Test Strategy Jobs in England

Test Strategy
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with 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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 354 275
Rank change year-on-year -106 -79 +115
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 424 793 2,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.92% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.96% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 328 456 869
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £66,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +5.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £78,750 £90,313 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,781 82,738 134,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.16% 95.57% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 54,521 49,312 73,714
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,329 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Test Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in England

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in England.

Salary trend for Test Strategy in England

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in England

Test Strategy
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
London -17 169 £83,750 +4.69% 45
South East -43 71 £47,500 -5.47% 19
Midlands +31 68 £50,000 -8.31% 13
West Midlands +40 57 £50,000 -13.04% 10
North of England -53 51 £51,674 -6.05% 20
South West -37 39 £55,000 -6.14% 12
North West -18 28 £51,674 -6.05% 14
East of England -31 21 £60,000 +6.67% 14
Yorkshire -4 19 £41,000 -8.89% 4
East Midlands -9 11 £49,329 +9.62% 3
North East -6 4 £55,000 +4.76% 2
Test Strategy
UK

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 25 (5.90%) Confluence
2 3 (0.71%) CMS
2 3 (0.71%) WordPress
3 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.24%) Apache
4 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.47%) Simulink
5 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.24%) Sketch
5 1 (0.24%) UXPin
5 1 (0.24%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 5 (1.18%) Distributed Ledger
1 5 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.71%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (13.92%) AWS
1 59 (13.92%) SaaS
2 58 (13.68%) Azure
3 17 (4.01%) GCP
3 17 (4.01%) Google Analytics
4 16 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (2.12%) GitHub
7 8 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (1.42%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.18%) BrowserStack
10 4 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.94%) Datadog
11 3 (0.71%) Google Ads
11 3 (0.71%) PaaS
12 2 (0.47%) Sauce Labs
12 2 (0.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.42%) Ethernet
1 6 (1.42%) RS-232
2 4 (0.94%) Bluetooth
2 4 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (0.94%) ZigBee
3 2 (0.47%) Firewall
3 2 (0.47%) HTTP
3 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.24%) DHCP
4 1 (0.24%) DNS
4 1 (0.24%) Multicast
4 1 (0.24%) SMS
4 1 (0.24%) VLAN
4 1 (0.24%) VPN
4 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.36%) Looker
2 6 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (1.42%) Power BI
3 5 (1.18%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.18%) SAP BW
3 5 (1.18%) SAP HANA
3 5 (1.18%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.94%) Big Data
4 4 (0.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.94%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.94%) MySQL
4 4 (0.94%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.71%) Redis
5 3 (0.71%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.47%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.47%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.24%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 86 (20.28%) Selenium
2 68 (16.04%) JIRA
3 56 (13.21%) Cucumber
4 54 (12.74%) Postman
5 37 (8.73%) Jenkins
6 27 (6.37%) Cypress.io
7 26 (6.13%) Git
8 24 (5.66%) JUnit
9 16 (3.77%) JMeter
10 15 (3.54%) Visual Studio
11 12 (2.83%) Appium
12 11 (2.59%) SoapUI
12 11 (2.59%) Subversion
12 11 (2.59%) WebDriver
13 8 (1.89%) TeamCity
14 7 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (1.65%) LoadRunner
15 6 (1.42%) TestRail
16 5 (1.18%) REST Assured
16 5 (1.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 134 (31.60%) Social Skills
2 80 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (17.45%) Finance
4 43 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (8.25%) Organisational Skills
6 32 (7.55%) Electronics
7 18 (4.25%) Manufacturing
8 17 (4.01%) Banking
9 14 (3.30%) Public Sector
10 13 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (3.07%) Law
11 12 (2.83%) Legal
11 12 (2.83%) Retail
12 10 (2.36%) Marketing
13 8 (1.89%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.65%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.94%) Automotive
16 4 (0.94%) International Banking
17 3 (0.71%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 96 (22.64%) Lead
2 53 (12.50%) Senior
3 49 (11.56%) Test Manager
4 43 (10.14%) Analyst
5 37 (8.73%) Test Engineer
6 30 (7.08%) Test Leader
6 30 (7.08%) Tester
7 24 (5.66%) QA Engineer
7 24 (5.66%) Test Analyst
8 19 (4.48%) QA Leader
9 14 (3.30%) Test Automation Engineer
10 13 (3.07%) Developer
10 13 (3.07%) Penetration Tester
10 13 (3.07%) Software Engineer
11 12 (2.83%) Engineering Manager
12 11 (2.59%) Applications Engineer
12 11 (2.59%) QA Analyst
13 10 (2.36%) Architect
13 10 (2.36%) QA Manager
13 10 (2.36%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (9.67%) REST
2 26 (6.13%) .NET
3 16 (3.77%) JSON
3 16 (3.77%) React
4 15 (3.54%) .NET Framework
5 14 (3.30%) Gherkin
6 12 (2.83%) Web Services
7 11 (2.59%) Qt
8 10 (2.36%) WebdriverIO
9 9 (2.12%) Playwright
10 7 (1.65%) Apache Thrift
10 7 (1.65%) HTML
10 7 (1.65%) RESTful
11 6 (1.42%) CSS
11 6 (1.42%) Spring
11 6 (1.42%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.42%) Swagger
12 5 (1.18%) Smart Contracts
13 4 (0.94%) SOAP
14 3 (0.71%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.43%) Product Ownership
2 37 (8.73%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (4.25%) Mobile App
4 17 (4.01%) IoT
5 16 (3.77%) Robotics
6 13 (3.07%) Analogue Electronics
6 13 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.59%) Algorithms
8 10 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.89%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.65%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.42%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.18%) BBC
12 5 (1.18%) Blockchain
12 5 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.18%) SCADA
13 4 (0.94%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.08%) Windows
2 25 (5.90%) Linux
3 11 (2.59%) Ubuntu
3 11 (2.59%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.42%) Android
4 6 (1.42%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (51.89%) Test Automation
2 182 (42.92%) Agile
3 134 (31.60%) Software Testing
4 84 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (19.10%) CI/CD
6 80 (18.87%) Test Management
7 76 (17.92%) Mentoring
8 70 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 68 (16.04%) User Acceptance Testing
10 65 (15.33%) API Testing
11 60 (14.15%) SDET
11 60 (14.15%) Test Scripting
12 59 (13.92%) Project Management
13 58 (13.68%) Functional Testing
14 52 (12.26%) Computer Science
14 52 (12.26%) DevOps
15 50 (11.79%) Regression Testing
16 49 (11.56%) Software Engineering
17 48 (11.32%) BDD
17 48 (11.32%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 78 (18.40%) Java
2 37 (8.73%) Python
3 35 (8.25%) SQL
4 32 (7.55%) JavaScript
5 22 (5.19%) C
5 22 (5.19%) C#
6 14 (3.30%) C++
7 10 (2.36%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.18%) Bash
8 5 (1.18%) Scala
9 4 (0.94%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.47%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.47%) VB
11 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.24%) Perl
11 1 (0.24%) RPG
Qualifications
1 91 (21.46%) Degree
2 56 (13.21%) ISTQB
3 40 (9.43%) Security Cleared
4 29 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (6.84%) ISEB
5 27 (6.37%) SC Cleared
6 11 (2.59%) OSCP
7 9 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.65%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.42%) CSPO
9 6 (1.42%) IIBA
9 6 (1.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 6 (1.42%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.18%) CAPM
10 5 (1.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 5 (1.18%) PMP
11 4 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.94%) ISEB Practitioner
12 3 (0.71%) CEH
12 3 (0.71%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (40.09%) QA
2 11 (2.59%) GRC
3 9 (2.12%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.65%) NIST
6 3 (0.71%) COBIT
6 3 (0.71%) GDPR
6 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.47%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (1.65%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.18%) Docker
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.18%) HP ALM
2 4 (0.94%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.71%) Terraform
4 2 (0.47%) Ansible
4 2 (0.47%) Grafana
5 1 (0.24%) Iperf
5 1 (0.24%) Kibana
5 1 (0.24%) Nmap
5 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (9.20%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.37%) Google
3 12 (2.83%) Salesforce
4 7 (1.65%) SAP
4 7 (1.65%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.18%) HP
5 5 (1.18%) IBM
5 5 (1.18%) UiPath
6 4 (0.94%) Oracle
7 3 (0.71%) Ahrefs
7 3 (0.71%) Databricks
7 3 (0.71%) HubSpot
7 3 (0.71%) Kenshoo
7 3 (0.71%) Micro Focus
7 3 (0.71%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.71%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.47%) iManage
8 2 (0.47%) Intapp
8 2 (0.47%) Medallia
8 2 (0.47%) Talend