Non-Functional Testing Jobs with Work from Home Options

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 472 515
Rank change year-on-year -47 +43 -74
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 70 186 386
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.46% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.48% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 61 118 215
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,499 £39,740
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,500 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.68% +6.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £60,741 £78,382 £89,750
UK median annual salary £49,665 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.63% - +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,860 38,962 68,422
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.20% 96.03% 97.03%
Number of salaries quoted 23,358 27,133 41,275
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Non-Functional Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Non-Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Non-Functional Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Non-Functional Testing.

Non-Functional Testing salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Non-Functional Testing salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (4.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.71%) BASE24
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 22 (31.43%) AWS
2 20 (28.57%) Azure
3 14 (20.00%) GitHub
4 12 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (17.14%) PaaS
5 11 (15.71%) SaaS
6 10 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (11.43%) IaaS
8 3 (4.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.71%) InfluxDB
1 4 (5.71%) MongoDB
1 4 (5.71%) NonStop SQL
1 4 (5.71%) Redis
2 3 (4.29%) Big Data
3 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (15.71%) Postman
2 10 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 9 (12.86%) JMeter
4 8 (11.43%) SonarQube
5 7 (10.00%) SoapUI
6 6 (8.57%) Selenium
7 4 (5.71%) GitLab
7 4 (5.71%) WebDriver
8 3 (4.29%) Cypress.io
8 3 (4.29%) JIRA
8 3 (4.29%) LoadRunner
9 2 (2.86%) Appium
9 2 (2.86%) Jenkins
9 2 (2.86%) JUnit
9 2 (2.86%) SpecFlow
9 2 (2.86%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.86%) TestNG
9 2 (2.86%) TestRail
10 1 (1.43%) NeoLoad
10 1 (1.43%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (18.57%) Finance
3 10 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.43%) Social Skills
5 6 (8.57%) Police
6 5 (7.14%) Banking
7 4 (5.71%) Welsh Language
8 3 (4.29%) Legal
9 2 (2.86%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 20 (28.57%) Analyst
1 20 (28.57%) Senior
1 20 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 18 (25.71%) Test Analyst
3 12 (17.14%) Senior Test Engineer
4 10 (14.29%) QA Engineer
4 10 (14.29%) Tester
5 7 (10.00%) QA Tester
5 7 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (7.14%) Agile Tester
6 5 (7.14%) Senior Test Analyst
7 4 (5.71%) Administrator
7 4 (5.71%) BASE24 Administrator
7 4 (5.71%) Lead
7 4 (5.71%) Security Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.71%) Systems Analyst
7 4 (5.71%) Systems Test Analyst
8 3 (4.29%) Senior Tester
8 3 (4.29%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.43%) ARM Templates
1 8 (11.43%) Azure Blueprints
1 8 (11.43%) Spring
1 8 (11.43%) Spring Boot
2 4 (5.71%) Gherkin
2 4 (5.71%) Node.js
2 4 (5.71%) OAuth
2 4 (5.71%) OAuth2
2 4 (5.71%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (5.71%) SOAP
2 4 (5.71%) WebdriverIO
2 4 (5.71%) XML
3 3 (4.29%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (4.29%) Web Services
4 2 (2.86%) RESTful
5 1 (1.43%) Playwright
5 1 (1.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.14%) Onboarding
2 11 (15.71%) Product Ownership
3 10 (14.29%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.71%) Replication
5 3 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.86%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.43%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (1.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 44 (62.86%) Functional Testing
3 43 (61.43%) Agile
4 35 (50.00%) Software Testing
5 26 (37.14%) Test Strategy
6 24 (34.29%) CI/CD
7 22 (31.43%) Mentoring
8 20 (28.57%) Software Engineering
9 18 (25.71%) Regression Testing
10 17 (24.29%) DevOps
11 16 (22.86%) User Acceptance Testing
12 15 (21.43%) Agile Testing
12 15 (21.43%) BDD
12 15 (21.43%) Coaching
12 15 (21.43%) Performance Testing
13 14 (20.00%) Load Testing
13 14 (20.00%) TDD
14 12 (17.14%) Containerisation
14 12 (17.14%) Scrum
14 12 (17.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.14%) Java
2 9 (12.86%) SQL
3 7 (10.00%) C#
3 7 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.14%) Python
5 3 (4.29%) Scala
6 2 (2.86%) C
7 1 (1.43%) Groovy
7 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 15 (21.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (15.71%) ISTQB
4 8 (11.43%) ISEB
5 6 (8.57%) Degree
6 4 (5.71%) GIAC
6 4 (5.71%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (35.71%) QA
2 13 (18.57%) Accessibility
3 8 (11.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (17.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (12.86%) Grafana
2 8 (11.43%) Ansible
2 8 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.43%) Terraform
3 4 (5.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (14.29%) Oracle
2 6 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.71%) HP
3 4 (5.71%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.71%) Splunk
4 3 (4.29%) Databricks
4 3 (4.29%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.86%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.43%) OpenAI