Test Strategy Job Trends in the Midlands

Test Strategy
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 202 205 184
Rank change year-on-year +3 -21 +20
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 17 41 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.22% 0.61% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.68% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 13 15 18
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,200 £31,875
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% +43.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,125 £43,438
90th Percentile £74,952 £72,000 £53,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -15.63% +33.33%

All Process & 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 6,373 5,992 4,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.74% 89.69% 88.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,512 2,650 3,662
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Test Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Test Strategy

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the Midlands over the 6 months to 31 December 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 31 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
West Midlands +9 14 £60,500 +5.22% 67
East Midlands -7 6 £62,500 +4.17% 60
Test Strategy
England

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
1 3 (17.65%) dbt
1 3 (17.65%) SaaS
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) GitHub
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Datadog
3 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.88%) PaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) LAN
1 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
1 1 (5.88%) WAN
1 1 (5.88%) Wireless
1 1 (5.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Postman
1 4 (23.53%) Selenium
2 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
2 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) JMeter
3 1 (5.88%) Gatling
3 1 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Locust
3 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Lead
1 5 (29.41%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) QA Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Development Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) PHP Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Python Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Python Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Software Development Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Test Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Automation Test Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Java Scala Developer
4 2 (11.76%) QA Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Scala Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Java Scala Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Scala Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Playwright
2 2 (11.76%) Spring
2 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
2 2 (11.76%) XML
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) Gherkin
3 1 (5.88%) Jest
3 1 (5.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
1 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Test Automation
2 12 (70.59%) Agile
3 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
4 5 (29.41%) Validation
5 4 (23.53%) Analytics
5 4 (23.53%) BDD
6 3 (17.65%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (17.65%) Clean Code
6 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
6 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (17.65%) Data Analytics
6 3 (17.65%) DevOps
6 3 (17.65%) Exploratory Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Manual Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Migration
6 3 (17.65%) Pair Programming
6 3 (17.65%) Performance Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
6 3 (17.65%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
2 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
3 4 (23.53%) C#
4 3 (17.65%) Java
4 3 (17.65%) PHP
4 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 3 (17.65%) VBA
5 2 (11.76%) Kotlin
5 2 (11.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) ISTQB
3 2 (11.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Grafana
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
1 1 (5.88%) Juniper
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft