Test Strategy Jobs in the North of England

Test Strategy
England > North of England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 278 260
Rank change year-on-year -63 -18 +10
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 50 151 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.26% 0.94% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.97% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 48 62 119
10th Percentile £24,750 £37,921 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,837 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.57% +22.22% -1.10%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £85,900 £65,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -12.55% +5.20% +6.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,358 15,551 17,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 81.16% 96.76% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11,581 7,807 10,650
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,600 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Test Strategy in the North of England

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy in the North of England

Test Strategy
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
North West -33 28 £51,674 -6.05% 11
Yorkshire -18 18 £41,000 -8.89% 2
North East -11 4 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Test Strategy
England

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.00%) Google Analytics
2 8 (16.00%) Azure
3 7 (14.00%) AWS
4 6 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.00%) Google Ads
5 3 (6.00%) SaaS
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.00%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.00%) Firebase
6 1 (2.00%) GitHub
6 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) Firewall
1 1 (2.00%) Multicast
1 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) Looker
2 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.00%) MySQL
2 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Postman
2 4 (8.00%) Git
2 4 (8.00%) LoadRunner
2 4 (8.00%) Selenium
2 4 (8.00%) Visual Studio
3 3 (6.00%) Appium
3 3 (6.00%) JMeter
4 2 (4.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.00%) IntelliJ
4 2 (4.00%) JIRA
4 2 (4.00%) JUnit
4 2 (4.00%) REST Assured
4 2 (4.00%) SoapUI
4 2 (4.00%) SOAtest
4 2 (4.00%) TestNG
4 2 (4.00%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.00%) GitLab
5 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (42.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (24.00%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.00%) Banking
5 2 (4.00%) Marketing
6 1 (2.00%) Finance
6 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.00%) Police
6 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.00%) Retail
6 1 (2.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 9 (18.00%) Lead
2 8 (16.00%) IT Manager
3 7 (14.00%) Test Leader
4 4 (8.00%) Developer
4 4 (8.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 4 (8.00%) Test Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Performance Test Leader
5 3 (6.00%) PPC Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Tester
6 2 (4.00%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (4.00%) Automation Tester
6 2 (4.00%) Coordinator
6 2 (4.00%) QA Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Software Test Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Test Coordinator
6 2 (4.00%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) Author
7 1 (2.00%) Head of QA
7 1 (2.00%) Software Tester
7 1 (2.00%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) .NET
2 5 (10.00%) Web Services
3 4 (8.00%) .NET Framework
3 4 (8.00%) CSS
3 4 (8.00%) HTML
4 2 (4.00%) Playwright
4 2 (4.00%) REST
5 1 (2.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (12.00%) Algorithms
3 4 (8.00%) Operational Technology
3 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.00%) SCADA
4 2 (4.00%) FMCG
5 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Windows
2 6 (12.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.00%) Android
3 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (26.00%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (26.00%) Test Management
3 12 (24.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (22.00%) Agile
4 11 (22.00%) Analytics
4 11 (22.00%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 9 (18.00%) Test Scripting
7 8 (16.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (14.00%) A/B Testing
8 7 (14.00%) Actionable Insight
8 7 (14.00%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
8 7 (14.00%) Decision-Making
8 7 (14.00%) Functional Testing
8 7 (14.00%) Project Management
8 7 (14.00%) SEO
8 7 (14.00%) Software Testing
9 6 (12.00%) Budgeting
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (14.00%) C#
3 6 (12.00%) Java
4 4 (8.00%) SQL
5 2 (4.00%) Python
5 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (18.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.00%) Analytics IQ
3 1 (2.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.00%) ISEB
3 1 (2.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Google
2 3 (6.00%) Kenshoo
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.00%) SAP
3 1 (2.00%) Workday