Test Strategy Jobs in the Midlands

Test Strategy
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 268 275
Rank change year-on-year +177 +7 -69
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 208 67 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.06% 0.48% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 0.61% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 18 58 10
10th Percentile £32,200 £37,500 £43,700
25th Percentile £38,250 £46,796 £45,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £50,000 £54,532
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -8.31% +3.87%
75th Percentile £58,438 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 -
England median annual salary £61,500 £55,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +11.82% -16.67% +5.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,185 11,036 8,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.04% 79.45% 96.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,571 7,620 4,353
10th Percentile £26,929 £26,250 £29,800
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,357
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the Midlands

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Test Strategy in the Midlands

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the Midlands over the 6 months to 11 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
East Midlands +156 183 £75,000 +52.04% 18
West Midlands +41 25 £45,500 -9.00% 7
Test Strategy
England

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (1.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.48%) CMS
2 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (5.29%) Azure
2 9 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (0.96%) Power Platform
3 2 (0.96%) PowerApps
4 1 (0.48%) Algolia
4 1 (0.48%) AWS
4 1 (0.48%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.48%) Figma
4 1 (0.48%) GitHub
4 1 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (0.48%) npm
4 1 (0.48%) Power Automate
4 1 (0.48%) Tricentis Tosca
4 1 (0.48%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 179 (86.06%) 5G
1 179 (86.06%) Bluetooth
1 179 (86.06%) GSM
1 179 (86.06%) LTE
1 179 (86.06%) UMTS
1 179 (86.06%) Wi-Fi
1 179 (86.06%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (0.48%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (1.44%) JIRA
1 3 (1.44%) Selenium
1 3 (1.44%) WebDriver
2 2 (0.96%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.96%) NUnit
2 2 (0.96%) Postman
2 2 (0.96%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.48%) Appium
3 1 (0.48%) JMeter
3 1 (0.48%) TestRail
3 1 (0.48%) Vite
General
1 179 (86.06%) Electronics
2 16 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 13 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.33%) Finance
5 7 (3.37%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 180 (86.54%) Test Engineer
2 179 (86.06%) Electronics Engineer
2 179 (86.06%) Electronics Test Engineer
3 7 (3.37%) Analyst
3 7 (3.37%) Credit Risk Manager
3 7 (3.37%) Risk Manager
3 7 (3.37%) Test Analyst
4 4 (1.92%) Developer
4 4 (1.92%) Lead
5 3 (1.44%) Data Manager
5 3 (1.44%) Data Science Manager
5 3 (1.44%) Test Leader
6 2 (0.96%) Senior
6 2 (0.96%) Tester
7 1 (0.48%) Developer in Test
7 1 (0.48%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 1 (0.48%) Power Platform Developer
7 1 (0.48%) Senior Salesforce Administrator
7 1 (0.48%) Software Engineer
7 1 (0.48%) Test Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.44%) PySpark
2 1 (0.48%) .NET
2 1 (0.48%) CSS
2 1 (0.48%) HTML
2 1 (0.48%) JSON
2 1 (0.48%) Middleware
2 1 (0.48%) Playwright
2 1 (0.48%) React
2 1 (0.48%) REST
2 1 (0.48%) Sass
2 1 (0.48%) Visualforce
2 1 (0.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 179 (86.06%) Driving Licence
2 7 (3.37%) Credit Risk
3 2 (0.96%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.48%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.48%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.48%) N-Tier
4 1 (0.48%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.48%) Robotics
4 1 (0.48%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.48%) Android
1 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (86.54%) Mentoring
1 180 (86.54%) Validation
2 179 (86.06%) Coaching
2 179 (86.06%) Customer Requirements
2 179 (86.06%) Verification and Validation
3 12 (5.77%) DevOps
4 11 (5.29%) Test Automation
5 9 (4.33%) Regression Testing
6 8 (3.85%) Agile
6 8 (3.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (3.85%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (3.37%) Line Management
7 7 (3.37%) Manual Testing
7 7 (3.37%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (3.37%) Risk Management
7 7 (3.37%) SDLC
7 7 (3.37%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
8 5 (2.40%) Software Testing
9 4 (1.92%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (1.92%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.85%) SQL
2 4 (1.92%) C#
2 4 (1.92%) JavaScript
2 4 (1.92%) Python
3 2 (0.96%) Java
3 2 (0.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 180 (86.54%) Degree
2 179 (86.06%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.85%) QA
2 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (0.48%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.48%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 7 (3.37%) Avaloq
2 5 (2.40%) SAP
3 2 (0.96%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.48%) HP
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.48%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle