Non-Functional Testing Job Trends in Cardiff

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Non-Functional Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - 59
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 3 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.56% - 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% - 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £61,425 - -
25th Percentile £61,688 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,250 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £67,688 - -
90th Percentile £68,475 - -
South Wales median annual salary £62,500 - £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Non-Functional Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 364 150 527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 68.42% 89.29% 79.73%
Number of salaries quoted 245 110 473
10th Percentile £28,100 £31,250 £30,524
25th Percentile £41,856 £37,500 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,685
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +8.51% -1.10%
75th Percentile £69,576 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,400 £78,000 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £52,592 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.93% +10.72% +4.41%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Non-Functional Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Non-Functional Testing job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Non-Functional Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Non-Functional Testing

Non-Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JMeter
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
3 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Postman
3 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
3 1 (33.33%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Business Case
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Line Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle