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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 501 376
Rank change year-on-year +362 -125 -57
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 864 287 475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.22% 0.39% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 0.47% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 91 224 183
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,178 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.91% -3.74%
75th Percentile £64,375 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £81,250
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 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 28 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 28 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 +178 317 £39,000 -35.00% 26
South East +207 239 £57,500 +21.05% 49
Midlands +160 208 £52,500 +5.00% 28
East Midlands +145 184 £75,000 +52.04% 16
North of England +36 48 £55,000 +10.00% 42
North West +4 33 £55,000 +6.44% 21
South West +112 32 £62,245 +9.49% 29
West Midlands +30 24 £45,500 -9.00% 12
Scotland +120 19 £50,000 +11.11% 18
Yorkshire +54 11 £42,500 +3.66% 17
North East +48 4 £55,000 - 4
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
3 2 (0.23%) CMS
4 1 (0.12%) CICS
4 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
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 25 (2.89%) Azure
2 17 (1.97%) 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%) GCP
6 5 (0.58%) GitHub
7 4 (0.46%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (0.46%) Google Ads
7 4 (0.46%) Google Analytics
7 4 (0.46%) Sauce Labs
8 3 (0.35%) Google Sheets
9 2 (0.23%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.23%) OCI
9 2 (0.23%) PaaS
9 2 (0.23%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.23%) Slack
9 2 (0.23%) Yarn
10 1 (0.12%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 721 (83.45%) 5G
1 721 (83.45%) Bluetooth
1 721 (83.45%) GSM
1 721 (83.45%) LTE
1 721 (83.45%) UMTS
1 721 (83.45%) Wi-Fi
1 721 (83.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.46%) MySQL
2 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
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%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.12%) Power BI
3 1 (0.12%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (3.59%) Selenium
2 18 (2.08%) JIRA
3 15 (1.74%) Postman
4 13 (1.50%) Git
4 13 (1.50%) Jenkins
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 (83.56%) Electronics
2 70 (8.10%) Social Skills
3 60 (6.94%) Finance
4 47 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (3.70%) Financial Institution
6 7 (0.81%) Banking
7 5 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (0.58%) Marketing
8 4 (0.46%) Cantonese Language
8 4 (0.46%) Mandarin Language
9 3 (0.35%) Advertising
9 3 (0.35%) Law
9 3 (0.35%) Retail
10 2 (0.23%) Billing
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%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 735 (85.07%) Test Engineer
2 721 (83.45%) Electronics Engineer
2 721 (83.45%) Electronics Test Engineer
3 28 (3.24%) Credit Risk Manager
3 28 (3.24%) Risk Manager
4 27 (3.13%) Senior
5 23 (2.66%) Lead
6 21 (2.43%) Analyst
7 14 (1.62%) Test Analyst
8 12 (1.39%) Test Leader
9 9 (1.04%) QA Engineer
9 9 (1.04%) Senior Test Engineer
9 9 (1.04%) Tester
10 8 (0.93%) QA Leader
11 7 (0.81%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (0.81%) Software Test Engineer
11 7 (0.81%) Test Manager
12 6 (0.69%) Business Analyst
12 6 (0.69%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (0.69%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.39%) Playwright
2 9 (1.04%) .NET
3 5 (0.58%) React
4 4 (0.46%) GraphQL
4 4 (0.46%) REST
5 3 (0.35%) CSS
5 3 (0.35%) HTML
5 3 (0.35%) Kafka
5 3 (0.35%) PySpark
5 3 (0.35%) React Native
6 2 (0.23%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.23%) Jest
6 2 (0.23%) JSON
6 2 (0.23%) NumPy
6 2 (0.23%) Pandas
6 2 (0.23%) Sass
6 2 (0.23%) XML
7 1 (0.12%) Node.js
7 1 (0.12%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.12%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 721 (83.45%) Driving Licence
2 28 (3.24%) Credit Risk
3 5 (0.58%) Mobile App
3 5 (0.58%) Product Ownership
4 4 (0.46%) Onboarding
5 3 (0.35%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.23%) Client/Server
6 2 (0.23%) Digital Media
6 2 (0.23%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (0.23%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.12%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.12%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.12%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.12%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.12%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.12%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.12%) Online Games
7 1 (0.12%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.12%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.12%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.81%) Linux
2 6 (0.69%) Windows
3 5 (0.58%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.12%) Android
4 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 732 (84.72%) Mentoring
2 724 (83.80%) Validation
3 723 (83.68%) Coaching
4 721 (83.45%) Customer Requirements
4 721 (83.45%) Verification and Validation
5 64 (7.41%) Test Automation
6 51 (5.90%) Agile
7 44 (5.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 35 (4.05%) CI/CD
9 31 (3.59%) DevOps
9 31 (3.59%) Software Testing
10 30 (3.47%) Line Management
11 29 (3.36%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (3.36%) Risk Management
12 28 (3.24%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
13 27 (3.13%) Regression Testing
14 24 (2.78%) Test Scripting
15 22 (2.55%) User Acceptance Testing
16 21 (2.43%) API Testing
17 20 (2.31%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (2.43%) JavaScript
2 19 (2.20%) Python
3 16 (1.85%) C#
4 15 (1.74%) Java
5 14 (1.62%) TypeScript
6 13 (1.50%) SQL
7 3 (0.35%) C++
8 2 (0.23%) Bash
9 1 (0.12%) C
9 1 (0.12%) Go
9 1 (0.12%) JCL
9 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 728 (84.26%) Degree
2 721 (83.45%) HND
3 8 (0.93%) ISTQB
4 5 (0.58%) Security Cleared
5 4 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (0.46%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.35%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.23%) CISM
7 2 (0.23%) CITP
7 2 (0.23%) ISEB
8 1 (0.12%) ACCA
8 1 (0.12%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.44%) QA
2 6 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (0.69%) NIST
3 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.35%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.23%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.23%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (0.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (0.93%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.23%) Grafana
2 2 (0.23%) Terraform
3 1 (0.12%) CA Service Virtualization
3 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.12%) Kibana
3 1 (0.12%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 28 (3.24%) Avaloq
2 14 (1.62%) Microsoft
3 8 (0.93%) Oracle
4 7 (0.81%) SAP
5 5 (0.58%) Google
6 3 (0.35%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.35%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.23%) YouTube
8 1 (0.12%) Cognos
8 1 (0.12%) Concur
8 1 (0.12%) CyberSource
8 1 (0.12%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.12%) Facebook
8 1 (0.12%) HP
8 1 (0.12%) IBM
8 1 (0.12%) Instagram
8 1 (0.12%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.12%) Splunk