Test Strategy Job Trends in Yorkshire

Test Strategy
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 148 151
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +57
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 18 8 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.54% 0.25% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.28% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 13 4 23
10th Percentile - £44,000 £40,450
25th Percentile £35,250 £46,250 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -2.17% +21.05%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,431 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,000 £88,056 £72,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £68,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% -14.06% +33.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,669 2,903 2,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 80.34% 89.74% 91.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,543 1,150 2,210
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,800
25th Percentile £30,250 £41,000 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%
75th Percentile £69,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Test Strategy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Test Strategy

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in Yorkshire

Test Strategy
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 January 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
West Yorkshire -9 13 £65,000 +4.00% 5
East Yorkshire - 4 £36,500 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £49,000 - 7
Test Strategy
England

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) Figma
3 4 (22.22%) Google Ads
4 2 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Looker
2 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (5.56%) Appium
2 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Postman
2 1 (5.56%) REST Assured
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Advertising
3 4 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Developer
1 9 (50.00%) Senior
2 6 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Java Scala Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Java Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Principal Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Principal Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Scala Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Java Scala Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Java Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Scala Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) React
2 5 (27.78%) Flutter
3 2 (11.11%) Spring
3 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.56%) .NET
4 1 (5.56%) Django
4 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
4 1 (5.56%) Flask
4 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.56%) JWT
4 1 (5.56%) MACH
4 1 (5.56%) Node.js
4 1 (5.56%) OAuth
4 1 (5.56%) Playwright
4 1 (5.56%) REST
4 1 (5.56%) SAML
4 1 (5.56%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Robotics
1 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) SDLC
2 6 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 6 (33.33%) Data Design
2 6 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
3 5 (27.78%) Secure Coding
3 5 (27.78%) Technology Roadmap
3 5 (27.78%) Test Automation
4 4 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (22.22%) B2C
4 4 (22.22%) Budget Management
4 4 (22.22%) E-Commerce
4 4 (22.22%) Paid Search
4 4 (22.22%) Planning and Forecasting
4 4 (22.22%) SEO
5 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 3 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Java
2 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 6 (33.33%) Kotlin
2 6 (33.33%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) Scala
3 5 (27.78%) C#
4 4 (22.22%) Go
5 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Google
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 4 (22.22%) TikTok
1 4 (22.22%) YouTube
2 1 (5.56%) Splunk