Test Strategy Job Trends in Swansea

Test Strategy
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 0.72% - 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% - 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £41,750 - -
25th Percentile £42,500 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +108.33%
75th Percentile £47,500 - £63,750
90th Percentile £48,250 - -
West Wales median annual salary £45,000 - £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +108.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 191 41 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 68.46% 82.00% 80.77%
Number of salaries quoted 118 26 129
10th Percentile £35,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,355 £37,733 £46,131
Median % change year-on-year +41.40% -18.20% +13.19%
75th Percentile £68,494 £53,762 £57,500
90th Percentile £79,160 £59,857 £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £45,000 £37,733 £45,000
% change year-on-year +19.26% -16.15% +10.42%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Swansea

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Test Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Test Strategy

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Zephyr
2 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Newman
2 1 (50.00%) Pa11y
2 1 (50.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) Jest
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Chaos Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) WCAG