Test Strategy Jobs in Wales

Test Strategy
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 110 119
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 -35
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 13 18 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.64% 1.08% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.12% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 9 4 21
10th Percentile - £30,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £35,000 £31,475
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +38.89% -20.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £72,350 - £93,750
UK median annual salary £58,700 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.69% +4.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,610 1,606 1,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 79.74% 96.28% 93.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 819 1,137
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,391 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,053 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Wales

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Test Strategy in Wales

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Wales over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in Wales

Test Strategy
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the Wales region over the 6 months to 26 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
South Wales +9 7 £52,500 -12.50% 1
North Wales +1 4 - -
West Wales +4 2 £62,500 +108.33%
Test Strategy
UK

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) BrowserStack
4 1 (7.69%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Selenium
2 5 (38.46%) Postman
3 2 (15.38%) Git
3 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) JUnit
3 2 (15.38%) TestNG
4 1 (7.69%) Appium
4 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.69%) JMeter
4 1 (7.69%) PHPUnit
4 1 (7.69%) REST Assured
4 1 (7.69%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (7.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Influencing Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Automation Test Lead
1 6 (46.15%) Lead
1 6 (46.15%) Test Leader
2 5 (38.46%) Tester
3 4 (30.77%) Integration Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 1 (7.69%) PHP Developer
4 1 (7.69%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) REST
2 4 (30.77%) Web Services
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) JSON
3 1 (7.69%) LAMP
3 1 (7.69%) Laravel
3 1 (7.69%) Playwright
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) SOAP
3 1 (7.69%) Vue
3 1 (7.69%) Vuex
3 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) FMCG
1 4 (30.77%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 11 (84.62%) Software Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Full Stack Development
3 5 (38.46%) Sprint Review
4 4 (30.77%) Acceptance Criteria
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Integration Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Load Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Non-Functional Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Project Delivery
4 4 (30.77%) Regression Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (30.77%) SDLC
4 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
6 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
6 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
2 4 (30.77%) C#
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft