Test Strategy Jobs with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 410 308 277
Rank change year-on-year -102 -31 +101
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 181 440 899
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 1.03% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 1.07% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 161 336 420
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,774 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,700 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +8.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £96,539 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £91,375
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,936 41,103 64,824
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.64% 96.07% 96.89%
Number of salaries quoted 23,504 28,573 41,309
10th Percentile £33,756 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Strategy trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Strategy.

Test Strategy salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Test Strategy over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Test Strategy salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (4.97%) Confluence
2 3 (1.66%) Apache
2 3 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.66%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.55%) Sketch
2 1 (0.55%) UXPin
2 1 (0.55%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 39 (21.55%) SaaS
2 29 (16.02%) Azure
3 28 (15.47%) AWS
4 13 (7.18%) GCP
5 10 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.42%) Google Analytics
7 7 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (3.87%) PaaS
8 6 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (3.31%) GitHub
8 6 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.21%) BrowserStack
10 3 (1.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.66%) dbt
10 3 (1.66%) IaaS
10 3 (1.66%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.10%) AWS Fargate
11 2 (1.10%) Sauce Labs
11 2 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.31%) Ethernet
1 6 (3.31%) RS-232
2 1 (0.55%) Firewall
2 1 (0.55%) Multicast
2 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.42%) Looker
2 4 (2.21%) Redis
3 3 (1.66%) Big Data
3 3 (1.66%) Power BI
3 3 (1.66%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 59 (32.60%) Postman
2 56 (30.94%) Cucumber
3 45 (24.86%) Jenkins
4 44 (24.31%) Selenium
5 19 (10.50%) JIRA
6 18 (9.94%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.21%) GitLab
8 3 (1.66%) Appium
8 3 (1.66%) Deequ
8 3 (1.66%) Git
8 3 (1.66%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.10%) JBehave
9 2 (1.10%) JMeter
9 2 (1.10%) JUnit
9 2 (1.10%) LoadRunner
9 2 (1.10%) NeoLoad
9 2 (1.10%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.10%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.10%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.55%) git-flow
General
1 35 (19.34%) Analytical Skills
1 35 (19.34%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.47%) Finance
3 19 (10.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (7.18%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.63%) Electronics
6 11 (6.08%) Manufacturing
7 10 (5.52%) Legal
8 8 (4.42%) Banking
9 7 (3.87%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.76%) Retail
11 3 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.66%) Tech for Good
12 2 (1.10%) Automotive
12 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.10%) Police
13 1 (0.55%) Advertising
13 1 (0.55%) French Language
13 1 (0.55%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 42 (23.20%) Senior
2 33 (18.23%) Lead
3 22 (12.15%) Analyst
4 20 (11.05%) Tester
5 14 (7.73%) Test Analyst
6 12 (6.63%) Engineering Manager
7 11 (6.08%) Penetration Tester
7 11 (6.08%) QA Engineer
7 11 (6.08%) Test Engineer
8 10 (5.52%) QA Leader
9 8 (4.42%) Senior Manager
9 8 (4.42%) Test Leader
10 7 (3.87%) Product Manager
10 7 (3.87%) Systems Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Test Manager
11 6 (3.31%) Agile Tester
11 6 (3.31%) Architect
11 6 (3.31%) QA Manager
11 6 (3.31%) QA Tester
11 6 (3.31%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (25.41%) REST
2 17 (9.39%) WebdriverIO
3 9 (4.97%) React
3 9 (4.97%) Spring
3 9 (4.97%) Spring Boot
4 8 (4.42%) Node.js
5 6 (3.31%) .NET
6 3 (1.66%) Great Expectations
6 3 (1.66%) Playwright
7 2 (1.10%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.10%) Swagger
8 1 (0.55%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.55%) CSS
8 1 (0.55%) HTML
8 1 (0.55%) Immutable.js
8 1 (0.55%) JSON
8 1 (0.55%) Laravel
8 1 (0.55%) RESTful
8 1 (0.55%) Visualforce
8 1 (0.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.94%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.18%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (5.52%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (4.42%) Analogue Electronics
4 8 (4.42%) Security Posture
5 7 (3.87%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.21%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.21%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.66%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.66%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.10%) BBC
9 2 (1.10%) Device Driver
9 2 (1.10%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.10%) FMCG
9 2 (1.10%) Infotainment
9 2 (1.10%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.31%) Linux
2 2 (1.10%) Windows
3 1 (0.55%) Android
3 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (39.23%) CI/CD
2 63 (34.81%) API Testing
2 63 (34.81%) Test Automation
3 62 (34.25%) Agile
4 60 (33.15%) BDD
5 46 (25.41%) Software Testing
6 43 (23.76%) Clean Code
6 43 (23.76%) SDET
7 31 (17.13%) Functional Testing
8 29 (16.02%) User Acceptance Testing
9 27 (14.92%) Fintech
9 27 (14.92%) Project Management
10 25 (13.81%) Non-Functional Testing
11 22 (12.15%) Regression Testing
12 21 (11.60%) Mentoring
12 21 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (11.60%) Software Engineering
13 20 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (11.05%) DevOps
13 20 (11.05%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 48 (26.52%) Java
2 22 (12.15%) JavaScript
3 19 (10.50%) Python
4 14 (7.73%) SQL
5 11 (6.08%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.87%) C#
7 5 (2.76%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.66%) Bash
8 3 (1.66%) C
8 3 (1.66%) C++
8 3 (1.66%) Embedded C
8 3 (1.66%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.66%) Ruby
9 2 (1.10%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.55%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.55%) Embedded C++
10 1 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (12.15%) Degree
2 21 (11.60%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.73%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.08%) ISEB
4 11 (6.08%) OSCP
5 10 (5.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (4.97%) ISTQB
7 6 (3.31%) CSPO
7 6 (3.31%) IIBA
8 3 (1.66%) CEH
8 3 (1.66%) CISSP
8 3 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.66%) GIAC
8 3 (1.66%) GPEN
9 2 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.55%) HNC
10 1 (0.55%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (56.35%) QA
2 8 (4.42%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.42%) GRC
3 4 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.66%) GDPR
4 3 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.66%) NIST
5 2 (1.10%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.76%) Docker
2 3 (1.66%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.21%) Grafana
1 4 (2.21%) Kibana
2 3 (1.66%) vCenter Server
3 2 (1.10%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.55%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (9.94%) Google
2 17 (9.39%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.52%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.87%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.21%) Splunk
6 3 (1.66%) Databricks
6 3 (1.66%) VMware
7 2 (1.10%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.55%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.55%) Thales