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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 431 326
Rank change year-on-year +63 -105 -50
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 98 167 393
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.53% 0.49% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.54% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 82 148 297
10th Percentile £41,713 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,438 £43,625 £48,782
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,600 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.66% -16.29% +12.90%
75th Percentile £79,375 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,376 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -12.31% +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 17,583 30,859 38,849
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 94.20% 91.22% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 9,820 23,373 27,016
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £101,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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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 18 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 3 (3.06%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.02%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.02%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.02%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (20.41%) Azure
2 12 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (7.14%) SaaS
4 6 (6.12%) AWS
5 4 (4.08%) Serverless
6 3 (3.06%) GitHub
6 3 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.04%) GCP
7 2 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.04%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.02%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.02%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.02%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.02%) mabl
8 1 (1.02%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.04%) HTTP
2 1 (1.02%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.04%) Power BI
2 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.02%) Big Data
2 1 (1.02%) DB2
2 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.02%) Mixpanel
2 1 (1.02%) MySQL
2 1 (1.02%) Redis
2 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (21.43%) Selenium
2 13 (13.27%) Postman
3 12 (12.24%) Cypress.io
4 9 (9.18%) Jenkins
5 8 (8.16%) Appium
6 6 (6.12%) Git
6 6 (6.12%) JIRA
6 6 (6.12%) SpecFlow
7 5 (5.10%) IBM UrbanCode
7 5 (5.10%) SoapUI
8 3 (3.06%) JMeter
8 3 (3.06%) XCUITest
9 2 (2.04%) WebDriver
9 2 (2.04%) Xcode
10 1 (1.02%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.02%) ESLint
10 1 (1.02%) JUnit
10 1 (1.02%) Locust
10 1 (1.02%) Storybook
10 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 29 (29.59%) Finance
3 16 (16.33%) Banking
4 11 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.10%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.08%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.06%) Billing
8 3 (3.06%) Health Technology
8 3 (3.06%) Marketing
8 3 (3.06%) Private Banking
8 3 (3.06%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.04%) Front Office
9 2 (2.04%) Law
9 2 (2.04%) Military
10 1 (1.02%) Advertising
10 1 (1.02%) Back Office
10 1 (1.02%) Games
10 1 (1.02%) Legal
10 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (22.45%) Lead
2 13 (13.27%) Senior
3 12 (12.24%) Analyst
4 10 (10.20%) QA Engineer
4 10 (10.20%) Test Analyst
4 10 (10.20%) Test Manager
5 9 (9.18%) Tester
6 8 (8.16%) Test Leader
7 7 (7.14%) Test Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) QA Leader
8 6 (6.12%) Senior Tester
9 5 (5.10%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) QA Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Quality Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Test Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Internal Auditor
10 4 (4.08%) IT Auditor
10 4 (4.08%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.22%) Playwright
2 9 (9.18%) JSON
3 7 (7.14%) .NET
4 6 (6.12%) REST
4 6 (6.12%) Web Services
5 5 (5.10%) React
5 5 (5.10%) React Native
5 5 (5.10%) Swagger
5 5 (5.10%) XML
6 4 (4.08%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.06%) PySpark
7 3 (3.06%) RESTful
7 3 (3.06%) SOAP
8 2 (2.04%) Jest
8 2 (2.04%) Kafka
8 2 (2.04%) YAML
9 1 (1.02%) MassTransit
9 1 (1.02%) Material-UI
9 1 (1.02%) MediatR
9 1 (1.02%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.22%) Mobile App
2 6 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.10%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.06%) Client/Server
4 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.02%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.02%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.02%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.02%) NHS
6 1 (1.02%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.02%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) State Machine
6 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.16%) Apple iOS
2 6 (6.12%) Windows
3 2 (2.04%) Linux
4 1 (1.02%) Android
4 1 (1.02%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (52.04%) Test Automation
2 42 (42.86%) Agile
3 27 (27.55%) Software Testing
4 25 (25.51%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (20.41%) CI/CD
5 20 (20.41%) Regression Testing
6 19 (19.39%) DevOps
7 18 (18.37%) User Acceptance Testing
8 16 (16.33%) API Testing
9 15 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (13.27%) Manual Testing
10 13 (13.27%) SDLC
11 12 (12.24%) Software Engineering
12 11 (11.22%) Performance Testing
12 11 (11.22%) Test Scripting
13 10 (10.20%) Mentoring
13 10 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (9.18%) Scrum
14 9 (9.18%) Test Planning
15 8 (8.16%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.37%) C#
2 14 (14.29%) SQL
3 13 (13.27%) Python
4 11 (11.22%) JavaScript
5 10 (10.20%) TypeScript
6 7 (7.14%) Java
7 3 (3.06%) Swift
8 2 (2.04%) C++
9 1 (1.02%) Bash
9 1 (1.02%) JCL
9 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.10%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.08%) DBS Check
3 4 (4.08%) Degree
3 4 (4.08%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.04%) ISEB
5 1 (1.02%) ACCA
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.02%) CISA
5 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (45.92%) QA
2 4 (4.08%) NIST
3 3 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.06%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.04%) COBIT
4 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.04%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.02%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 6 (6.12%) Docker
2 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.02%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.02%) Firmware
2 1 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.02%) CA Service Virtualization
2 1 (1.02%) Grafana
2 1 (1.02%) Terraform
2 1 (1.02%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (8.16%) SAP
2 6 (6.12%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.06%) Google
3 3 (3.06%) IBM
4 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.04%) VMware
5 1 (1.02%) Cognos
5 1 (1.02%) Concur
5 1 (1.02%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.02%) Oracle
5 1 (1.02%) Solace
5 1 (1.02%) Splunk