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 6 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 208 146
Rank change year-on-year -22 -62 +127
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 52 29 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.53% 0.51% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.54% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 16 12 89
10th Percentile £43,125 £34,200 £41,450
25th Percentile £51,875 £36,188 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £39,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +61.39% -24.04% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £53,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 - £84,999
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +4.17%

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 7,941 5,336 10,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.79% 94.03% 96.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,571 3,782 6,702
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £37,500 £39,623
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +4.35%

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

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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

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 October 2024.

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 6 October 2024. 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 -3 45 £60,600 +55.38% 5
East Midlands -26 5 £51,250 +15.82%
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 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.62%) Azure
2 4 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.85%) AWS
4 1 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.92%) Azure Stack
4 1 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.92%) PaaS
4 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (48.08%) 3GPP
2 2 (3.85%) 5G
2 2 (3.85%) HTTP
2 2 (3.85%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.92%) Bluetooth
3 1 (1.92%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.92%) FlexRay
3 1 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.92%) MySQL
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.92%) Pentaho
2 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) JIRA
1 3 (5.77%) Selenium
2 2 (3.85%) Git
2 2 (3.85%) SpecFlow
2 2 (3.85%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.92%) Postman
3 1 (1.92%) TestComplete
3 1 (1.92%) Zephyr
General
1 25 (48.08%) Telecoms
2 5 (9.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (9.62%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Banking
3 4 (7.69%) Finance
4 3 (5.77%) Investment Banking
4 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Retail
6 1 (1.92%) Automotive
6 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Law
6 1 (1.92%) Legal
6 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (48.08%) Analyst
2 24 (46.15%) Functional Analyst
3 7 (13.46%) Tester
4 5 (9.62%) Senior
4 5 (9.62%) Test Manager
5 4 (7.69%) Lead
5 4 (7.69%) Senior Tester
6 2 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Governance Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Information Governance Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Information Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Information Security Manager
6 2 (3.85%) IT Governance Manager
6 2 (3.85%) IT Manager
6 2 (3.85%) IT Security Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Security Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Software Test Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) .NET
2 3 (5.77%) CSS
2 3 (5.77%) HTML
3 2 (3.85%) React
4 1 (1.92%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.92%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.92%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.92%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.92%) Infotainment
4 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (55.77%) Cybersecurity
1 29 (55.77%) Decision-Making
2 25 (48.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 18 (34.62%) Agile
4 15 (28.85%) Test Automation
5 7 (13.46%) Data Protection
5 7 (13.46%) Mentoring
5 7 (13.46%) Software Testing
5 7 (13.46%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (11.54%) Coaching
6 6 (11.54%) Manual Testing
6 6 (11.54%) Software Engineering
7 5 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (9.62%) DevOps
7 5 (9.62%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (9.62%) Scrum
8 4 (7.69%) API Testing
8 4 (7.69%) CI/CD
8 4 (7.69%) Customer Service
8 4 (7.69%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.62%) Java
2 4 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.77%) C#
3 3 (5.77%) SQL
4 1 (1.92%) C
4 1 (1.92%) C++
4 1 (1.92%) RPG
Qualifications
1 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
1 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.92%) CSPO
2 1 (1.92%) IIBA
2 1 (1.92%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.92%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (76.92%) QA
2 25 (48.08%) NCSC
3 5 (9.62%) Accessibility
4 3 (5.77%) WAI
4 3 (5.77%) WCAG
5 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.85%) GDPR
6 1 (1.92%) Automotive SPICE
6 1 (1.92%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (1.92%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.92%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.85%) Denodo
2 2 (3.85%) Talend
3 1 (1.92%) BT
3 1 (1.92%) IBM
3 1 (1.92%) Informatica
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle
3 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow