Test Strategy Jobs in the North West

Test Strategy
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 271 244
Rank change year-on-year +14 -27 +11
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 33 28 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.42% 0.27% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.33% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 19 27 21
10th Percentile £41,550 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,875 £39,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,674 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.44% -6.05% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70,625 £66,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £86,000 - £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £66,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -12.88% +5.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,486 8,394 7,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.93% 81.13% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,793 6,316 3,841
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £81,250
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Test Strategy in the North West

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Manchester +67 21 £55,000 +6.44% 35
Lancashire - 10 £52,000 - 11
Merseyside +29 1 £77,500 +93.75% 9
Cheshire -2 1 - - 21
Test Strategy
England

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (3.03%) CMS
1 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) Azure
2 6 (18.18%) AWS
3 4 (12.12%) GCP
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (6.06%) Google Ads
5 2 (6.06%) PaaS
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.03%) Cloudflare
6 1 (3.03%) Cloudflare Workers
6 1 (3.03%) Datadog
6 1 (3.03%) Google Analytics
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Advertising
6 1 (3.03%) SaaS
6 1 (3.03%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) 5G
1 4 (12.12%) Bluetooth
1 4 (12.12%) GSM
1 4 (12.12%) LTE
1 4 (12.12%) UMTS
1 4 (12.12%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (12.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) MySQL
2 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Selenium
2 6 (18.18%) JIRA
2 6 (18.18%) JMeter
2 6 (18.18%) LoadRunner
3 4 (12.12%) Appium
3 4 (12.12%) Fiddler
3 4 (12.12%) Postman
4 3 (9.09%) Git
5 2 (6.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket
5 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
5 2 (6.06%) NeoLoad
5 2 (6.06%) REST Assured
5 2 (6.06%) WebDriver
6 1 (3.03%) ESLint
6 1 (3.03%) Jasmine
6 1 (3.03%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (3.03%) SpecFlow
6 1 (3.03%) Storybook
6 1 (3.03%) webpack
General
1 19 (57.58%) Finance
2 13 (39.39%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
3 11 (33.33%) Financial Institution
4 5 (15.15%) Electronics
5 4 (12.12%) Cantonese Language
5 4 (12.12%) Mandarin Language
6 2 (6.06%) Law
6 2 (6.06%) Military
6 2 (6.06%) Retail
7 1 (3.03%) Games
7 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.03%) Marketing
7 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Tech for Good
7 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Credit Risk Manager
1 7 (21.21%) Risk Manager
2 6 (18.18%) Test Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Electronics Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Electronics Test Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Lead
3 4 (12.12%) QA Tester
3 4 (12.12%) Tester
4 3 (9.09%) Test Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 2 (6.06%) QA Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) QA Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) QA Leader
5 2 (6.06%) QA Manager
5 2 (6.06%) QA Test Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Security Operations Specialist
5 2 (6.06%) Security Specialist
5 2 (6.06%) Senior
6 1 (3.03%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) React
2 2 (6.06%) Jest
2 2 (6.06%) Kafka
2 2 (6.06%) NumPy
2 2 (6.06%) Pandas
3 1 (3.03%) .NET
3 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.03%) HTML
3 1 (3.03%) JWT
3 1 (3.03%) Loki
3 1 (3.03%) MassTransit
3 1 (3.03%) Material-UI
3 1 (3.03%) MediatR
3 1 (3.03%) Next.js
3 1 (3.03%) Playwright
3 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.03%) React Native
3 1 (3.03%) REST
3 1 (3.03%) Sass
3 1 (3.03%) Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Credit Risk
2 4 (12.12%) Driving Licence
3 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) CMDB
4 1 (3.03%) Digital Signage
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.03%) Online Games
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Agile
2 10 (30.30%) Test Automation
3 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 9 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (27.27%) Test Scripting
4 8 (24.24%) Risk Management
5 7 (21.21%) Line Management
5 7 (21.21%) Mentoring
5 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
6 6 (18.18%) Code Quality
6 6 (18.18%) DevOps
6 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (18.18%) User Experience
6 6 (18.18%) Validation
7 5 (15.15%) Coaching
7 5 (15.15%) Fintech
7 5 (15.15%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (12.12%) Customer Requirements
8 4 (12.12%) Issue Tracking
8 4 (12.12%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) Python
2 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.12%) Java
4 3 (9.09%) SQL
4 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.06%) C#
6 1 (3.03%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Degree
2 4 (12.12%) DBS Check
2 4 (12.12%) HND
2 4 (12.12%) ISTQB
3 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.06%) CISM
3 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (36.36%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.06%) Def Stans
2 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.06%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.06%) Grafana
3 1 (3.03%) Kibana
3 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Avaloq
2 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.12%) Oracle
4 2 (6.06%) Google
5 1 (3.03%) SAP
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow