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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 735 604 624
Rank change year-on-year -131 +20 -76
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 153 418 781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.41% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.43% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 130 245 447
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,484 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,123 £47,500 £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 £72,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £86,250 £90,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +7.14% +3.16%

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 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 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%

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 8 May 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 8 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 -142 127 £52,500 -8.70% 38
UK excluding London -89 91 £47,500 -9.52% 17
Work from Home -44 72 £50,000 -13.04% 29
London -39 46 £63,112 -2.90% 19
Midlands +5 34 £49,329 +9.62% 2
West Midlands +29 29 £42,500 -12.82% 1
South East -9 20 £47,500 -13.64% 4
North of England +10 17 £50,000 -9.09% 7
North West +9 11 £45,000 -18.18% 5
Wales +15 9 £45,000 -6.25%
South West -37 6 £57,500 +31.15% 3
Yorkshire +54 5 £50,000 -16.67% 2
East Midlands -29 5 £49,329 +31.54% 1
Scotland -67 4 £50,000 -16.67% 1
East of England +2 1 - -
North East -10 1 £57,965 +8.85%

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 (2.61%) OpenZeppelin
2 3 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.61%) BASE24
2 3 (1.96%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (37.91%) Azure
2 34 (22.22%) AWS
3 23 (15.03%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (11.76%) GitHub
5 14 (9.15%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (9.15%) PaaS
5 14 (9.15%) SaaS
6 8 (5.23%) IaaS
7 5 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.96%) Contentful
8 3 (1.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (1.31%) GCP
9 2 (1.31%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.65%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.65%) Firebase
10 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.61%) IPFS
1 4 (2.61%) Wireless
2 2 (1.31%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.42%) Relational Database
2 10 (6.54%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.27%) DynamoDB
3 5 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.27%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.27%) Redis
4 4 (2.61%) InfluxDB
4 4 (2.61%) NonStop SQL
4 4 (2.61%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.96%) Big Data
6 2 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.31%) MySQL
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.65%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (16.34%) Postman
1 25 (16.34%) Selenium
2 18 (11.76%) JMeter
3 16 (10.46%) Cucumber
4 15 (9.80%) JIRA
4 15 (9.80%) WebDriver
5 13 (8.50%) LoadRunner
6 12 (7.84%) SoapUI
7 11 (7.19%) NUnit
7 11 (7.19%) Visual Studio
8 9 (5.88%) GitLab
9 8 (5.23%) Cypress.io
9 8 (5.23%) SonarQube
10 5 (3.27%) Gatling
10 5 (3.27%) Git
10 5 (3.27%) Jenkins
10 5 (3.27%) MSTest
11 4 (2.61%) Appium
11 4 (2.61%) Hardhat
11 4 (2.61%) NeoLoad
General
1 25 (16.34%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (14.38%) Finance
4 21 (13.73%) Public Sector
5 17 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (6.54%) Police
7 7 (4.58%) Banking
8 5 (3.27%) Marketing
9 4 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.61%) Law
9 4 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.61%) Retail
9 4 (2.61%) Welsh Language
10 3 (1.96%) Legal
11 2 (1.31%) Electronics
11 2 (1.31%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (1.31%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.31%) Wearables
12 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 34 (22.22%) Senior
2 32 (20.92%) Test Engineer
3 30 (19.61%) Analyst
4 28 (18.30%) Test Analyst
5 24 (15.69%) Tester
6 18 (11.76%) Senior Test Engineer
7 14 (9.15%) Lead
8 12 (7.84%) QA Engineer
9 9 (5.88%) Developer
9 9 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (4.58%) Performance Tester
10 7 (4.58%) QA Tester
10 7 (4.58%) Senior Test Analyst
10 7 (4.58%) Test Automation Engineer
10 7 (4.58%) Test Manager
11 5 (3.27%) Agile Tester
11 5 (3.27%) QA Leader
11 5 (3.27%) Service Design Manager
11 5 (3.27%) Service Transition Manager
11 5 (3.27%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.03%) .NET
2 20 (13.07%) XML
3 17 (11.11%) JSON
4 14 (9.15%) .NET Core
4 14 (9.15%) Web Services
5 13 (8.50%) Node.js
6 10 (6.54%) REST
7 9 (5.88%) SOAP
7 9 (5.88%) Spring
7 9 (5.88%) Spring Boot
8 8 (5.23%) ARM Templates
8 8 (5.23%) Azure Blueprints
9 7 (4.58%) ASP.NET
10 6 (3.92%) React
10 6 (3.92%) WebdriverIO
11 5 (3.27%) Middleware
12 4 (2.61%) OAuth2
12 4 (2.61%) Truffle
12 4 (2.61%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 4 (2.61%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 17 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 12 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.58%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.27%) FMCG
4 5 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.61%) Blockchain
5 4 (2.61%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.61%) NFT
5 4 (2.61%) Replication
5 4 (2.61%) Web3
6 3 (1.96%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.31%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.31%) IoT
8 1 (0.65%) Clustering
8 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.65%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.92%) Windows
2 5 (3.27%) Unix
3 2 (1.31%) Android
3 2 (1.31%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (65.36%) Test Automation
2 90 (58.82%) Agile
3 77 (50.33%) Functional Testing
4 64 (41.83%) Software Testing
5 55 (35.95%) DevOps
6 48 (31.37%) Test Strategy
7 39 (25.49%) CI/CD
8 33 (21.57%) User Acceptance Testing
9 32 (20.92%) Test Scripting
10 31 (20.26%) Software Engineering
11 30 (19.61%) Performance Testing
12 26 (16.99%) Mentoring
12 26 (16.99%) Regression Testing
12 26 (16.99%) SDLC
13 25 (16.34%) BDD
14 24 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (15.69%) Scrum
15 23 (15.03%) API Testing
16 22 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (13.73%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 36 (23.53%) SQL
2 35 (22.88%) C#
3 23 (15.03%) Java
4 20 (13.07%) JavaScript
5 18 (11.76%) Python
6 7 (4.58%) C
6 7 (4.58%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.27%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.61%) Rust
8 4 (2.61%) Scala
8 4 (2.61%) Solidity
8 4 (2.61%) VB
9 2 (1.31%) C++
10 1 (0.65%) Groovy
10 1 (0.65%) Perl
10 1 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (13.07%) ISTQB
2 19 (12.42%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (8.50%) Degree
5 11 (7.19%) ISEB
6 5 (3.27%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.61%) GIAC
8 3 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.31%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.65%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (35.95%) QA
2 25 (16.34%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.23%) NCSC
4 2 (1.31%) GDPR
4 2 (1.31%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.31%) IEC 62304
4 2 (1.31%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 20 (13.07%) Docker
2 2 (1.31%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (1.31%) Firmware
3 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (9.15%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.54%) Grafana
3 8 (5.23%) Ansible
3 8 (5.23%) Terraform
4 5 (3.27%) Kibana
5 1 (0.65%) HP SiteScope
5 1 (0.65%) Perfmon
5 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.80%) Oracle
3 8 (5.23%) Splunk
4 6 (3.92%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.27%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.27%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.61%) Databricks
6 4 (2.61%) Foundry
6 4 (2.61%) HP
7 3 (1.96%) Micro Focus
7 3 (1.96%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.31%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.31%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.31%) iManage
8 2 (1.31%) Intapp
9 1 (0.65%) Citrix
9 1 (0.65%) Google
9 1 (0.65%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.65%) New Relic