Test Strategy Jobs in the West Midlands

Test Strategy
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 196 237
Rank change year-on-year +23 +41 -43
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 24 57 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.58% 0.73% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.90% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 14 49 9
10th Percentile £31,800 £37,500 £42,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -13.04% +8.01%
75th Percentile £54,688 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £58,375 £72,500 -
England median annual salary £60,250 £58,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.88% -12.12% +5.60%

All Process and 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 3,753 6,362 5,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.18% 81.41% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,531 4,664 3,160
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,592
25th Percentile £36,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Test Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the West Midlands

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Test Strategy in the West Midlands

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

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 29 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
Birmingham +36 17 £43,500 -13.00% 14
Shropshire +17 2 £55,000 - 20
Staffordshire +23 1 - - 11
Solihull +8 1 £47,500 -5.00%
Warwickshire +2 1 - - 4
Test Strategy
England

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (4.17%) CMS
1 1 (4.17%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.17%) Algolia
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Figma
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.17%) npm
3 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
3 1 (4.17%) Tricentis Tosca
3 1 (4.17%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Selenium
1 3 (12.50%) WebDriver
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) NUnit
2 2 (8.33%) Postman
2 2 (8.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (4.17%) Appium
3 1 (4.17%) JMeter
3 1 (4.17%) TestRail
3 1 (4.17%) Vite
General
1 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (33.33%) Finance
4 7 (29.17%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Analyst
1 7 (29.17%) Credit Risk Manager
1 7 (29.17%) Risk Manager
1 7 (29.17%) Test Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Lead
3 3 (12.50%) Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Test Leader
4 2 (8.33%) Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Developer in Test
5 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Test Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (4.17%) QA Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) QA Leader
5 1 (4.17%) Selenium Test Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Test Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) CSS
1 1 (4.17%) HTML
1 1 (4.17%) JSON
1 1 (4.17%) Middleware
1 1 (4.17%) Playwright
1 1 (4.17%) React
1 1 (4.17%) REST
1 1 (4.17%) Sass
1 1 (4.17%) Visualforce
1 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Credit Risk
2 2 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) N-Tier
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Robotics
3 1 (4.17%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Android
1 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) DevOps
2 9 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 8 (33.33%) Agile
3 8 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 8 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 7 (29.17%) Line Management
4 7 (29.17%) Manual Testing
4 7 (29.17%) Risk Management
4 7 (29.17%) SDLC
4 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.83%) Software Testing
6 4 (16.67%) API Testing
6 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (16.67%) Test Scripting
7 3 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (12.50%) Performance Testing
7 3 (12.50%) Process Improvement
7 3 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) C#
3 2 (8.33%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Avaloq
2 5 (20.83%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) HP
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce