Test Strategy Job Trends in the West Midlands

Test Strategy
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 173 157
Rank change year-on-year +9 -16 +35
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 14 26 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.26% 0.63% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.69% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 10 11 14
10th Percentile £37,000 £38,250 £36,625
25th Percentile £38,125 £42,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £57,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% +43.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £42,500
90th Percentile £74,785 £77,500 £49,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% -12.90% +29.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,341 3,795 3,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.12% 91.62% 87.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,264 1,687 2,757
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,938 £41,563 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Strategy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Test Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Test Strategy

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in the West Midlands

Test Strategy
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Birmingham +15 8 £65,000 +39.78% 2
Staffordshire -6 3 - - 1
Coventry - 2 £40,000 - 4
Solihull - 1 £60,000 -
Test Strategy
England

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Datadog
3 1 (7.14%) dbt
3 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) LAN
1 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
1 1 (7.14%) WAN
1 1 (7.14%) Wireless
1 1 (7.14%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Postman
2 3 (21.43%) Selenium
3 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 2 (14.29%) JMeter
4 1 (7.14%) Gatling
4 1 (7.14%) Git
4 1 (7.14%) GitLab
4 1 (7.14%) Locust
4 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Development Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) PHP Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Python Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Python Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) QA Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Software Development Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Scala Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Software Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Software Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Playwright
2 2 (14.29%) Spring
2 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 2 (14.29%) XML
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
3 1 (7.14%) Jest
3 1 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile
1 10 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 4 (28.57%) Analytics
2 4 (28.57%) BDD
2 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 3 (21.43%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (21.43%) Clean Code
3 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
3 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
3 3 (21.43%) Data Analytics
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Exploratory Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
3 3 (21.43%) Pair Programming
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) TDD
3 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (21.43%) Validation
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (35.71%) TypeScript
3 3 (21.43%) C#
3 3 (21.43%) Java
3 3 (21.43%) PHP
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) VBA
4 2 (14.29%) Kotlin
4 2 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 2 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
1 1 (7.14%) Juniper
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft