Functional Testing Jobs in the West Midlands

Functional Testing
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 17 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 278 262
Rank change year-on-year +76 -16 -44
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 49 8 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.69% 0.12% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.12% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 47 6 14
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,125 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £29,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £39,375
Median % change year-on-year - +26.98% -17.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,438 £42,344
90th Percentile £62,200 £66,875 £56,125
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,875 6,716 6,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.18% 96.94% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,535 3,334 4,829
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,075 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,250 £40,000 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the West Midlands

Functional Testing
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Functional Testing in the West Midlands

Functional Testing
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Functional Testing in the West Midlands

Functional Testing
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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
Birmingham +17 24 £50,000 -20.00% 2
Solihull - 6 £50,000 - 2
Warwickshire +58 5 £42,500 +4.94% 2
Staffordshire -11 5 £40,000 -11.11%
Coventry - 1 £40,000 -
Functional Testing
England

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (6.12%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.86%) AWS
2 13 (26.53%) Azure
3 8 (16.33%) GitHub
3 8 (16.33%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (16.33%) PaaS
4 7 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (14.29%) IaaS
4 7 (14.29%) SaaS
5 3 (6.12%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.37%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.20%) DynamoDB
2 5 (10.20%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.16%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (8.16%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (18.37%) Cucumber
2 8 (16.33%) Postman
3 7 (14.29%) SonarQube
4 5 (10.20%) JIRA
4 5 (10.20%) MSTest
4 5 (10.20%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.04%) Appium
5 1 (2.04%) GitLab
5 1 (2.04%) JUnit
5 1 (2.04%) Selenium
5 1 (2.04%) TestNG
General
1 23 (46.94%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (32.65%) Social Skills
3 12 (24.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (22.45%) Finance
5 5 (10.20%) Banking
6 4 (8.16%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (8.16%) Police
7 3 (6.12%) Law
8 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (4.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (18.37%) QA Engineer
2 8 (16.33%) Senior
2 8 (16.33%) Tester
3 6 (12.24%) Test Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Agile Tester
4 5 (10.20%) QA Tester
4 5 (10.20%) Senior Test Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Head of Test
6 3 (6.12%) Product Manager
6 3 (6.12%) QA Automation Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Product Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Software Tester
7 2 (4.08%) Test Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.04%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.04%) Cloud Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.04%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.04%) Lead
8 1 (2.04%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.37%) Spring
1 9 (18.37%) Spring Boot
2 7 (14.29%) .NET
2 7 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 7 (14.29%) Azure Blueprints
3 5 (10.20%) JSON
3 5 (10.20%) Node.js
3 5 (10.20%) REST
3 5 (10.20%) SOAP
3 5 (10.20%) XML
4 4 (8.16%) ASP.NET
4 4 (8.16%) React
4 4 (8.16%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 4 (8.16%) YAML
5 1 (2.04%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 28 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 14 (28.57%) Mobile App
2 14 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (24.49%) Management Information System
4 8 (16.33%) Onboarding
5 3 (6.12%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (89.80%) Test Automation
2 35 (71.43%) Software Testing
3 31 (63.27%) Agile
4 29 (59.18%) Non-Functional Testing
5 27 (55.10%) Test Strategy
6 24 (48.98%) Test Scripting
7 21 (42.86%) Mentoring
8 19 (38.78%) Security Testing
9 18 (36.73%) Regression Testing
10 17 (34.69%) DevOps
10 17 (34.69%) Scrum
10 17 (34.69%) SDLC
10 17 (34.69%) Test Management
11 16 (32.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (30.61%) Performance Testing
12 15 (30.61%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (30.61%) Test Planning
13 14 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
13 14 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
13 14 (28.57%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.49%) SQL
2 10 (20.41%) Java
3 9 (18.37%) C#
4 6 (12.24%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.20%) Python
5 5 (10.20%) T-SQL
6 4 (8.16%) C
6 4 (8.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 14 (28.57%) Degree
2 9 (18.37%) Security Cleared
3 8 (16.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (6.12%) CSPO
4 3 (6.12%) IIBA
5 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (40.82%) QA
2 7 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (24.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (22.45%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.29%) Ansible
2 7 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (2.04%) Grafana
3 1 (2.04%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.16%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.12%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.04%) Google
4 1 (2.04%) Splunk