Test Strategy Job Trends in Merseyside

Test Strategy
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside 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 62 59 51
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 +37
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 1 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.16% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.22% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £53,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +27.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile - £61,250 £47,500
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £65,000 £47,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +38.30% -32.86% +27.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 513 457 423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 80.28% 87.88% 88.31%
Number of salaries quoted 299 216 305
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,450 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £55,375 £62,813 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,150 £75,000 £77,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Test Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Test Strategy

Test Strategy
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool - 1 - - 6
Test Strategy
North West

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Google Ads
1 1 (100.00%) Yarn
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ESLint
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Storybook
1 1 (100.00%) webpack
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) MassTransit
1 1 (100.00%) Material-UI
1 1 (100.00%) MediatR
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) React Native
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Product Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google