Test Strategy Jobs in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Test Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Strategy over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 486 356 322
Rank change year-on-year -130 -34 +42
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 283 534 774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.87% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.91% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 222 213 418
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,625 £76,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £58,100 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.62% +4.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Test Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,415 58,778 66,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.38% 95.62% 94.04%
Number of salaries quoted 41,129 30,196 41,543
10th Percentile £27,117 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024. 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
South East -45 69 £47,500 -10.38% 25
Midlands +36 66 £50,000 -11.11% 16
West Midlands +39 56 £50,000 -23.08% 12
North of England -65 54 £50,837 -2.24% 18
South West -41 37 £58,700 -2.17% 13
North West -23 31 £51,674 -6.05% 7
East of England -13 22 £60,000 +21.83% 9
Scotland -103 22 £45,000 +2.27% 7
Yorkshire -10 19 £41,000 -18.00% 7
Wales +3 13 £52,500 +5.00% 2
East Midlands -5 10 £49,329 -1.34% 4
North East -4 4 £55,000 +4.76% 4
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 19 (6.71%) Confluence
2 1 (0.35%) IIS
2 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.71%) Simulink
5 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 39 (13.78%) AWS
2 34 (12.01%) Azure
3 31 (10.95%) SaaS
4 12 (4.24%) Google Analytics
4 12 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.83%) GCP
7 7 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.41%) PaaS
9 3 (1.06%) BrowserStack
9 3 (1.06%) Google Ads
9 3 (1.06%) IaaS
10 2 (0.71%) GitHub
10 2 (0.71%) Sauce Labs
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.35%) Firebase
11 1 (0.35%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.35%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.12%) Ethernet
1 6 (2.12%) RS-232
2 4 (1.41%) Bluetooth
2 4 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (1.41%) ZigBee
3 2 (0.71%) Firewall
3 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.35%) DHCP
4 1 (0.35%) DNS
4 1 (0.35%) HTTP
4 1 (0.35%) Multicast
4 1 (0.35%) SMS
4 1 (0.35%) VLAN
4 1 (0.35%) VPN
4 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.18%) Looker
2 4 (1.41%) Data Lake
2 4 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.41%) MySQL
2 4 (1.41%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.71%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.71%) Data Mining
3 2 (0.71%) Redis
3 2 (0.71%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.35%) Power BI
4 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 53 (18.73%) Selenium
2 46 (16.25%) JIRA
3 27 (9.54%) Postman
4 26 (9.19%) Git
5 20 (7.07%) Cucumber
6 15 (5.30%) Visual Studio
7 11 (3.89%) Subversion
8 9 (3.18%) Cypress.io
9 8 (2.83%) SoapUI
9 8 (2.83%) TeamCity
10 7 (2.47%) Appium
11 6 (2.12%) JMeter
11 6 (2.12%) JUnit
12 5 (1.77%) LoadRunner
13 4 (1.41%) Jenkins
13 4 (1.41%) REST Assured
13 4 (1.41%) TestNG
13 4 (1.41%) Zephyr
14 3 (1.06%) GitLab
14 3 (1.06%) TestRail
General
1 113 (39.93%) Social Skills
2 84 (29.68%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (16.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 43 (15.19%) Finance
5 34 (12.01%) Organisational Skills
6 30 (10.60%) Electronics
7 17 (6.01%) Manufacturing
8 16 (5.65%) Banking
8 16 (5.65%) Law
8 16 (5.65%) Legal
9 14 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (4.24%) Marketing
11 10 (3.53%) Public Sector
12 9 (3.18%) Retail
13 8 (2.83%) Aerospace
14 7 (2.47%) Investment Banking
14 7 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.41%) Automotive
15 4 (1.41%) Aviation
16 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 43 (15.19%) Lead
2 35 (12.37%) Test Manager
3 29 (10.25%) Senior
3 29 (10.25%) Test Leader
4 28 (9.89%) Test Engineer
5 27 (9.54%) Tester
6 24 (8.48%) Analyst
7 20 (7.07%) QA Engineer
8 15 (5.30%) QA Leader
9 14 (4.95%) Test Analyst
10 12 (4.24%) Software Engineer
11 11 (3.89%) Applications Engineer
11 11 (3.89%) Business Analyst
12 10 (3.53%) IT Manager
13 9 (3.18%) Developer
13 9 (3.18%) QA Analyst
13 9 (3.18%) QA Test Analyst
13 9 (3.18%) Systems Engineer
14 8 (2.83%) Penetration Tester
14 8 (2.83%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.13%) .NET
2 16 (5.65%) .NET Framework
3 11 (3.89%) Qt
4 9 (3.18%) Spring
4 9 (3.18%) Spring Boot
4 9 (3.18%) Web Services
5 8 (2.83%) Gherkin
6 7 (2.47%) REST
7 6 (2.12%) CSS
7 6 (2.12%) HTML
8 5 (1.77%) SOAP
9 4 (1.41%) JSON
9 4 (1.41%) Playwright
9 4 (1.41%) Swagger
10 3 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (1.06%) WPF
10 3 (1.06%) XML
11 2 (0.71%) WebdriverIO
12 1 (0.35%) DPDK
12 1 (0.35%) Vuex
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.07%) Product Ownership
2 35 (12.37%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (5.65%) IoT
3 16 (5.65%) Robotics
4 15 (5.30%) Mobile App
5 12 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.89%) Analogue Electronics
7 8 (2.83%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.83%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.47%) Credit Derivative
8 7 (2.47%) Derivative
8 7 (2.47%) Fixed Income
8 7 (2.47%) FMCG
8 7 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (2.47%) Hedge funds
8 7 (2.47%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 7 (2.47%) Reference Data
9 6 (2.12%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.95%) Windows
2 22 (7.77%) Linux
3 11 (3.89%) Ubuntu
3 11 (3.89%) Windows 10
4 6 (2.12%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (55.12%) Test Automation
2 111 (39.22%) Agile
3 107 (37.81%) Software Testing
4 76 (26.86%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (23.67%) Test Management
6 59 (20.85%) Test Scripting
7 49 (17.31%) User Acceptance Testing
8 47 (16.61%) Scrum
9 46 (16.25%) Functional Testing
10 45 (15.90%) Computer Science
11 42 (14.84%) CI/CD
12 41 (14.49%) Mentoring
13 39 (13.78%) DevOps
14 38 (13.43%) Regression Testing
15 34 (12.01%) Project Management
15 34 (12.01%) SDLC
16 33 (11.66%) Software Engineering
17 32 (11.31%) Change Management
18 30 (10.60%) End-to-End Testing
18 30 (10.60%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (9.19%) SQL
2 22 (7.77%) Java
3 19 (6.71%) C
3 19 (6.71%) JavaScript
4 18 (6.36%) C#
5 17 (6.01%) Python
6 13 (4.59%) C++
7 4 (1.41%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.06%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.06%) VBA
9 2 (0.71%) Bash
9 2 (0.71%) VB
10 1 (0.35%) Perl
10 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 80 (28.27%) Degree
2 41 (14.49%) ISTQB
3 32 (11.31%) Security Cleared
4 26 (9.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (8.48%) SC Cleared
6 15 (5.30%) ISEB
7 8 (2.83%) OSCP
8 6 (2.12%) CSPO
8 6 (2.12%) IIBA
9 5 (1.77%) CAPM
9 5 (1.77%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.77%) PMP
10 4 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.41%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.06%) Analytics IQ
11 3 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.35%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 1 (0.35%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (32.16%) QA
2 8 (2.83%) GRC
3 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.06%) Docker
2 3 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (1.77%) HP ALM
2 3 (1.06%) vCenter Server
3 2 (0.71%) Grafana
4 1 (0.35%) Ansible
4 1 (0.35%) Iperf
4 1 (0.35%) Kibana
4 1 (0.35%) Nmap
4 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.95%) Google
3 11 (3.89%) Oracle
3 11 (3.89%) Salesforce
4 7 (2.47%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.77%) HP
6 3 (1.06%) Kenshoo
6 3 (1.06%) Micro Focus
6 3 (1.06%) Splunk
6 3 (1.06%) VMware
7 2 (0.71%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.71%) Medallia
7 2 (0.71%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.35%) Databricks
8 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.35%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.35%) SAP
8 1 (0.35%) Talend
8 1 (0.35%) Thales
8 1 (0.35%) Workday