Test Strategy Job Trends in West Wales

Test Strategy
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 7 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 1.56% - 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% - 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £43,500 - -
25th Percentile £45,000 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +108.33%
75th Percentile £48,750 - £63,750
90th Percentile £59,731 - -
Wales median annual salary £49,750 £40,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +24.38% -30.43% +15.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 32 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 68.08% 74.42% 73.49%
Number of salaries quoted 226 25 141
10th Percentile £32,000 £21,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,733 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.51% -11.22% -1.16%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,762 £55,000
90th Percentile £76,201 £59,857 £64,108
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £50,124 £45,000
% change year-on-year -0.25% +11.39% -

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in West Wales

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in West Wales

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Test Strategy

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Salary Histogram in West Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in West Wales over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in West Wales

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Job Locations in West 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 West Wales region over the 6 months to 24 July 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
Swansea - 7 £47,500 - 1
Test Strategy
Wales

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

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub Actions
1 4 (57.14%) Serverless
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Cypress.io
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
1 4 (57.14%) Postman
1 4 (57.14%) REST Assured
1 4 (57.14%) Selenium
1 4 (57.14%) Zephyr
2 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
2 3 (42.86%) GitLab
2 3 (42.86%) JUnit
2 3 (42.86%) Newman
2 3 (42.86%) TestRail
3 1 (14.29%) Burp Suite
3 1 (14.29%) Gatling
3 1 (14.29%) JMeter
3 1 (14.29%) Pa11y
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Lead
2 3 (42.86%) Development Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Software Development Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Test Development Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Test Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Node.js
1 4 (57.14%) Playwright
1 4 (57.14%) Ruby on Rails
1 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
2 3 (42.86%) Jest
2 3 (42.86%) React
2 3 (42.86%) Spring
3 2 (28.57%) Gherkin
4 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
4 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Mainframe
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (85.71%) Security Testing
3 5 (71.43%) Scrum
4 4 (57.14%) Data Strategy
4 4 (57.14%) Microservices
4 4 (57.14%) Test Management
4 4 (57.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (42.86%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (42.86%) BDD
5 3 (42.86%) Community of Practice
5 3 (42.86%) Defect Tracking
5 3 (42.86%) DevOps
5 3 (42.86%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (42.86%) Functional Testing
5 3 (42.86%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (42.86%) Operational Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (42.86%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Ruby
2 4 (57.14%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) ISTQB
1 4 (57.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (57.14%) WCAG
3 3 (42.86%) QA