Test Strategy Jobs in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 499 378 319
Rank change year-on-year -121 -59 +38
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 286 470 805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.81% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.85% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 222 180 432
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £35,800
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £53,738
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.16% +13.13%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £82,500
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,033 55,511 69,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.47% 95.56% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 42,006 28,806 41,464
10th Percentile £27,336 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Test Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Test Strategy in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in the UK excluding London

Test Strategy
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the UK excluding London 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
South East -43 71 £47,500 -5.47% 20
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% 19
South West -37 39 £55,000 -6.14% 12
North West -18 28 £51,674 -6.05% 13
Scotland -83 23 £45,000 +2.27% 9
East of England -31 21 £60,000 +6.67% 14
Yorkshire -4 19 £41,000 -8.89% 4
Wales 0 13 £52,500 +50.00% 2
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 the UK excluding London 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 19 (6.64%) Confluence
2 1 (0.35%) IIS
2 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.70%) Simulink
5 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 37 (12.94%) AWS
1 37 (12.94%) Azure
2 30 (10.49%) SaaS
3 12 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (4.20%) Google Analytics
3 12 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (2.80%) GCP
5 7 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (1.40%) BrowserStack
7 3 (1.05%) Google Ads
7 3 (1.05%) Sauce Labs
8 2 (0.70%) GitHub
8 2 (0.70%) PaaS
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.35%) Firebase
9 1 (0.35%) IaaS
9 1 (0.35%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.10%) Ethernet
1 6 (2.10%) RS-232
2 4 (1.40%) Bluetooth
2 4 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (1.40%) ZigBee
3 2 (0.70%) Firewall
3 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.35%) DHCP
4 1 (0.35%) DNS
4 1 (0.35%) HTTP
4 1 (0.35%) Multicast
4 1 (0.35%) SMS
4 1 (0.35%) VLAN
4 1 (0.35%) VPN
4 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.15%) Looker
2 4 (1.40%) Data Lake
2 4 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.40%) MySQL
3 3 (1.05%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.70%) Data Mining
4 2 (0.70%) Redis
4 2 (0.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.35%) Power BI
5 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 59 (20.63%) Selenium
2 48 (16.78%) JIRA
3 28 (9.79%) Postman
4 26 (9.09%) Git
5 17 (5.94%) Cucumber
6 15 (5.24%) Visual Studio
7 12 (4.20%) Cypress.io
8 11 (3.85%) Subversion
9 9 (3.15%) JMeter
10 8 (2.80%) Appium
10 8 (2.80%) SoapUI
10 8 (2.80%) TeamCity
11 6 (2.10%) JUnit
12 5 (1.75%) LoadRunner
12 5 (1.75%) REST Assured
13 4 (1.40%) Jenkins
13 4 (1.40%) SpecFlow
13 4 (1.40%) TestNG
13 4 (1.40%) TestRail
13 4 (1.40%) Zephyr
General
1 115 (40.21%) Social Skills
2 80 (27.97%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (14.69%) Finance
5 35 (12.24%) Organisational Skills
6 30 (10.49%) Electronics
7 19 (6.64%) Banking
8 18 (6.29%) Manufacturing
9 16 (5.59%) Law
9 16 (5.59%) Legal
10 15 (5.24%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (4.20%) Marketing
12 11 (3.85%) Public Sector
13 9 (3.15%) Investment Banking
13 9 (3.15%) Retail
14 8 (2.80%) Aerospace
14 8 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.40%) Automotive
15 4 (1.40%) Aviation
16 2 (0.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 45 (15.73%) Lead
2 34 (11.89%) Test Manager
3 32 (11.19%) Test Engineer
4 30 (10.49%) Senior
4 30 (10.49%) Test Leader
5 27 (9.44%) Tester
6 25 (8.74%) Analyst
7 17 (5.94%) QA Engineer
8 15 (5.24%) QA Leader
8 15 (5.24%) Test Analyst
9 12 (4.20%) Software Engineer
10 11 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
10 11 (3.85%) Business Analyst
11 10 (3.50%) QA Analyst
11 10 (3.50%) QA Test Analyst
12 9 (3.15%) Automation Test Lead
12 9 (3.15%) Developer
12 9 (3.15%) IT Manager
12 9 (3.15%) Systems Engineer
12 9 (3.15%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.39%) .NET
2 15 (5.24%) .NET Framework
3 11 (3.85%) Qt
4 10 (3.50%) Web Services
5 9 (3.15%) Gherkin
6 8 (2.80%) REST
7 6 (2.10%) CSS
7 6 (2.10%) HTML
7 6 (2.10%) SOAP
7 6 (2.10%) Spring
7 6 (2.10%) Spring Boot
8 5 (1.75%) Playwright
9 4 (1.40%) JSON
9 4 (1.40%) Swagger
10 3 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (1.05%) WPF
10 3 (1.05%) XML
11 2 (0.70%) WebdriverIO
12 1 (0.35%) Vue
12 1 (0.35%) Vuex
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.59%) Self-Motivation
2 33 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.59%) IoT
3 16 (5.59%) Robotics
4 15 (5.24%) Mobile App
5 12 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.85%) Analogue Electronics
7 8 (2.80%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.80%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.45%) Credit Derivative
8 7 (2.45%) Derivative
8 7 (2.45%) Fixed Income
8 7 (2.45%) FMCG
8 7 (2.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (2.45%) Hedge funds
8 7 (2.45%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 7 (2.45%) Reference Data
9 6 (2.10%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.49%) Windows
2 22 (7.69%) Linux
3 11 (3.85%) Ubuntu
3 11 (3.85%) Windows 10
4 6 (2.10%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (55.24%) Test Automation
2 110 (38.46%) Agile
3 108 (37.76%) Software Testing
4 77 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
5 70 (24.48%) Test Management
6 57 (19.93%) Test Scripting
7 53 (18.53%) User Acceptance Testing
8 46 (16.08%) Computer Science
9 44 (15.38%) Mentoring
10 43 (15.03%) Functional Testing
11 42 (14.69%) Scrum
12 41 (14.34%) DevOps
13 40 (13.99%) CI/CD
14 37 (12.94%) Regression Testing
14 37 (12.94%) SDLC
15 35 (12.24%) Project Management
15 35 (12.24%) Software Engineering
16 32 (11.19%) Change Management
17 31 (10.84%) Manual Testing
18 30 (10.49%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (9.09%) SQL
2 22 (7.69%) Java
3 21 (7.34%) C#
4 20 (6.99%) C
4 20 (6.99%) JavaScript
5 16 (5.59%) Python
6 14 (4.90%) C++
7 4 (1.40%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.05%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.70%) Bash
9 2 (0.70%) VB
9 2 (0.70%) VBA
10 1 (0.35%) Perl
10 1 (0.35%) PHP
10 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.35%) RPG
Qualifications
1 81 (28.32%) Degree
2 44 (15.38%) ISTQB
3 31 (10.84%) Security Cleared
4 27 (9.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (7.69%) SC Cleared
6 15 (5.24%) ISEB
7 8 (2.80%) OSCP
8 6 (2.10%) CSPO
8 6 (2.10%) IIBA
9 5 (1.75%) CAPM
9 5 (1.75%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.75%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.75%) PMP
10 4 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (1.05%) Analytics IQ
12 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.35%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.35%) JNCIA
13 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (32.52%) QA
2 8 (2.80%) GRC
3 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (2.45%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.05%) Docker
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.75%) HP ALM
2 2 (0.70%) Grafana
3 1 (0.35%) Ansible
3 1 (0.35%) Iperf
3 1 (0.35%) Kibana
3 1 (0.35%) Nmap
3 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.35%) Terraform
3 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 38 (13.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.90%) Google
3 11 (3.85%) Oracle
3 11 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 7 (2.45%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.75%) HP
6 3 (1.05%) Kenshoo
6 3 (1.05%) Micro Focus
7 2 (0.70%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.70%) Medallia
7 2 (0.70%) Optimizely
7 2 (0.70%) Splunk
8 1 (0.35%) Denodo
8 1 (0.35%) IBM
8 1 (0.35%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.35%) SAP
8 1 (0.35%) Talend
8 1 (0.35%) Thales
8 1 (0.35%) VMware
8 1 (0.35%) Workday