Test Strategy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 468 332 289
Rank change year-on-year -136 -43 +112
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 492 1,093 2,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 1.04% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 1.09% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 385 616 924
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,700 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 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
England -93 442 £60,000 -8.75% 169
UK excluding London -154 280 £50,000 -2.91% 115
London -32 192 £85,000 +6.25% 70
Work from Home -97 181 £58,700 -13.04% 70
South East -38 70 £47,500 -7.77% 27
Midlands +26 65 £50,000 -13.04% 19
West Midlands +39 55 £50,000 -23.08% 15
North of England -81 54 £50,837 -0.32% 24
South West -42 36 £58,700 -2.17% 14
North West -20 30 £51,674 -6.05% 16
Scotland -102 22 £45,000 +1.12% 10
East of England -5 20 £60,000 +17.65% 14
Yorkshire -6 20 £41,000 -16.33% 6
Wales 0 13 £52,500 +5.00% 2
East Midlands -16 10 £49,329 -6.04% 4
North East 0 4 £55,000 +4.76% 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 23 (4.67%) Confluence
2 4 (0.81%) Apache
3 3 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.61%) CMS
3 3 (0.61%) WordPress
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.20%) IIS
5 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.41%) Simulink
5 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.20%) Sketch
5 1 (0.20%) UXPin
5 1 (0.20%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 5 (1.02%) Distributed Ledger
1 5 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (14.23%) Azure
2 68 (13.82%) SaaS
3 62 (12.60%) AWS
4 21 (4.27%) GCP
5 19 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (3.46%) Google Analytics
7 13 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (2.24%) GitHub
9 10 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (1.83%) PaaS
11 8 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (1.22%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.02%) BrowserStack
14 4 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (0.81%) IaaS
15 3 (0.61%) dbt
15 3 (0.61%) Google Ads
16 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.22%) Ethernet
1 6 (1.22%) RS-232
2 4 (0.81%) Bluetooth
2 4 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (0.81%) ZigBee
3 2 (0.41%) Firewall
3 2 (0.41%) HTTP
3 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.20%) 3G
4 1 (0.20%) DHCP
4 1 (0.20%) DNS
4 1 (0.20%) Multicast
4 1 (0.20%) SMS
4 1 (0.20%) VLAN
4 1 (0.20%) VPN
4 1 (0.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.64%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.03%) Looker
3 7 (1.42%) Big Data
3 7 (1.42%) Redis
4 6 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.22%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.22%) Power BI
5 5 (1.02%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.02%) MySQL
5 5 (1.02%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.02%) SAP BW
5 5 (1.02%) SAP HANA
6 4 (0.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.61%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.41%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.41%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.41%) OLTP
9 1 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.20%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 101 (20.53%) Selenium
2 81 (16.46%) Postman
3 76 (15.45%) Cucumber
4 68 (13.82%) JIRA
5 59 (11.99%) Jenkins
6 31 (6.30%) Cypress.io
7 29 (5.89%) Git
8 25 (5.08%) JUnit
9 16 (3.25%) JMeter
10 15 (3.05%) Visual Studio
11 12 (2.44%) Appium
12 11 (2.24%) Subversion
13 10 (2.03%) WebDriver
14 9 (1.83%) SoapUI
15 8 (1.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 8 (1.63%) GitLab
15 8 (1.63%) LoadRunner
15 8 (1.63%) TeamCity
16 5 (1.02%) REST Assured
16 5 (1.02%) SpecFlow
General
1 158 (32.11%) Social Skills
2 103 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
3 93 (18.90%) Finance
4 58 (11.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (7.93%) Organisational Skills
6 32 (6.50%) Electronics
7 24 (4.88%) Banking
8 21 (4.27%) Law
9 20 (4.07%) Public Sector
10 17 (3.46%) Legal
10 17 (3.46%) Manufacturing
10 17 (3.46%) Marketing
11 16 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (3.05%) Retail
13 8 (1.63%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.63%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.42%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.81%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 112 (22.76%) Lead
2 67 (13.62%) Senior
3 57 (11.59%) Analyst
4 45 (9.15%) Test Manager
5 44 (8.94%) Test Engineer
6 38 (7.72%) Test Leader
7 36 (7.32%) Tester
8 32 (6.50%) QA Engineer
9 26 (5.28%) Test Analyst
10 23 (4.67%) QA Leader
11 17 (3.46%) Business Analyst
12 15 (3.05%) Engineering Manager
13 14 (2.85%) Developer
14 12 (2.44%) Architect
14 12 (2.44%) Software Engineer
14 12 (2.44%) Test Automation Engineer
15 11 (2.24%) Applications Engineer
15 11 (2.24%) QA Analyst
15 11 (2.24%) QA Manager
15 11 (2.24%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (13.21%) REST
2 35 (7.11%) .NET
3 19 (3.86%) WebdriverIO
4 18 (3.66%) JSON
4 18 (3.66%) React
5 17 (3.46%) Web Services
6 16 (3.25%) .NET Framework
7 11 (2.24%) Gherkin
7 11 (2.24%) Qt
8 10 (2.03%) Spring
8 10 (2.03%) Spring Boot
9 9 (1.83%) HTML
9 9 (1.83%) Node.js
10 8 (1.63%) Apache Thrift
10 8 (1.63%) RESTful
11 7 (1.42%) CSS
11 7 (1.42%) Playwright
12 5 (1.02%) Smart Contracts
12 5 (1.02%) SOAP
12 5 (1.02%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 47 (9.55%) Product Ownership
2 40 (8.13%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (3.46%) IoT
4 16 (3.25%) Mobile App
4 16 (3.25%) Robotics
5 13 (2.64%) Analogue Electronics
5 13 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.44%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.24%) Algorithms
7 11 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.03%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.63%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.42%) Credit Derivative
10 7 (1.42%) Derivative
10 7 (1.42%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.42%) FMCG
10 7 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.42%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.42%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.30%) Windows
2 27 (5.49%) Linux
3 11 (2.24%) Ubuntu
3 11 (2.24%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.22%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.02%) Android
6 4 (0.81%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (53.05%) Test Automation
2 207 (42.07%) Agile
3 166 (33.74%) Software Testing
4 111 (22.56%) CI/CD
5 103 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
6 85 (17.28%) API Testing
7 79 (16.06%) Test Scripting
8 78 (15.85%) SDET
8 78 (15.85%) Test Management
9 75 (15.24%) BDD
10 74 (15.04%) Mentoring
11 71 (14.43%) User Acceptance Testing
12 67 (13.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 64 (13.01%) Functional Testing
14 63 (12.80%) DevOps
15 62 (12.60%) Computer Science
16 59 (11.99%) Regression Testing
17 57 (11.59%) Project Management
18 55 (11.18%) Scrum
19 54 (10.98%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 92 (18.70%) Java
2 53 (10.77%) SQL
3 52 (10.57%) JavaScript
4 47 (9.55%) Python
5 33 (6.71%) C#
6 22 (4.47%) C
7 14 (2.85%) C++
8 12 (2.44%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.22%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.02%) PHP
10 5 (1.02%) Scala
11 4 (0.81%) Bash
11 4 (0.81%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.81%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.61%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.61%) Ruby
12 3 (0.61%) VBA
13 2 (0.41%) REXX
13 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 101 (20.53%) Degree
2 55 (11.18%) ISTQB
3 47 (9.55%) Security Cleared
4 36 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (6.50%) SC Cleared
6 28 (5.69%) ISEB
7 11 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.24%) OSCP
8 7 (1.42%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 7 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.22%) CSPO
9 6 (1.22%) IIBA
10 5 (1.02%) CAPM
10 5 (1.02%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 5 (1.02%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.02%) PMP
11 3 (0.61%) CEH
11 3 (0.61%) CISSP
11 3 (0.61%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (42.68%) QA
2 12 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.24%) GRC
4 7 (1.42%) NIST
5 3 (0.61%) COBIT
5 3 (0.61%) GDPR
5 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.41%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (2.24%) Docker
2 7 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (1.22%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.02%) Grafana
2 5 (1.02%) HP ALM
2 5 (1.02%) Kibana
3 3 (0.61%) Terraform
3 3 (0.61%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.41%) Ansible
5 1 (0.20%) Consul
5 1 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.20%) Iperf
5 1 (0.20%) Nmap
5 1 (0.20%) Packer
5 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 50 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.89%) Google
3 12 (2.44%) Salesforce
4 11 (2.24%) Oracle
4 11 (2.24%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.42%) Splunk
6 6 (1.22%) Databricks
7 5 (1.02%) HP
7 5 (1.02%) SAP
7 5 (1.02%) UiPath
8 4 (0.81%) IBM
9 3 (0.61%) Ahrefs
9 3 (0.61%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.61%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.61%) Kenshoo
9 3 (0.61%) Micro Focus
9 3 (0.61%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.61%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.61%) VMware
10 2 (0.41%) CA Agile Central