Test Strategy Jobs with Work from Home Options

Test Strategy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 425 327 264
Rank change year-on-year -98 -63 +108
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 162 377 1,056
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.95% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.99% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 143 282 455
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £40,834
25th Percentile £44,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +12.90% +15.89%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £92,500
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,100 38,207 71,189
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.53% 96.06% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23,476 26,508 41,843
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,621 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.37% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Strategy trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Test Strategy over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

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 10 (6.17%) Confluence
2 3 (1.85%) Apache
2 3 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.62%) IIS
3 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.62%) Sketch
2 1 (0.62%) UXPin
2 1 (0.62%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 30 (18.52%) AWS
2 29 (17.90%) SaaS
3 28 (17.28%) Azure
4 12 (7.41%) GCP
5 8 (4.94%) Google Analytics
6 7 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.70%) GitHub
7 6 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.09%) BrowserStack
8 5 (3.09%) PaaS
9 4 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.85%) dbt
10 3 (1.85%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.85%) Sauce Labs
11 2 (1.23%) AWS Fargate
11 2 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.70%) Ethernet
1 6 (3.70%) RS-232
2 1 (0.62%) Firewall
2 1 (0.62%) Multicast
2 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.94%) Looker
2 4 (2.47%) Redis
3 3 (1.85%) Big Data
3 3 (1.85%) Power BI
4 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 43 (26.54%) Postman
2 38 (23.46%) Cucumber
3 37 (22.84%) Selenium
4 28 (17.28%) Jenkins
5 20 (12.35%) JIRA
6 14 (8.64%) Cypress.io
7 6 (3.70%) Appium
8 5 (3.09%) SpecFlow
9 4 (2.47%) GitLab
9 4 (2.47%) JMeter
9 4 (2.47%) JUnit
9 4 (2.47%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.85%) Deequ
10 3 (1.85%) Git
10 3 (1.85%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.85%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (1.23%) LoadRunner
11 2 (1.23%) NeoLoad
11 2 (1.23%) TestNG
11 2 (1.23%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.99%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (15.43%) Finance
4 17 (10.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (8.64%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.41%) Electronics
6 12 (7.41%) Legal
7 11 (6.79%) Manufacturing
8 9 (5.56%) Banking
9 7 (4.32%) Aerospace
10 5 (3.09%) Retail
11 3 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.23%) Automotive
12 2 (1.23%) Fire and Rescue
12 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.23%) Police
13 1 (0.62%) Advertising
13 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (19.75%) Senior
2 28 (17.28%) Lead
3 21 (12.96%) Tester
4 20 (12.35%) Analyst
5 14 (8.64%) Test Analyst
5 14 (8.64%) Test Engineer
6 13 (8.02%) Penetration Tester
7 9 (5.56%) Engineering Manager
7 9 (5.56%) Test Manager
8 8 (4.94%) QA Engineer
8 8 (4.94%) Test Leader
9 7 (4.32%) Senior Manager
9 7 (4.32%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (3.70%) Product Manager
10 6 (3.70%) QA Leader
10 6 (3.70%) Senior Product Manager
11 5 (3.09%) QA Manager
12 4 (2.47%) Agile Tester
12 4 (2.47%) Architect
12 4 (2.47%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (18.52%) REST
2 12 (7.41%) WebdriverIO
3 8 (4.94%) React
4 6 (3.70%) Spring
4 6 (3.70%) Spring Boot
5 5 (3.09%) .NET
5 5 (3.09%) Gherkin
5 5 (3.09%) Node.js
6 4 (2.47%) Playwright
6 4 (2.47%) Swagger
7 3 (1.85%) Great Expectations
8 2 (1.23%) Kafka
8 2 (1.23%) OpenAPI
9 1 (0.62%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.62%) CSS
9 1 (0.62%) HTML
9 1 (0.62%) JSON
9 1 (0.62%) Laravel
9 1 (0.62%) RESTful
9 1 (0.62%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.26%) Product Ownership
2 13 (8.02%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (4.94%) Analogue Electronics
4 8 (4.94%) Security Posture
5 6 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (3.09%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.47%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.47%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.85%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.85%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.23%) BBC
9 2 (1.23%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.23%) Device Driver
9 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.23%) Infotainment
9 2 (1.23%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.70%) Linux
2 2 (1.23%) Windows
3 1 (0.62%) Android
3 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (38.27%) Test Automation
2 56 (34.57%) Agile
3 53 (32.72%) CI/CD
4 47 (29.01%) API Testing
5 44 (27.16%) BDD
5 44 (27.16%) Software Testing
6 31 (19.14%) Functional Testing
7 29 (17.90%) SDET
7 29 (17.90%) User Acceptance Testing
8 28 (17.28%) Clean Code
9 27 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (16.05%) Project Management
11 25 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (15.43%) Non-Functional Testing
12 24 (14.81%) Regression Testing
13 22 (13.58%) Mentoring
14 19 (11.73%) Software Engineering
15 18 (11.11%) Scrum
15 18 (11.11%) Validation
16 17 (10.49%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 36 (22.22%) Java
2 17 (10.49%) Python
3 16 (9.88%) JavaScript
4 10 (6.17%) SQL
4 10 (6.17%) TypeScript
5 6 (3.70%) C#
6 3 (1.85%) Bash
7 2 (1.23%) C
7 2 (1.23%) C++
7 2 (1.23%) Embedded C
7 2 (1.23%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.62%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.62%) PHP
8 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (14.81%) Degree
2 21 (12.96%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.64%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.79%) ISTQB
4 11 (6.79%) OSCP
5 10 (6.17%) ISEB
6 7 (4.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.70%) CSPO
7 6 (3.70%) IIBA
8 4 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.85%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.85%) CEH
9 3 (1.85%) CISSP
9 3 (1.85%) GIAC
9 3 (1.85%) GPEN
10 2 (1.23%) CREST Certified
10 2 (1.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.62%) HNC
11 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.62%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (50.00%) QA
2 8 (4.94%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.94%) GRC
3 3 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.85%) GDPR
3 3 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.85%) NIST
4 2 (1.23%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (3.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.47%) Grafana
1 4 (2.47%) Kibana
2 2 (1.23%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.62%) Terraform
3 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (10.49%) Google
2 16 (9.88%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.17%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.32%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.47%) Splunk
6 3 (1.85%) Databricks
7 2 (1.23%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.62%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.62%) Telerik
8 1 (0.62%) Thales
8 1 (0.62%) VMware