Functional Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Functional Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Functional Testing over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 634 519 357
Rank change year-on-year -115 -162 +110
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 282 557 1,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.55% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.57% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 186 297 533
10th Percentile £33,914 £38,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,503
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +7.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Functional Testing in the UK

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 Functional Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
England -76 265 £50,000 -9.09% 80
UK excluding London -70 212 £50,000 -9.09% 57
Work from Home -16 121 £52,500 - 26
South East +25 65 £49,000 -2.00% 13
London -45 61 £52,500 -8.70% 20
Midlands +26 53 £50,000 -11.11% 10
West Midlands +57 48 £50,000 - 5
North of England +16 48 £47,500 -17.39% 11
North West +20 31 £47,500 -17.39% 7
East of England -21 23 £62,500 +48.81% 12
Yorkshire +53 16 £50,000 -23.08% 3
South West -44 13 £34,579 -44.67% 8
Scotland -76 8 £35,776 -25.90% 2
East Midlands -31 5 £49,329 -29.53% 5
Wales +12 2 £33,000 -37.73% 2
North East -9 1 - - 1

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 12 (4.26%) Confluence
2 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.06%) WordPress
3 1 (0.35%) Appian
3 1 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.35%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 89 (31.56%) Azure
2 64 (22.70%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (14.18%) IBM Cloud
4 29 (10.28%) AWS
5 20 (7.09%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (4.61%) GitHub
6 13 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (4.61%) PaaS
7 9 (3.19%) SaaS
8 8 (2.84%) IaaS
9 6 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.06%) Contentful
10 3 (1.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (0.71%) GCP
11 2 (0.71%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.71%) Serverless
12 1 (0.35%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.35%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.35%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.35%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.84%) Wireless
2 5 (1.77%) Internet
3 4 (1.42%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.42%) RS-232
3 4 (1.42%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.35%) HTTP
4 1 (0.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.90%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.19%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.77%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.77%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.77%) Redis
5 4 (1.42%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.06%) Big Data
7 2 (0.71%) Power BI
8 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.35%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.35%) MS Access
8 1 (0.35%) MySQL
8 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 44 (15.60%) JIRA
2 27 (9.57%) Selenium
3 20 (7.09%) Postman
4 17 (6.03%) Cucumber
5 16 (5.67%) MSTest
6 15 (5.32%) Git
7 13 (4.61%) JMeter
8 11 (3.90%) SoapUI
9 10 (3.55%) LoadRunner
9 10 (3.55%) Team Foundation Server
10 8 (2.84%) SonarQube
11 7 (2.48%) Bitbucket
12 6 (2.13%) Cypress.io
12 6 (2.13%) Subversion
12 6 (2.13%) Visual Studio
13 5 (1.77%) Appium
13 5 (1.77%) GitLab
13 5 (1.77%) HP UFT
14 4 (1.42%) JUnit
14 4 (1.42%) TestNG
General
1 64 (22.70%) Social Skills
2 60 (21.28%) Public Sector
3 53 (18.79%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.99%) Finance
5 25 (8.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (6.38%) Police
7 13 (4.61%) Electronics
7 13 (4.61%) Legal
7 13 (4.61%) Marketing
8 10 (3.55%) Manufacturing
8 10 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.19%) Retail
10 6 (2.13%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.77%) Banking
12 4 (1.42%) Law
13 3 (1.06%) Local Government
13 3 (1.06%) Publishing
14 2 (0.71%) Back Office
14 2 (0.71%) Mandarin Language
14 2 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 63 (22.34%) Analyst
2 58 (20.57%) Senior
3 53 (18.79%) Test Analyst
4 32 (11.35%) Developer
5 29 (10.28%) Test Engineer
6 18 (6.38%) Senior Developer
7 16 (5.67%) .NET Developer
8 14 (4.96%) Tester
9 12 (4.26%) QA Engineer
9 12 (4.26%) Test Manager
10 8 (2.84%) Lead
10 8 (2.84%) Senior .NET Developer
10 8 (2.84%) Senior Test Engineer
10 8 (2.84%) Software Developer
10 8 (2.84%) Software Engineer
11 7 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
11 7 (2.48%) Senior Manager
11 7 (2.48%) Senior Software Developer
11 7 (2.48%) Software Test Engineer
11 7 (2.48%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.35%) .NET
2 16 (5.67%) Web Services
3 12 (4.26%) ASP.NET Web API
3 12 (4.26%) REST
4 11 (3.90%) Kafka
4 11 (3.90%) MSMQ
4 11 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
4 11 (3.90%) WCF
5 10 (3.55%) React
6 9 (3.19%) Node.js
6 9 (3.19%) Spring
6 9 (3.19%) Spring Boot
7 8 (2.84%) ARM Templates
7 8 (2.84%) Azure Blueprints
8 7 (2.48%) ASP.NET
9 6 (2.13%) SOAP
10 5 (1.77%) CSS
10 5 (1.77%) HTML
10 5 (1.77%) JSON
10 5 (1.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (15.96%) Product Ownership
2 41 (14.54%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (14.18%) Blockchain
3 40 (14.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 28 (9.93%) Management Information System
5 19 (6.74%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (6.38%) Algorithms
6 18 (6.38%) Data Structures
7 17 (6.03%) Mobile App
8 15 (5.32%) Video\Live Streaming
9 13 (4.61%) IoT
9 13 (4.61%) Onboarding
10 9 (3.19%) Graphic Design
11 8 (2.84%) Cloud Native
12 6 (2.13%) Animation
12 6 (2.13%) BBC
12 6 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.42%) CCTV
13 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.42%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 44 (15.60%) Linux
2 40 (14.18%) Alpine Linux
2 40 (14.18%) CentOS
2 40 (14.18%) Debian
3 5 (1.77%) Windows
4 1 (0.35%) Android
4 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (45.39%) Software Testing
2 127 (45.04%) Agile
3 124 (43.97%) Test Automation
4 105 (37.23%) DevOps
5 77 (27.30%) Non-Functional Testing
6 73 (25.89%) User Acceptance Testing
7 71 (25.18%) CI/CD
8 70 (24.82%) Regression Testing
9 67 (23.76%) Test Strategy
10 56 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (19.86%) Scrum
11 46 (16.31%) Performance Testing
12 45 (15.96%) Test Scripting
13 43 (15.25%) Artificial Intelligence
14 42 (14.89%) Technology Transformation
15 41 (14.54%) Co-Creation
16 40 (14.18%) Computer Science
16 40 (14.18%) Data Science
16 40 (14.18%) Separation of Concerns
16 40 (14.18%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 52 (18.44%) C#
2 37 (13.12%) SQL
3 32 (11.35%) Python
4 29 (10.28%) Java
5 21 (7.45%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.19%) C
7 6 (2.13%) PHP
8 5 (1.77%) Embedded C
8 5 (1.77%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.42%) C++
9 4 (1.42%) VB
10 3 (1.06%) Scala
10 3 (1.06%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.71%) Go
11 2 (0.71%) Lua
11 2 (0.71%) Ruby
11 2 (0.71%) Rust
12 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 69 (24.47%) Degree
2 41 (14.54%) Azure Certification
3 40 (14.18%) MCSA
3 40 (14.18%) MCSE
3 40 (14.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 28 (9.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 28 (9.93%) Security Cleared
5 22 (7.80%) ISTQB
6 17 (6.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (4.61%) SC Cleared
8 12 (4.26%) ISEB
9 10 (3.55%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.13%) CSPO
10 6 (2.13%) CTC Cleared
10 6 (2.13%) IIBA
10 6 (2.13%) Numerate Degree
11 5 (1.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.42%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (1.42%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (24.47%) QA
2 9 (3.19%) GDPR
3 8 (2.84%) NCSC
4 6 (2.13%) PMO
5 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.71%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.71%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 61 (21.63%) Docker
2 15 (5.32%) Firmware
3 12 (4.26%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.35%) OpenSIPS
6 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (19.15%) Kubernetes
2 48 (17.02%) Terraform
3 8 (2.84%) Ansible
4 5 (1.77%) Grafana
4 5 (1.77%) Kibana
5 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.35%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 42 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 41 (14.54%) IBM
2 41 (14.54%) Red Hat
3 16 (5.67%) Salesforce
4 15 (5.32%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.13%) Google
5 6 (2.13%) Splunk
6 4 (1.42%) Databricks
7 3 (1.06%) Adobe
8 2 (0.71%) Oracle
9 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.35%) HP
9 1 (0.35%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.35%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.35%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.35%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.35%) VMware