Test Strategy Job Trends in Scotland

Test Strategy
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 112 167
Rank change year-on-year -25 +55 -11
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 4 29 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.15% 1.08% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 1.17% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 10
10th Percentile - £46,500 £30,888
25th Percentile £52,250 £47,500 £31,478
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £53,750 £44,033
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% +22.07% -5.91%
75th Percentile £65,408 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,603 £65,000 £64,125
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -10.34% +20.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,196 2,473 2,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 80.65% 92.35% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,070 1,051 1,764
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,375 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -8.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Scotland

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Test Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Test Strategy

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in Scotland

Test Strategy
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. 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
Stirling - 2 £54,500 - 1
Glasgow +15 1 - - 1
Edinburgh -25 1 £70,079 +16.80% 8
Test Strategy
UK

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Datadog
1 1 (25.00%) dbt
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Locust
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) TestNG
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Software Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Business Case
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Management
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Change
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Innovation
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) FinOps
2 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform