Functional Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Functional Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Functional Testing over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 473 317
Rank change year-on-year -104 -156 +70
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 203 270 827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.49% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.51% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 114 137 264
10th Percentile £32,650 £38,400 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,313 £42,500 £37,472
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £64,106
90th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £71,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Functional Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,702 52,760 72,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.77% 95.48% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,767 28,367 41,386
10th Percentile £27,500 £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% +8.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Functional Testing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
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 Functional Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East -24 63 £45,000 -8.63% 13
Midlands -14 53 £50,000 -9.09% 12
West Midlands +30 48 £50,000 -9.09% 6
North of England -10 41 £50,000 -13.04% 14
North West -21 25 £47,500 -17.39% 11
East of England -41 23 £62,500 +60.26% 10
Yorkshire +48 15 £50,000 -32.20% 2
Scotland -74 11 £35,776 -22.02% 6
South West -73 10 £36,250 -43.14% 10
East Midlands -45 5 £49,329 -29.53% 6
Wales +13 2 £33,000 -37.73% 1
North East -22 1 - - 1
Functional Testing
UK

Functional Testing
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 12 (5.91%) Confluence
2 3 (1.48%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.48%) WildFly
2 3 (1.48%) WordPress
3 1 (0.49%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 73 (35.96%) Azure
2 54 (26.60%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (19.70%) Azure AI
3 40 (19.70%) IBM Cloud
4 21 (10.34%) AWS
5 13 (6.40%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (5.42%) GitHub
6 11 (5.42%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (5.42%) PaaS
6 11 (5.42%) SaaS
7 10 (4.93%) IaaS
8 7 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.48%) Contentful
10 2 (0.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.49%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.46%) Internet
2 4 (1.97%) Ethernet
2 4 (1.97%) RS-232
2 4 (1.97%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.97%) Wireless
3 1 (0.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.42%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.45%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.46%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.97%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.48%) Big Data
6 1 (0.49%) MS Access
6 1 (0.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (12.81%) JIRA
2 18 (8.87%) Selenium
3 16 (7.88%) MSTest
4 15 (7.39%) Git
5 14 (6.90%) Postman
6 13 (6.40%) JMeter
7 10 (4.93%) Cucumber
7 10 (4.93%) SonarQube
8 9 (4.43%) LoadRunner
9 8 (3.94%) SoapUI
10 7 (3.45%) Cypress.io
10 7 (3.45%) Visual Studio
11 6 (2.96%) Bitbucket
11 6 (2.96%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (2.46%) HP UFT
12 5 (2.46%) Subversion
13 3 (1.48%) Appium
14 2 (0.99%) Bugzilla
14 2 (0.99%) IntelliJ
14 2 (0.99%) REST Assured
General
1 49 (24.14%) Public Sector
2 45 (22.17%) Social Skills
3 40 (19.70%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (8.87%) Finance
6 10 (4.93%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.93%) Marketing
7 9 (4.43%) Legal
7 9 (4.43%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.45%) Banking
9 6 (2.96%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.96%) Police
10 5 (2.46%) Retail
11 3 (1.48%) Publishing
12 2 (0.99%) Aviation
12 2 (0.99%) Electronics
12 2 (0.99%) Law
12 2 (0.99%) Military
12 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.49%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 38 (18.72%) Senior
2 25 (12.32%) Test Engineer
3 24 (11.82%) Analyst
4 20 (9.85%) Test Analyst
5 19 (9.36%) Developer
6 12 (5.91%) Senior Developer
7 10 (4.93%) .NET Developer
7 10 (4.93%) Lead
8 9 (4.43%) QA Engineer
8 9 (4.43%) Test Leader
9 8 (3.94%) Software Developer
10 7 (3.45%) Senior .NET Developer
10 7 (3.45%) Senior Test Engineer
10 7 (3.45%) Test Manager
10 7 (3.45%) Tester
11 6 (2.96%) Author
11 6 (2.96%) Product Manager
11 6 (2.96%) Senior Manager
11 6 (2.96%) Software Engineer
11 6 (2.96%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.33%) .NET
2 13 (6.40%) REST
3 12 (5.91%) Web Services
4 10 (4.93%) ARM Templates
4 10 (4.93%) Azure Blueprints
5 8 (3.94%) Kafka
5 8 (3.94%) MSMQ
5 8 (3.94%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (3.94%) SOAP
5 8 (3.94%) Spring
5 8 (3.94%) Spring Boot
6 7 (3.45%) ADO
6 7 (3.45%) ASP.NET
6 7 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
6 7 (3.45%) React
6 7 (3.45%) WCF
7 5 (2.46%) JSON
7 5 (2.46%) Node.js
7 5 (2.46%) XML
8 4 (1.97%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (19.70%) Blockchain
1 40 (19.70%) Distributed Systems
1 40 (19.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 38 (18.72%) Product Ownership
3 23 (11.33%) Management Information System
4 17 (8.37%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (7.88%) Algorithms
5 16 (7.88%) Data Structures
6 15 (7.39%) Mobile App
7 11 (5.42%) IoT
7 11 (5.42%) Onboarding
8 10 (4.93%) Video\Live Streaming
9 9 (4.43%) Graphic Design
10 6 (2.96%) Animation
11 4 (1.97%) CCTV
11 4 (1.97%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.97%) PMI
12 3 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 41 (20.20%) Linux
2 40 (19.70%) Alpine Linux
2 40 (19.70%) CentOS
2 40 (19.70%) Debian
3 7 (3.45%) Windows
4 1 (0.49%) Android
4 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (45.32%) Test Automation
2 86 (42.36%) Agile
3 82 (40.39%) DevOps
4 78 (38.42%) Software Testing
5 61 (30.05%) CI/CD
6 49 (24.14%) Non-Functional Testing
7 42 (20.69%) Technology Transformation
7 42 (20.69%) Test Strategy
8 40 (19.70%) Artificial Intelligence
8 40 (19.70%) Co-Creation
8 40 (19.70%) Data Science
8 40 (19.70%) Separation of Concerns
8 40 (19.70%) Task Automation
9 39 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (19.21%) Scrum
10 37 (18.23%) Regression Testing
11 36 (17.73%) Mentoring
12 35 (17.24%) Test Scripting
13 34 (16.75%) User Acceptance Testing
14 33 (16.26%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 35 (17.24%) C#
2 24 (11.82%) SQL
3 17 (8.37%) Python
4 15 (7.39%) Java
5 12 (5.91%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.43%) C
7 6 (2.96%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.46%) Embedded C
8 5 (2.46%) PHP
9 4 (1.97%) VB
10 3 (1.48%) Scala
10 3 (1.48%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.49%) C++
11 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 43 (21.18%) Degree
2 40 (19.70%) Azure Certification
2 40 (19.70%) MCSA
2 40 (19.70%) MCSE
2 40 (19.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 26 (12.81%) Security Cleared
4 24 (11.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (9.36%) ISTQB
6 14 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (5.42%) SC Cleared
8 8 (3.94%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.96%) CSPO
9 6 (2.96%) CTC Cleared
9 6 (2.96%) IIBA
10 5 (2.46%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.97%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (1.97%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (1.97%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.48%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.99%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (21.18%) QA
2 10 (4.93%) NCSC
3 4 (1.97%) PMO
4 1 (0.49%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (27.09%) Docker
2 4 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.48%) Firmware
4 2 (0.99%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (26.60%) Kubernetes
2 50 (24.63%) Terraform
3 10 (4.93%) Ansible
4 1 (0.49%) Grafana
4 1 (0.49%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.49%) Kibana
4 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 41 (20.20%) IBM
1 41 (20.20%) Red Hat
2 30 (14.78%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.91%) Salesforce
4 11 (5.42%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.48%) Adobe
5 3 (1.48%) Databricks
6 2 (0.99%) Google
6 2 (0.99%) Splunk
7 1 (0.49%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.49%) CyberTech
7 1 (0.49%) HP
7 1 (0.49%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.49%) VMware