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

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 471 348
Rank change year-on-year +286 -123 -61
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 984 477 969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.76% 0.48% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 0.56% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 169 372 545
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -12.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,813 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £97,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,532
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.97% -4.11%

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 52,544 85,078 94,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.81% 85.26% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,695 59,840 55,939
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,071 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -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 18 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 18 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 +274 952 £60,000 +2.21% 373
UK excluding London +348 878 £55,000 +10.00% 268
East of England +176 317 £39,000 -35.00% 28
South East +212 245 £55,000 +15.79% 88
Midlands +159 211 £55,000 +10.00% 36
East Midlands +133 185 £67,500 +36.84% 19
Work from Home +63 98 £62,500 +6.66% 201
London +31 87 £80,000 -5.88% 171
North of England +41 50 £55,000 +8.19% 55
South West +104 34 £59,515 +1.39% 25
North West +1 33 £55,000 +6.44% 36
West Midlands +17 26 £47,000 -6.00% 17
Scotland +111 20 £50,000 +11.11% 23
Yorkshire +60 13 £46,250 +12.80% 15
North East +36 4 £55,000 - 4
Wales +24 1 - - 9

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 5 (0.51%) Confluence
2 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.20%) CMS
3 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.10%) CICS
4 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.30%) 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 (4.27%) Azure
2 26 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (2.03%) AWS
4 16 (1.63%) SaaS
5 8 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (0.81%) Power Platform
6 7 (0.71%) GitHub
7 6 (0.61%) BrowserStack
7 6 (0.61%) GCP
8 5 (0.51%) Google Analytics
9 4 (0.41%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (0.41%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (0.41%) Google Ads
9 4 (0.41%) PaaS
9 4 (0.41%) PowerApps
9 4 (0.41%) Sauce Labs
9 4 (0.41%) Serverless
10 3 (0.30%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (0.30%) Google Sheets
10 3 (0.30%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 730 (74.19%) 5G
1 730 (74.19%) Bluetooth
1 730 (74.19%) GSM
1 730 (74.19%) LTE
1 730 (74.19%) UMTS
1 730 (74.19%) Wi-Fi
1 730 (74.19%) Wireless
2 2 (0.20%) Firewall
2 2 (0.20%) HTTP
2 2 (0.20%) Internet
3 1 (0.10%) Broadband
3 1 (0.10%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.10%) RTP
3 1 (0.10%) SMS
3 1 (0.10%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.10%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.51%) MySQL
1 5 (0.51%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.41%) Power BI
3 3 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.20%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.10%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.10%) Big Data
5 1 (0.10%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.10%) Data Lake
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 58 (5.89%) Selenium
2 30 (3.05%) Postman
3 29 (2.95%) JIRA
4 23 (2.34%) Cypress.io
4 23 (2.34%) JMeter
5 22 (2.24%) Appium
6 21 (2.13%) SpecFlow
7 17 (1.73%) Jenkins
8 16 (1.63%) Git
9 12 (1.22%) SoapUI
10 9 (0.91%) Mocha
11 8 (0.81%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.81%) LoadRunner
12 7 (0.71%) Jasmine
12 7 (0.71%) NUnit
12 7 (0.71%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.71%) webpack
13 6 (0.61%) Grunt
14 5 (0.51%) JUnit
14 5 (0.51%) TestRail
General
1 733 (74.49%) Electronics
2 110 (11.18%) Social Skills
3 102 (10.37%) Finance
4 68 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.17%) Financial Institution
6 25 (2.54%) Banking
7 16 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (0.91%) Marketing
8 9 (0.91%) Public Sector
8 9 (0.91%) Retail Banking
9 7 (0.71%) Retail
10 5 (0.51%) Law
10 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.41%) Advertising
11 4 (0.41%) Cantonese Language
11 4 (0.41%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (0.30%) Billing
12 3 (0.30%) Games
12 3 (0.30%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.30%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 756 (76.83%) Test Engineer
2 730 (74.19%) Electronics Engineer
2 730 (74.19%) Electronics Test Engineer
3 42 (4.27%) Senior
4 41 (4.17%) Lead
5 33 (3.35%) Analyst
5 33 (3.35%) Credit Risk Manager
5 33 (3.35%) Risk Manager
6 22 (2.24%) Test Manager
7 20 (2.03%) Tester
8 19 (1.93%) QA Engineer
8 19 (1.93%) Test Analyst
9 16 (1.63%) Test Leader
10 14 (1.42%) Developer
11 13 (1.32%) QA Leader
12 12 (1.22%) Senior Test Engineer
13 9 (0.91%) Automation Engineer
13 9 (0.91%) Business Analyst
13 9 (0.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 9 (0.91%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.24%) Playwright
2 16 (1.63%) React
3 13 (1.32%) AngularJS
4 12 (1.22%) Jest
4 12 (1.22%) REST
4 12 (1.22%) Web Services
5 11 (1.12%) .NET
5 11 (1.12%) CSS
6 10 (1.02%) JSON
7 9 (0.91%) JWT
7 9 (0.91%) OAuth
8 8 (0.81%) Sass
8 8 (0.81%) Swagger
8 8 (0.81%) Vue
8 8 (0.81%) XML
9 7 (0.71%) Kafka
9 7 (0.71%) Material-UI
9 7 (0.71%) Next.js
9 7 (0.71%) React Native
10 6 (0.61%) MobX
Miscellaneous
1 730 (74.19%) Driving Licence
2 33 (3.35%) Credit Risk
3 16 (1.63%) Mobile App
4 13 (1.32%) Product Ownership
5 12 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (0.51%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (0.41%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.30%) Client/Server
8 3 (0.30%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.20%) BBC
9 2 (0.20%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.20%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.20%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.20%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.20%) NHS
9 2 (0.20%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.12%) Linux
1 11 (1.12%) Windows
2 10 (1.02%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.20%) Android
4 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 760 (77.24%) Mentoring
2 749 (76.12%) Validation
3 741 (75.30%) Coaching
4 730 (74.19%) Customer Requirements
4 730 (74.19%) Verification and Validation
5 125 (12.70%) Test Automation
6 99 (10.06%) Agile
7 66 (6.71%) CI/CD
7 66 (6.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 63 (6.40%) Software Testing
9 53 (5.39%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (4.88%) Test Scripting
11 46 (4.67%) DevOps
12 40 (4.07%) Risk Management
13 38 (3.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (3.86%) Manual Testing
13 38 (3.86%) Regression Testing
13 38 (3.86%) SDLC
14 37 (3.76%) API Testing
15 35 (3.56%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (4.07%) JavaScript
2 35 (3.56%) SQL
3 34 (3.46%) Python
4 33 (3.35%) C#
5 28 (2.85%) Java
5 28 (2.85%) TypeScript
6 5 (0.51%) C++
7 4 (0.41%) Swift
8 2 (0.20%) Bash
8 2 (0.20%) Groovy
9 1 (0.10%) C
9 1 (0.10%) JCL
9 1 (0.10%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 753 (76.52%) Degree
2 730 (74.19%) HND
3 23 (2.34%) ISTQB
4 11 (1.12%) Security Cleared
5 9 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 9 (0.91%) SC Cleared
6 7 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.51%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.20%) CISM
9 2 (0.20%) CITP
9 2 (0.20%) ISEB
10 1 (0.10%) ACCA
10 1 (0.10%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.10%) CISA
10 1 (0.10%) CISSP
10 1 (0.10%) GCIA
10 1 (0.10%) GCIH
10 1 (0.10%) GIAC
10 1 (0.10%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (9.55%) QA
2 9 (0.91%) NIST
3 6 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.41%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.41%) GDPR
4 4 (0.41%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.30%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.20%) COBIT
6 2 (0.20%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.20%) ISO 22301
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%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (1.73%) Docker
2 2 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.10%) Firmware
3 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (1.83%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.20%) Grafana
2 2 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.20%) Terraform
3 1 (0.10%) Ansible
3 1 (0.10%) CA Service Virtualization
3 1 (0.10%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.10%) Kibana
3 1 (0.10%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.10%) Puppet
3 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (3.35%) Avaloq
2 17 (1.73%) Microsoft
3 9 (0.91%) Oracle
3 9 (0.91%) SAP
4 7 (0.71%) Google
5 5 (0.51%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.30%) IBM
6 3 (0.30%) ServiceNow
6 3 (0.30%) Splunk
6 3 (0.30%) VMware
7 2 (0.20%) YouTube
8 1 (0.10%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.10%) Concur
8 1 (0.10%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.10%) Facebook
8 1 (0.10%) FIS
8 1 (0.10%) Instagram
8 1 (0.10%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.10%) UiPath
8 1 (0.10%) Workday