Non-Functional Testing Jobs

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Non-Functional Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 761 602 605
Rank change year-on-year -159 +3 -60
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 146 373 864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.39% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.41% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 121 226 466
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,543 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,563 £42,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £60,741 £72,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,250 £52,746 £48,250
% change year-on-year -8.52% +9.32% +1.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Non-Functional Testing 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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Non-Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Non-Functional Testing.

Salary trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Non-Functional Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England -160 121 £54,584 -5.07% 31
UK excluding London -104 87 £48,250 -8.52% 17
Work from Home -56 71 £55,000 -4.35% 37
London -18 43 £64,056 -1.45% 17
Midlands -7 33 £49,329 +9.62% 3
West Midlands +6 28 £58,982 +20.99% 3
South East -30 22 £47,500 -13.64% 4
North of England +7 18 £50,000 -4.76% 4
North West 0 12 £45,000 -5.26% 3
Wales +14 9 £45,000 +2.27%
Yorkshire +41 5 £50,000 -14.89% 1
East Midlands -32 5 £49,329 +9.62%
Scotland -69 3 £47,500 -20.83% 1
East of England -11 1 - - 1
North East -18 1 £57,965 +15.93%
South West -46 1 £39,347 -17.33% 3

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (2.74%) OpenZeppelin
2 3 (2.05%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.37%) Confluence
3 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.68%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 7 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.74%) BASE24
2 3 (2.05%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 58 (39.73%) Azure
2 33 (22.60%) AWS
3 24 (16.44%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (13.70%) GitHub
5 16 (10.96%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (10.96%) PaaS
5 16 (10.96%) SaaS
6 10 (6.85%) IaaS
7 3 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.05%) Contentful
7 3 (2.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (1.37%) GCP
8 2 (1.37%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.68%) Firebase
9 1 (0.68%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.74%) IPFS
1 4 (2.74%) Wireless
2 2 (1.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.01%) Relational Database
2 10 (6.85%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.42%) DynamoDB
3 5 (3.42%) Redis
4 4 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.74%) InfluxDB
4 4 (2.74%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.74%) NonStop SQL
4 4 (2.74%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.05%) Big Data
6 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.68%) MySQL
6 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (17.81%) Postman
2 24 (16.44%) Selenium
3 20 (13.70%) JMeter
4 16 (10.96%) WebDriver
5 15 (10.27%) JIRA
6 13 (8.90%) LoadRunner
6 13 (8.90%) SoapUI
7 12 (8.22%) Cucumber
7 12 (8.22%) Visual Studio
8 11 (7.53%) NUnit
9 10 (6.85%) SonarQube
10 9 (6.16%) GitLab
11 5 (3.42%) Cypress.io
11 5 (3.42%) Gatling
11 5 (3.42%) Jenkins
11 5 (3.42%) MSTest
12 4 (2.74%) Appium
12 4 (2.74%) Git
12 4 (2.74%) NeoLoad
12 4 (2.74%) SpecFlow
General
1 25 (17.12%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.44%) Public Sector
3 20 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.33%) Finance
5 15 (10.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (6.85%) Police
7 8 (5.48%) Banking
8 4 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.74%) Law
8 4 (2.74%) Marketing
8 4 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.74%) Retail
8 4 (2.74%) Welsh Language
9 3 (2.05%) Legal
10 2 (1.37%) Electronics
10 2 (1.37%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (1.37%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.37%) Wearables
11 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 36 (24.66%) Senior
2 31 (21.23%) Test Engineer
3 30 (20.55%) Analyst
4 27 (18.49%) Test Analyst
5 23 (15.75%) Tester
6 18 (12.33%) Senior Test Engineer
7 14 (9.59%) Lead
8 10 (6.85%) Senior Analyst
9 9 (6.16%) Developer
10 8 (5.48%) QA Engineer
11 7 (4.79%) Performance Tester
11 7 (4.79%) QA Tester
11 7 (4.79%) Senior Test Analyst
11 7 (4.79%) Test Manager
12 6 (4.11%) Test Automation Engineer
12 6 (4.11%) Test Leader
13 5 (3.42%) Senior Developer
14 4 (2.74%) Administrator
14 4 (2.74%) Systems Administrator
14 4 (2.74%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.75%) .NET
2 20 (13.70%) XML
3 17 (11.64%) JSON
4 14 (9.59%) .NET Core
5 13 (8.90%) Node.js
5 13 (8.90%) Web Services
6 10 (6.85%) ARM Templates
6 10 (6.85%) Azure Blueprints
7 9 (6.16%) REST
7 9 (6.16%) SOAP
8 7 (4.79%) ASP.NET
8 7 (4.79%) Spring Boot
9 6 (4.11%) React
9 6 (4.11%) Spring
9 6 (4.11%) WebdriverIO
10 5 (3.42%) Gherkin
11 4 (2.74%) OAuth
11 4 (2.74%) OAuth2
11 4 (2.74%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 4 (2.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.01%) Management Information System
1 19 (13.01%) Onboarding
2 9 (6.16%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.11%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.42%) FMCG
4 5 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.74%) Blockchain
5 4 (2.74%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.74%) NFT
5 4 (2.74%) Replication
5 4 (2.74%) Web3
6 3 (2.05%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.05%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.37%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.37%) IoT
7 2 (1.37%) PMI
8 1 (0.68%) Clustering
8 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.79%) Windows
2 5 (3.42%) Unix
3 2 (1.37%) Android
3 2 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (65.75%) Test Automation
2 83 (56.85%) Agile
3 75 (51.37%) Functional Testing
4 59 (40.41%) Software Testing
5 55 (37.67%) DevOps
6 46 (31.51%) Test Strategy
7 34 (23.29%) CI/CD
7 34 (23.29%) Software Engineering
8 31 (21.23%) User Acceptance Testing
9 30 (20.55%) Test Scripting
10 29 (19.86%) Performance Testing
11 27 (18.49%) Mentoring
12 26 (17.81%) Regression Testing
13 25 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (15.75%) BDD
14 23 (15.75%) SDLC
15 22 (15.07%) API Testing
16 21 (14.38%) Scrum
17 20 (13.70%) Continuous Integration
17 20 (13.70%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (24.66%) SQL
2 33 (22.60%) C#
3 20 (13.70%) Java
4 19 (13.01%) JavaScript
5 16 (10.96%) Python
6 7 (4.79%) C
7 6 (4.11%) T-SQL
8 5 (3.42%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.74%) Rust
9 4 (2.74%) Solidity
9 4 (2.74%) VB
10 3 (2.05%) Scala
11 2 (1.37%) C++
12 1 (0.68%) Groovy
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (14.38%) ISTQB
1 21 (14.38%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (9.59%) Degree
4 9 (6.16%) ISEB
5 5 (3.42%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.74%) GIAC
7 3 (2.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.37%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.37%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.68%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (34.25%) QA
2 24 (16.44%) Accessibility
3 10 (6.85%) NCSC
4 2 (1.37%) GDPR
4 2 (1.37%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.37%) IEC 62304
4 2 (1.37%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 21 (14.38%) Docker
2 2 (1.37%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (1.37%) Firmware
3 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (10.96%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.85%) Ansible
2 10 (6.85%) Grafana
2 10 (6.85%) Terraform
3 5 (3.42%) Kibana
4 1 (0.68%) HP SiteScope
4 1 (0.68%) Perfmon
4 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 20 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.59%) Oracle
3 7 (4.79%) Splunk
4 6 (4.11%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.42%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.42%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.74%) Foundry
6 4 (2.74%) HP
7 3 (2.05%) Databricks
7 3 (2.05%) Micro Focus
7 3 (2.05%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.37%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.37%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.37%) iManage
8 2 (1.37%) Intapp
9 1 (0.68%) Citrix
9 1 (0.68%) Google
9 1 (0.68%) New Relic