7 1 (4.76%) Electronics
7 1 (4.76%) Games
7 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 1 (4.76%) Marketing
7 1 (4.76%) Retail
7 1 (4.76%) Tech for Good
7 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Credit Risk Manager
1 7 (33.33%) Risk Manager
2 4 (19.05%) QA Tester
2 4 (19.05%) Tester
3 2 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Lead
3 2 (9.52%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) QA Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) QA Leader
3 2 (9.52%) QA Manager
3 2 (9.52%) QA Test Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Test Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Test Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (4.76%) Games Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Junior Software Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) PPC Executive
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Kafka
1 2 (9.52%) NumPy
1 2 (9.52%) Pandas
1 2 (9.52%) React
2 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.76%) CSS
2 1 (4.76%) HTML
2 1 (4.76%) Jest
2 1 (4.76%) Sass
2 1 (4.76%) Web Components
2 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Credit Risk
2 1 (4.76%) Digital Signage
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (4.76%) Online Games
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Agile
2 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 8 (38.10%) Test Automation
2 8 (38.10%) Test Scripting
3 7 (33.33%) Line Management
3 7 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 7 (33.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 7 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (28.57%) Code Quality
5 5 (23.81%) DevOps
5 5 (23.81%) Fintech
5 5 (23.81%) User Experience
6 4 (19.05%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (19.05%) Issue Tracking
6 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (19.05%) Security Testing
6 4 (19.05%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (19.05%) Sprint Retrospective
7 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 2 (9.52%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
3 4 (19.05%) Java
4 3 (14.29%) SQL
5 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.76%) C#
6 1 (4.76%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (42.86%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) Kibana
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Avaloq
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Google