Test Strategy Jobs in the South West

Test Strategy
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 250 221
Rank change year-on-year +104 -29 -7
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 34 39 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.94% 0.42% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.50% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 14 25 35
10th Percentile £46,178 - £41,834
25th Percentile £46,508 £37,500 £44,769
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,515 £58,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% -2.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £73,852 £83,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,886 £91,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,700 £67,500
% change year-on-year +2.21% -13.04% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,360 7,769 6,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.20% 83.00% 94.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,931 5,597 3,511
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,375 £37,500 £39,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,325
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £80,627
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the South West

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Test Strategy in the South West

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the South West over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in the South West

Test Strategy
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Bristol +70 22 £60,996 -26.07% 10
Wiltshire +48 7 £59,515 +1.39%
Dorset +33 2 £31,500 -21.25% 2
Devon +18 2 £72,500 +45.73% 5
Somerset - 1 £54,282 - 2
Test Strategy
England

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 2 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.82%) BrowserStack
1 3 (8.82%) SaaS
1 3 (8.82%) Sauce Labs
2 2 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.94%) AWS
3 1 (2.94%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) 5G
1 5 (14.71%) Bluetooth
1 5 (14.71%) GSM
1 5 (14.71%) LTE
1 5 (14.71%) UMTS
1 5 (14.71%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (14.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Selenium
2 5 (14.71%) JIRA
3 4 (11.76%) Appium
3 4 (11.76%) Git
3 4 (11.76%) IBM UrbanCode
3 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.76%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.94%) JMeter
4 1 (2.94%) JUnit
4 1 (2.94%) Maven
4 1 (2.94%) Postman
4 1 (2.94%) TestRail
General
1 16 (47.06%) Finance
1 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Financial Institution
4 5 (14.71%) Electronics
5 4 (11.76%) Banking
6 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Police
7 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Credit Risk Manager
1 7 (20.59%) Risk Manager
2 6 (17.65%) Test Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Electronics Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Electronics Test Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Senior
4 4 (11.76%) Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) QA Specialist
4 4 (11.76%) Quality Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Automation Specialist
5 3 (8.82%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Product Manager
6 2 (5.88%) QA Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) Playwright
2 1 (2.94%) Gherkin
2 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Credit Risk
2 5 (14.71%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Windows
2 4 (11.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Stakeholder Management
1 16 (47.06%) Test Automation
2 12 (35.29%) Agile
3 9 (26.47%) Mentoring
4 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 8 (23.53%) Line Management
4 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (23.53%) Software Testing
5 7 (20.59%) Risk Management
5 7 (20.59%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
6 5 (14.71%) Coaching
6 5 (14.71%) Customer Requirements
6 5 (14.71%) DevOps
6 5 (14.71%) Manual Testing
6 5 (14.71%) Regression Testing
6 5 (14.71%) Test Scripting
6 5 (14.71%) Validation
6 5 (14.71%) Verification and Validation
7 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
7 4 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) JavaScript
2 4 (11.76%) Java
3 3 (8.82%) Python
3 3 (8.82%) SQL
4 2 (5.88%) C#
5 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Degree
2 5 (14.71%) HND
3 2 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.88%) CITP
3 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (29.41%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Avaloq
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow