Test Strategy Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Test Strategy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 410 311
Rank change year-on-year +81 -99 -33
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 103 177 422
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.63% 0.52% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.57% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 84 156 323
10th Percentile £41,888 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,313 £44,750 £49,266
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £58,700 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +8.60% -14.71% +11.00%
75th Percentile £78,125 £95,385 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,181 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £59,800 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -11.54% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,361 31,014 40,730
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.62% 91.60% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9,801 23,557 28,305
10th Percentile £29,913 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Strategy trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Test Strategy over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

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 2 (1.94%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.94%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.97%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.97%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.97%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.97%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (23.30%) Azure
2 14 (13.59%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (7.77%) SaaS
4 7 (6.80%) AWS
5 5 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.88%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.88%) Serverless
7 3 (2.91%) GCP
7 3 (2.91%) GitHub
8 2 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.97%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.97%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.97%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.97%) Figma
9 1 (0.97%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (0.97%) mabl
9 1 (0.97%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.94%) HTTP
2 1 (0.97%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (1.94%) Power BI
2 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.97%) Big Data
2 1 (0.97%) DB2
2 1 (0.97%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.97%) Mixpanel
2 1 (0.97%) MySQL
2 1 (0.97%) Redis
2 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (19.42%) Selenium
2 13 (12.62%) Postman
3 11 (10.68%) Cypress.io
4 10 (9.71%) Jenkins
5 8 (7.77%) Git
6 7 (6.80%) Appium
7 6 (5.83%) JIRA
7 6 (5.83%) SpecFlow
8 5 (4.85%) IBM UrbanCode
8 5 (4.85%) SoapUI
9 3 (2.91%) JMeter
9 3 (2.91%) XCUITest
10 2 (1.94%) JUnit
10 2 (1.94%) Xcode
11 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.97%) Locust
11 1 (0.97%) Maven
11 1 (0.97%) TestNG
11 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.97%) WebDriver
General
1 36 (34.95%) Social Skills
2 32 (31.07%) Finance
3 18 (17.48%) Banking
4 9 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.85%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.88%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.88%) Marketing
8 3 (2.91%) Billing
8 3 (2.91%) Private Banking
8 3 (2.91%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.94%) Electronics
9 2 (1.94%) Front Office
9 2 (1.94%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.94%) Military
9 2 (1.94%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (23.30%) Lead
2 15 (14.56%) Senior
3 13 (12.62%) Analyst
4 11 (10.68%) Tester
5 10 (9.71%) QA Engineer
5 10 (9.71%) Test Analyst
5 10 (9.71%) Test Manager
6 8 (7.77%) Senior Tester
6 8 (7.77%) Test Leader
7 7 (6.80%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) QA Leader
8 6 (5.83%) Quality Engineer
8 6 (5.83%) Test Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Software Tester
10 4 (3.88%) DevOps Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) IT Auditor
10 4 (3.88%) QA Specialist
10 4 (3.88%) Senior Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.71%) Playwright
2 9 (8.74%) .NET
2 9 (8.74%) JSON
3 6 (5.83%) REST
3 6 (5.83%) Web Services
4 5 (4.85%) React
4 5 (4.85%) React Native
4 5 (4.85%) Swagger
4 5 (4.85%) XML
5 4 (3.88%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.91%) RESTful
6 3 (2.91%) SOAP
7 2 (1.94%) Jest
7 2 (1.94%) Kafka
7 2 (1.94%) PySpark
7 2 (1.94%) pytest
7 2 (1.94%) YAML
8 1 (0.97%) MediatR
8 1 (0.97%) Next.js
8 1 (0.97%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.71%) Mobile App
2 8 (7.77%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.85%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.91%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.91%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.97%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.97%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.97%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.97%) NHS
7 1 (0.97%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.97%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) State Machine
7 1 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.77%) Apple iOS
2 6 (5.83%) Windows
3 2 (1.94%) Linux
4 1 (0.97%) Android
4 1 (0.97%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (50.49%) Test Automation
2 45 (43.69%) Agile
3 27 (26.21%) Software Testing
4 25 (24.27%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (21.36%) DevOps
6 21 (20.39%) CI/CD
6 21 (20.39%) Regression Testing
7 20 (19.42%) User Acceptance Testing
8 16 (15.53%) API Testing
9 15 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (13.59%) Software Engineering
11 13 (12.62%) Manual Testing
11 13 (12.62%) SDLC
12 11 (10.68%) Performance Testing
12 11 (10.68%) Test Scripting
13 10 (9.71%) End-to-End Testing
13 10 (9.71%) Mentoring
13 10 (9.71%) Scrum
13 10 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (8.74%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 18 (17.48%) C#
2 14 (13.59%) Python
3 13 (12.62%) JavaScript
3 13 (12.62%) SQL
4 9 (8.74%) TypeScript
5 8 (7.77%) Java
6 3 (2.91%) C++
6 3 (2.91%) Swift
7 1 (0.97%) Bash
7 1 (0.97%) JCL
7 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (5.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.88%) DBS Check
2 4 (3.88%) ISTQB
2 4 (3.88%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.91%) Degree
4 2 (1.94%) ISEB
5 1 (0.97%) ACCA
5 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.97%) CISA
5 1 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (43.69%) QA
2 4 (3.88%) NIST
3 3 (2.91%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.94%) COBIT
4 2 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.94%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.97%) Basel III
5 1 (0.97%) GDPR
5 1 (0.97%) IFRS
5 1 (0.97%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.97%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 7 (6.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.97%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.97%) Firmware
2 1 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.94%) Terraform
3 1 (0.97%) CA Service Virtualization
3 1 (0.97%) Grafana
3 1 (0.97%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (8.74%) SAP
2 8 (7.77%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.91%) Google
3 3 (2.91%) IBM
4 2 (1.94%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.94%) VMware
5 1 (0.97%) Adobe
5 1 (0.97%) Cognos
5 1 (0.97%) Concur
5 1 (0.97%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle
5 1 (0.97%) Solace
5 1 (0.97%) Splunk