Test Strategy Jobs in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 494 378
Rank change year-on-year +349 -116 -60
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 865 286 463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.18% 0.38% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 0.46% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 90 220 182
10th Percentile £37,475 £36,250 £35,800
25th Percentile £45,857 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £64,688 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £81,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Test Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Test Strategy in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
East of England +184 317 £39,000 -35.00% 21
South East +204 238 £56,250 +18.42% 66
Midlands +161 208 £47,500 -5.00% 30
East Midlands +149 184 £75,000 +52.04% 17
North of England +37 49 £55,000 +8.19% 50
North West +7 33 £55,000 +6.44% 28
South West +106 32 £62,245 +15.80% 29
West Midlands +23 24 £45,500 -9.00% 13
Scotland +119 20 £50,000 +11.11% 17
Yorkshire +50 12 £42,500 +3.66% 17
North East +50 4 £55,000 - 5
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 - 2
Test Strategy
UK

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (0.58%) Confluence
2 3 (0.35%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.35%) CMS
3 1 (0.12%) CICS
3 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.12%) Shopify
1 1 (0.12%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 26 (3.01%) Azure
2 18 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (1.39%) AWS
4 9 (1.04%) SaaS
5 6 (0.69%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (0.58%) BrowserStack
6 5 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (0.58%) GCP
6 5 (0.58%) GitHub
7 4 (0.46%) Google Ads
7 4 (0.46%) Google Analytics
7 4 (0.46%) Sauce Labs
8 3 (0.35%) Google Sheets
8 3 (0.35%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.23%) OCI
9 2 (0.23%) PaaS
9 2 (0.23%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.23%) Slack
9 2 (0.23%) Yarn
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Advertising
Communications & Networking
1 721 (83.35%) 5G
1 721 (83.35%) Bluetooth
1 721 (83.35%) GSM
1 721 (83.35%) LTE
1 721 (83.35%) UMTS
1 721 (83.35%) Wi-Fi
1 721 (83.35%) Wireless
2 1 (0.12%) Broadband
2 1 (0.12%) Internet
2 1 (0.12%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.46%) MySQL
2 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.23%) Relational Database
2 2 (0.23%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.12%) DB2
3 1 (0.12%) Power BI
3 1 (0.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (3.47%) Selenium
2 19 (2.20%) JIRA
3 14 (1.62%) Jenkins
3 14 (1.62%) Postman
4 13 (1.50%) Git
4 13 (1.50%) SpecFlow
5 11 (1.27%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.04%) Appium
6 9 (1.04%) JMeter
7 6 (0.69%) LoadRunner
8 5 (0.58%) IBM UrbanCode
8 5 (0.58%) WebDriver
9 4 (0.46%) Fiddler
9 4 (0.46%) NUnit
10 3 (0.35%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.23%) NeoLoad
11 2 (0.23%) SoapUI
General
1 722 (83.47%) Electronics
2 70 (8.09%) Social Skills
3 62 (7.17%) Finance
4 48 (5.55%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (3.70%) Financial Institution
6 8 (0.92%) Banking
7 5 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (0.58%) Marketing
8 4 (0.46%) Cantonese Language
8 4 (0.46%) Law
8 4 (0.46%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (0.46%) Retail
9 3 (0.35%) Advertising
10 2 (0.23%) Games
10 2 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.23%) Military
10 2 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.23%) Private Banking
10 2 (0.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 735 (84.97%) Test Engineer
2 721 (83.35%) Electronics Engineer
2 721 (83.35%) Electronics Test Engineer
3 28 (3.24%) Credit Risk Manager
3 28 (3.24%) Risk Manager
3 28 (3.24%) Senior
4 23 (2.66%) Lead
5 21 (2.43%) Analyst
6 14 (1.62%) Test Analyst
7 12 (1.39%) Test Leader
8 9 (1.04%) Senior Test Engineer
8 9 (1.04%) Tester
9 8 (0.92%) Developer
9 8 (0.92%) QA Engineer
10 7 (0.81%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (0.81%) QA Leader
10 7 (0.81%) Software Test Engineer
11 6 (0.69%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.69%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (0.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.39%) Playwright
2 9 (1.04%) .NET
3 6 (0.69%) React
4 4 (0.46%) CSS
4 4 (0.46%) GraphQL
4 4 (0.46%) HTML
4 4 (0.46%) Kafka
4 4 (0.46%) REST
5 3 (0.35%) PySpark
5 3 (0.35%) React Native
6 2 (0.23%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.23%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.23%) Jest
6 2 (0.23%) JSON
6 2 (0.23%) NumPy
6 2 (0.23%) Pandas
6 2 (0.23%) RESTful
6 2 (0.23%) Sass
6 2 (0.23%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 721 (83.35%) Driving Licence
2 28 (3.24%) Credit Risk
3 5 (0.58%) Mobile App
3 5 (0.58%) Product Ownership
4 3 (0.35%) Management Information System
4 3 (0.35%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.23%) Cloud Native
5 2 (0.23%) Digital Media
5 2 (0.23%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (0.23%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (0.23%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.12%) BBC
6 1 (0.12%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (0.12%) Digital Signage
6 1 (0.12%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.12%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.12%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.12%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.12%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.69%) Linux
1 6 (0.69%) Windows
2 5 (0.58%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.12%) Android
3 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 731 (84.51%) Mentoring
2 724 (83.70%) Validation
3 723 (83.58%) Coaching
4 721 (83.35%) Customer Requirements
4 721 (83.35%) Verification and Validation
5 63 (7.28%) Test Automation
6 50 (5.78%) Agile
7 44 (5.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 36 (4.16%) CI/CD
9 32 (3.70%) DevOps
10 31 (3.58%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (3.58%) Software Testing
11 30 (3.47%) Line Management
12 29 (3.35%) Risk Management
13 28 (3.24%) Regression Testing
13 28 (3.24%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
14 24 (2.77%) Test Scripting
15 22 (2.54%) User Acceptance Testing
16 20 (2.31%) API Testing
16 20 (2.31%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (2.54%) JavaScript
2 19 (2.20%) Python
3 16 (1.85%) C#
3 16 (1.85%) Java
4 14 (1.62%) SQL
4 14 (1.62%) TypeScript
5 3 (0.35%) C++
6 2 (0.23%) Bash
7 1 (0.12%) C
7 1 (0.12%) Go
7 1 (0.12%) JCL
7 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 728 (84.16%) Degree
2 721 (83.35%) HND
3 8 (0.92%) ISTQB
4 4 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (0.46%) DBS Check
4 4 (0.46%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.23%) CISM
5 2 (0.23%) CITP
5 2 (0.23%) ISEB
5 2 (0.23%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.12%) ACCA
6 1 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.43%) QA
2 6 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (0.69%) NIST
3 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.23%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.23%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.23%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (0.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (1.04%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.35%) Terraform
3 2 (0.23%) Grafana
4 1 (0.12%) CA Service Virtualization
4 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.12%) Kibana
4 1 (0.12%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 28 (3.24%) Avaloq
2 14 (1.62%) Microsoft
3 8 (0.92%) Oracle
4 7 (0.81%) SAP
5 5 (0.58%) Google
6 4 (0.46%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.35%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.23%) YouTube
9 1 (0.12%) Cognos
9 1 (0.12%) Concur
9 1 (0.12%) CyberSource
9 1 (0.12%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.12%) Facebook
9 1 (0.12%) HP
9 1 (0.12%) IBM
9 1 (0.12%) Instagram
9 1 (0.12%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.12%) Splunk