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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 739 566 622
Rank change year-on-year -173 +56 -72
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 157 461 755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.44% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.46% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 133 266 439
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,543 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,998 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £60,741 £70,938 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £85,625 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,250 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.50% +5.26% -

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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -134 131 £52,500 -8.21% 27
UK excluding London -78 94 £48,250 -3.50% 16
Work from Home -37 72 £49,500 -13.91% 13
London -47 47 £62,500 -3.85% 15
Midlands +8 35 £49,329 +9.62% 1
West Midlands +44 30 £42,500 -12.82% 1
South East 0 19 £47,500 -13.64% 6
North of England +16 18 £50,000 -9.09% 4
North West +14 11 £45,000 -18.18% 3
Wales +19 9 £45,000 -6.25%
South West -13 8 £60,000 +36.85% 2
Yorkshire +65 5 £50,000 +11.11% 1
East Midlands -32 5 £49,329 +31.54%
Scotland -74 4 £50,000 -16.67% 3
North East -11 2 £56,482 +0.86%
East of England +1 1 - -

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 (2.55%) OpenZeppelin
2 3 (1.91%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.64%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.55%) BASE24
2 3 (1.91%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (36.94%) Azure
2 35 (22.29%) AWS
3 23 (14.65%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (12.10%) GitHub
5 15 (9.55%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (8.92%) PaaS
6 14 (8.92%) SaaS
7 8 (5.10%) IaaS
8 6 (3.82%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.91%) Contentful
9 3 (1.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.27%) GCP
10 2 (1.27%) Tricentis Tosca
11 1 (0.64%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.64%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.64%) Firebase
11 1 (0.64%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.55%) IPFS
1 4 (2.55%) Wireless
2 2 (1.27%) HTTP
3 1 (0.64%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.10%) Relational Database
2 10 (6.37%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.82%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.18%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.18%) Redis
5 4 (2.55%) InfluxDB
5 4 (2.55%) NonStop SQL
5 4 (2.55%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.91%) Big Data
6 3 (1.91%) MySQL
7 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.64%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (16.56%) Postman
2 24 (15.29%) Selenium
3 20 (12.74%) JMeter
4 16 (10.19%) Cucumber
5 14 (8.92%) JIRA
6 13 (8.28%) LoadRunner
6 13 (8.28%) WebDriver
7 11 (7.01%) NUnit
7 11 (7.01%) Visual Studio
8 10 (6.37%) GitLab
8 10 (6.37%) SoapUI
9 8 (5.10%) Cypress.io
9 8 (5.10%) SonarQube
10 6 (3.82%) Jenkins
11 5 (3.18%) Gatling
11 5 (3.18%) Git
11 5 (3.18%) MSTest
12 4 (2.55%) Hardhat
12 4 (2.55%) NeoLoad
13 3 (1.91%) Appium
General
1 26 (16.56%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (14.01%) Finance
4 20 (12.74%) Public Sector
5 17 (10.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (6.37%) Police
7 7 (4.46%) Banking
8 6 (3.82%) Marketing
9 5 (3.18%) Law
10 4 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.55%) Retail
10 4 (2.55%) Welsh Language
11 2 (1.27%) Electronics
11 2 (1.27%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.27%) Wearables
12 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.64%) Legal
12 1 (0.64%) Military
12 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (21.66%) Senior
2 33 (21.02%) Test Engineer
3 30 (19.11%) Analyst
4 28 (17.83%) Test Analyst
5 26 (16.56%) Tester
6 18 (11.46%) Senior Test Engineer
7 14 (8.92%) Lead
7 14 (8.92%) QA Engineer
8 9 (5.73%) Developer
8 9 (5.73%) Senior Analyst
9 8 (5.10%) QA Tester
9 8 (5.10%) Test Automation Engineer
10 7 (4.46%) Performance Tester
10 7 (4.46%) Senior Test Analyst
11 6 (3.82%) Service Design Manager
11 6 (3.82%) Service Manager
11 6 (3.82%) Service Transition Manager
11 6 (3.82%) Test Manager
11 6 (3.82%) Transition Manager
12 5 (3.18%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.29%) .NET
2 20 (12.74%) XML
3 17 (10.83%) JSON
4 14 (8.92%) .NET Core
4 14 (8.92%) Web Services
5 13 (8.28%) Node.js
6 11 (7.01%) REST
7 9 (5.73%) SOAP
7 9 (5.73%) Spring
7 9 (5.73%) Spring Boot
8 8 (5.10%) ARM Templates
8 8 (5.10%) Azure Blueprints
9 7 (4.46%) ASP.NET
10 6 (3.82%) Middleware
10 6 (3.82%) React
10 6 (3.82%) WebdriverIO
11 4 (2.55%) OAuth2
11 4 (2.55%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 4 (2.55%) Truffle
11 4 (2.55%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.83%) Onboarding
2 15 (9.55%) Management Information System
3 12 (7.64%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.46%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.18%) FMCG
5 5 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.55%) Blockchain
6 4 (2.55%) NFT
6 4 (2.55%) Replication
6 4 (2.55%) Web3
7 3 (1.91%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.91%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.91%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.27%) IoT
8 2 (1.27%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.82%) Windows
2 5 (3.18%) Unix
3 2 (1.27%) Android
3 2 (1.27%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (64.97%) Test Automation
2 91 (57.96%) Agile
3 78 (49.68%) Functional Testing
4 68 (43.31%) Software Testing
5 55 (35.03%) DevOps
6 47 (29.94%) Test Strategy
7 39 (24.84%) CI/CD
8 34 (21.66%) Test Scripting
9 32 (20.38%) User Acceptance Testing
10 31 (19.75%) Software Engineering
11 29 (18.47%) Performance Testing
12 28 (17.83%) SDLC
13 26 (16.56%) Regression Testing
14 25 (15.92%) BDD
15 24 (15.29%) API Testing
15 24 (15.29%) Scrum
16 23 (14.65%) Continuous Integration
16 23 (14.65%) Mentoring
17 22 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
18 21 (13.38%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 37 (23.57%) SQL
2 36 (22.93%) C#
3 23 (14.65%) Java
4 21 (13.38%) JavaScript
5 17 (10.83%) Python
6 8 (5.10%) C
6 8 (5.10%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.18%) Scala
7 5 (3.18%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.55%) Rust
8 4 (2.55%) Solidity
8 4 (2.55%) VB
9 3 (1.91%) C++
10 1 (0.64%) Go
10 1 (0.64%) Groovy
10 1 (0.64%) Perl
10 1 (0.64%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (13.38%) ISTQB
2 20 (12.74%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (8.28%) Degree
5 12 (7.64%) ISEB
6 6 (3.82%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.55%) GIAC
8 3 (1.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.27%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.64%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (36.94%) QA
2 24 (15.29%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.10%) NCSC
4 2 (1.27%) GDPR
4 2 (1.27%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.27%) IEC 62304
4 2 (1.27%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 21 (13.38%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (1.27%) Firmware
3 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (9.55%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.37%) Grafana
3 8 (5.10%) Ansible
3 8 (5.10%) Terraform
4 5 (3.18%) Kibana
5 1 (0.64%) Consul
5 1 (0.64%) HP SiteScope
5 1 (0.64%) Packer
5 1 (0.64%) Perfmon
5 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.55%) Oracle
3 8 (5.10%) Splunk
4 6 (3.82%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.18%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.18%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.55%) Databricks
6 4 (2.55%) Foundry
6 4 (2.55%) HP
7 3 (1.91%) Micro Focus
7 3 (1.91%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.27%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.27%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.27%) Google
8 2 (1.27%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.27%) iManage
8 2 (1.27%) Intapp
9 1 (0.64%) Citrix
9 1 (0.64%) New Relic