Test Strategy Jobs

Test Strategy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 182 487 349
Rank change year-on-year +305 -138 -63
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 974 476 908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.74% 0.46% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 0.55% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 155 365 518
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,539 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.91% -1.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,256 87,133 91,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.58% 84.04% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,854 60,896 54,581
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Test Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the UK

Test Strategy
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Strategy in the UK

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in the UK

Test Strategy
Top 16 Job Locations

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 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
England +291 941 £60,252 +4.79% 383
UK excluding London +349 865 £55,000 +10.00% 235
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
Work from Home +58 97 £65,000 +14.04% 236
London +27 88 £80,000 -3.03% 185
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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (0.62%) Confluence
2 3 (0.31%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.31%) CMS
3 2 (0.21%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.10%) CICS
4 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.10%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.10%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.10%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 42 (4.31%) Azure
2 28 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (2.16%) AWS
4 12 (1.23%) SaaS
5 11 (1.13%) GitHub
6 8 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (0.82%) Power Platform
7 6 (0.62%) BrowserStack
7 6 (0.62%) GCP
8 5 (0.51%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (0.51%) Google Analytics
8 5 (0.51%) PowerApps
9 4 (0.41%) Google Ads
9 4 (0.41%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.41%) Sauce Labs
9 4 (0.41%) Serverless
10 3 (0.31%) Google Sheets
10 3 (0.31%) PaaS
11 2 (0.21%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 731 (75.05%) Wireless
2 730 (74.95%) 5G
2 730 (74.95%) Bluetooth
2 730 (74.95%) GSM
2 730 (74.95%) LTE
2 730 (74.95%) UMTS
2 730 (74.95%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.31%) Firewall
4 2 (0.21%) HTTP
4 2 (0.21%) Internet
5 1 (0.10%) Broadband
5 1 (0.10%) DHCP
5 1 (0.10%) DNS
5 1 (0.10%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.10%) LAN
5 1 (0.10%) RTP
5 1 (0.10%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.10%) WLAN
5 1 (0.10%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.51%) MySQL
1 5 (0.51%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (0.41%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.31%) Power BI
4 2 (0.21%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.10%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.10%) Big Data
5 1 (0.10%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.10%) DB2
5 1 (0.10%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.10%) Mixpanel
5 1 (0.10%) Redis
5 1 (0.10%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 48 (4.93%) Selenium
2 31 (3.18%) JIRA
3 28 (2.87%) Postman
4 21 (2.16%) Cypress.io
5 20 (2.05%) Jenkins
6 19 (1.95%) JMeter
6 19 (1.95%) SpecFlow
7 18 (1.85%) Appium
8 14 (1.44%) Git
9 12 (1.23%) SoapUI
10 9 (0.92%) Mocha
11 8 (0.82%) LoadRunner
12 7 (0.72%) Jasmine
12 7 (0.72%) NUnit
12 7 (0.72%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.72%) webpack
13 6 (0.62%) Grunt
14 5 (0.51%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.51%) IBM UrbanCode
14 5 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 731 (75.05%) Electronics
2 108 (11.09%) Social Skills
3 102 (10.47%) Finance
4 64 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (4.31%) Financial Institution
6 30 (3.08%) Banking
7 18 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (0.92%) Law
8 9 (0.92%) Retail Banking
9 8 (0.82%) Public Sector
10 7 (0.72%) Marketing
11 6 (0.62%) Retail
12 5 (0.51%) Private Banking
13 4 (0.41%) Advertising
13 4 (0.41%) Cantonese Language
13 4 (0.41%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (0.31%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.31%) Legal
14 3 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.21%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 750 (77.00%) Test Engineer
2 730 (74.95%) Electronics Engineer
2 730 (74.95%) Electronics Test Engineer
3 45 (4.62%) Lead
4 41 (4.21%) Senior
5 33 (3.39%) Credit Risk Manager
5 33 (3.39%) Risk Manager
6 30 (3.08%) Analyst
7 21 (2.16%) Developer
8 20 (2.05%) Test Manager
9 17 (1.75%) Test Leader
10 16 (1.64%) QA Engineer
10 16 (1.64%) Test Analyst
10 16 (1.64%) Tester
11 11 (1.13%) Lead Developer
11 11 (1.13%) QA Leader
12 10 (1.03%) Senior Test Engineer
12 10 (1.03%) Software Engineer
13 9 (0.92%) Business Analyst
13 9 (0.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.16%) Playwright
2 17 (1.75%) React
3 13 (1.33%) AngularJS
3 13 (1.33%) CSS
3 13 (1.33%) REST
4 12 (1.23%) Jest
5 11 (1.13%) .NET
6 10 (1.03%) Web Services
7 9 (0.92%) JSON
7 9 (0.92%) JWT
7 9 (0.92%) OAuth
7 9 (0.92%) React Native
8 8 (0.82%) Kafka
8 8 (0.82%) Sass
8 8 (0.82%) Swagger
8 8 (0.82%) Vue
9 7 (0.72%) HTML
9 7 (0.72%) Material-UI
9 7 (0.72%) Next.js
9 7 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 730 (74.95%) Driving Licence
2 33 (3.39%) Credit Risk
3 15 (1.54%) Mobile App
4 12 (1.23%) Product Ownership
5 9 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (0.41%) Cloud Native
7 4 (0.41%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.31%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.21%) BBC
9 2 (0.21%) Digital Media
9 2 (0.21%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (0.21%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.21%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.21%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.21%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.21%) NHS
9 2 (0.21%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.13%) Linux
2 10 (1.03%) Apple iOS
2 10 (1.03%) Windows
3 2 (0.21%) Android
3 2 (0.21%) Unix
4 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (77.93%) Mentoring
2 748 (76.80%) Validation
3 740 (75.98%) Coaching
4 732 (75.15%) Customer Requirements
5 730 (74.95%) Verification and Validation
6 116 (11.91%) Test Automation
7 98 (10.06%) Agile
8 68 (6.98%) Stakeholder Management
9 66 (6.78%) CI/CD
10 60 (6.16%) Software Testing
11 56 (5.75%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (4.83%) DevOps
13 46 (4.72%) Test Scripting
14 41 (4.21%) Risk Management
15 39 (4.00%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (3.80%) Regression Testing
17 36 (3.70%) SDLC
18 35 (3.59%) Line Management
19 34 (3.49%) Manual Testing
20 33 (3.39%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (4.00%) JavaScript
2 35 (3.59%) SQL
3 31 (3.18%) Python
4 29 (2.98%) C#
4 29 (2.98%) TypeScript
5 28 (2.87%) Java
6 5 (0.51%) C++
7 4 (0.41%) Swift
8 3 (0.31%) C
9 2 (0.21%) Bash
10 1 (0.10%) Go
10 1 (0.10%) Groovy
10 1 (0.10%) JCL
10 1 (0.10%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 748 (76.80%) Degree
2 730 (74.95%) HND
3 19 (1.95%) ISTQB
4 10 (1.03%) Security Cleared
5 8 (0.82%) SC Cleared
6 7 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.41%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.21%) CISA
8 2 (0.21%) CISM
8 2 (0.21%) CITP
8 2 (0.21%) ISEB
9 1 (0.10%) ACCA
9 1 (0.10%) CISSP
9 1 (0.10%) GCIA
9 1 (0.10%) GCIH
9 1 (0.10%) GIAC
9 1 (0.10%) GREM
9 1 (0.10%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (8.52%) QA
2 9 (0.92%) NIST
3 6 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.41%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.41%) GDPR
4 4 (0.41%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.31%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.21%) COBIT
6 2 (0.21%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.10%) SEPA
7 1 (0.10%) SLA
7 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (1.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.10%) Firmware
2 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (2.05%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.51%) Terraform
3 2 (0.21%) Grafana
3 2 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.10%) Ansible
4 1 (0.10%) CA Service Virtualization
4 1 (0.10%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.10%) Kibana
4 1 (0.10%) Opsgenie
4 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (3.39%) Avaloq
2 18 (1.85%) Microsoft
3 8 (0.82%) Oracle
3 8 (0.82%) SAP
4 7 (0.72%) Google
5 4 (0.41%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.31%) IBM
6 3 (0.31%) ServiceNow
6 3 (0.31%) Splunk
7 2 (0.21%) VMware
7 2 (0.21%) YouTube
8 1 (0.10%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.10%) Concur
8 1 (0.10%) Databricks
8 1 (0.10%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.10%) FIS
8 1 (0.10%) Instagram
8 1 (0.10%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.10%) UiPath
8 1 (0.10%) Workday