Test Strategy Job Trends in West Sussex

Test Strategy
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - 75
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 0.35% - 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% - 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 - -
75th Percentile £62,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £54,750 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.45% +15.79% -5.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 380 201 580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 65.74% 91.36% 85.42%
Number of salaries quoted 250 127 388
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,950 £26,025
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,150 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,310 £78,750 £74,125
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Test Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Test Strategy

Test Strategy
Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 3 April 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
Crawley - 1 - - 1
Gatwick - 1 £59,500 - 1
Test Strategy
South East

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (50.00%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) MSTest
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Aviation
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) DOM
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) API Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Multivariate Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Personalization
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Ticket Management
1 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Google