Hybrid/Remote Test Strategy Job Trends

Test Strategy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 321 383
Rank change year-on-year +41 +62 -75
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 193 97 109
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.81% 0.60% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.64% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 73 85 75
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,400 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,468 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,625
90th Percentile £78,650 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -8.64%

All Process & 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 19,614 15,094 20,463
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.92% 93.04% 87.57%
Number of salaries quoted 14,115 8,698 12,932
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,913 £35,252
25th Percentile £44,784 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Strategy and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Test Strategy job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Test Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Test Strategy

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Test Strategy over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Test Strategy salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 5 (2.59%) Apache
1 5 (2.59%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.07%) CMS
2 4 (2.07%) Confluence
3 3 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.55%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Simulink
2 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.04%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 61 (31.61%) SaaS
2 48 (24.87%) Azure
3 41 (21.24%) AWS
4 30 (15.54%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (5.70%) GCP
6 10 (5.18%) GitHub
7 8 (4.15%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.63%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (3.63%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.11%) Cloudflare
9 6 (3.11%) Vercel
10 5 (2.59%) BrowserStack
10 5 (2.59%) Datadog
11 4 (2.07%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.55%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (1.55%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.63%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.59%) Broadband
3 4 (2.07%) CHAP
3 4 (2.07%) HTTP
4 3 (1.55%) Network Security
5 1 (0.52%) 3G
5 1 (0.52%) 4G
5 1 (0.52%) 5G
5 1 (0.52%) Diameter Protocol
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.59%) Data Lake
1 5 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.07%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (1.55%) Big Data
3 3 (1.55%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.04%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.04%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.04%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (11.40%) Selenium
2 21 (10.88%) JIRA
3 17 (8.81%) Git
4 13 (6.74%) Cypress.io
5 12 (6.22%) GitLab
6 10 (5.18%) Cucumber
6 10 (5.18%) Jenkins
7 9 (4.66%) Postman
8 8 (4.15%) Gatling
9 6 (3.11%) JMeter
9 6 (3.11%) JUnit
10 5 (2.59%) Appium
11 4 (2.07%) LabVIEW
11 4 (2.07%) SpecFlow
12 3 (1.55%) REST Assured
12 3 (1.55%) XCUITest
13 2 (1.04%) Bitbucket
13 2 (1.04%) Locust
13 2 (1.04%) MSTest
13 2 (1.04%) WebDriver
General
1 99 (51.30%) Social Skills
2 57 (29.53%) Legal
3 44 (22.80%) Finance
4 31 (16.06%) Law
5 26 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (13.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (7.77%) Public Sector
7 13 (6.74%) Electronics
8 11 (5.70%) Telecoms
9 10 (5.18%) Aerospace
10 8 (4.15%) Banking
11 7 (3.63%) Retail
12 6 (3.11%) Legal Technology
13 5 (2.59%) Marketing
14 4 (2.07%) Financial Institution
14 4 (2.07%) Italian Language
14 4 (2.07%) Japanese Language
14 4 (2.07%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.55%) Advertising
15 3 (1.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 88 (45.60%) Senior
2 52 (26.94%) Testing Manager
3 49 (25.39%) Senior Manager
4 40 (20.73%) Lead
5 31 (16.06%) Test Engineer
6 18 (9.33%) QA Engineer
6 18 (9.33%) Tester
7 14 (7.25%) Software Engineer
8 13 (6.74%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (6.22%) Lead Test Engineer
9 12 (6.22%) QA Automation Engineer
10 9 (4.66%) Test Leader
11 8 (4.15%) Lead Software Engineer
11 8 (4.15%) Quality Engineer
11 8 (4.15%) Senior QA Engineer
11 8 (4.15%) Senior Quality Engineer
12 7 (3.63%) QA Tester
12 7 (3.63%) Software Tester
12 7 (3.63%) Test Automation Engineer
13 6 (3.11%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.06%) Playwright
2 23 (11.92%) React
3 12 (6.22%) .NET
4 10 (5.18%) Terraform
5 8 (4.15%) CSS
6 7 (3.63%) Gherkin
6 7 (3.63%) HTML
6 7 (3.63%) Web Services
6 7 (3.63%) XML
7 4 (2.07%) Django
7 4 (2.07%) GraphQL
7 4 (2.07%) Jest
7 4 (2.07%) Model Context Protocol
7 4 (2.07%) Node.js
7 4 (2.07%) REST
8 3 (1.55%) ADO
8 3 (1.55%) JSON
8 3 (1.55%) PySpark
8 3 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (1.55%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 52 (26.94%) Virtual Team
2 22 (11.40%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.70%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.66%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.66%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.15%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.63%) Client/Server
6 7 (3.63%) e-Learning
6 7 (3.63%) SCADA
7 6 (3.11%) Culture of Ownership
7 6 (3.11%) Podcast
7 6 (3.11%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.59%) Blog
8 5 (2.59%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.07%) Online Gambling
9 4 (2.07%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.55%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.66%) Android
1 9 (4.66%) Apple iOS
1 9 (4.66%) Linux
2 3 (1.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (70.98%) Test Automation
2 99 (51.30%) Continuous Improvement
3 96 (49.74%) DevOps
4 83 (43.01%) Mentoring
5 81 (41.97%) Software Testing
6 80 (41.45%) Software Engineering
7 79 (40.93%) Agile
8 70 (36.27%) CI/CD
9 64 (33.16%) Manual Testing
10 62 (32.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 57 (29.53%) Performance Management
12 56 (29.02%) Project Delivery
13 50 (25.91%) Data Management
13 50 (25.91%) Enterprise Architecture
14 49 (25.39%) Budget Management
14 49 (25.39%) Change Advisory Board
14 49 (25.39%) Programme Management
14 49 (25.39%) Strategic Planning
14 49 (25.39%) Virtual Team Management
15 37 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 79 (40.93%) JavaScript
1 79 (40.93%) Python
2 71 (36.79%) TypeScript
3 66 (34.20%) C#
4 52 (26.94%) PowerShell
5 28 (14.51%) Java
6 15 (7.77%) SQL
7 6 (3.11%) Bash
7 6 (3.11%) C++
8 4 (2.07%) C
8 4 (2.07%) Go
9 3 (1.55%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.55%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.55%) Perl
9 3 (1.55%) PHP
9 3 (1.55%) Ruby
9 3 (1.55%) Rust
9 3 (1.55%) Swift
10 2 (1.04%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.04%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (13.99%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.44%) Degree
3 22 (11.40%) SC Cleared
4 17 (8.81%) ISTQB
5 8 (4.15%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.07%) CGEIT
7 4 (2.07%) CISA
7 4 (2.07%) CISM
7 4 (2.07%) CISSP
7 4 (2.07%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.07%) FFIEC
7 4 (2.07%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (2.07%) SANS
8 3 (1.55%) GPEN
8 3 (1.55%) GXPN
8 3 (1.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 3 (1.55%) OSCE
8 3 (1.55%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (58.55%) QA
2 32 (16.58%) Accessibility
3 10 (5.18%) WCAG
4 6 (3.11%) GRC
5 5 (2.59%) GDPR
6 4 (2.07%) COBIT
6 4 (2.07%) NIST
7 3 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.04%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.52%) GxP
9 1 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 20 (10.36%) Docker
2 4 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (6.22%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.59%) Grafana
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.52%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (7.77%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.63%) SAP
3 3 (1.55%) Workday
4 2 (1.04%) Adaptive Insights
4 2 (1.04%) Databricks
4 2 (1.04%) Keysight
4 2 (1.04%) Oracle
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe
5 1 (0.52%) Broadcom
5 1 (0.52%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.52%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.52%) Ericsson
5 1 (0.52%) Google
5 1 (0.52%) Murex
5 1 (0.52%) Nokia
5 1 (0.52%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.52%) Splunk