Functional Testing Jobs in England

Functional Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Functional Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Functional Testing over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 609 587 495
Rank change year-on-year -22 -92 -155
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 80 261 480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.30% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.35% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 60 174 269
10th Percentile £36,000 £37,500 £38,200
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £44,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,200 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,250 £71,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% -9.09% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,835 73,609 84,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.17% 85.09% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 23,750 53,947 50,379
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in England

Functional Testing
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Functional Testing in England.

Salary trend for Functional Testing in England

Functional Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Functional Testing in England

Functional Testing
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2025. 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
London +80 23 £65,000 +23.81% 72
Midlands +23 16 £75,000 +50.00% 18
North of England +18 16 £47,500 -5.00% 35
North West -24 14 £47,500 - 19
West Midlands +25 12 £75,000 +50.00% 8
South East +33 9 £31,000 -36.73% 44
East of England +23 9 £53,000 -15.20% 19
East Midlands +23 4 £55,000 +11.50% 10
South West +95 3 £56,785 +41.96% 30
Yorkshire +56 1 £29,750 -40.50% 9
North East +41 1 £52,500 - 7
Functional Testing
UK

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.75%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.75%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.25%) Endur
1 1 (1.25%) Magento
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.25%) SAP APO
1 1 (1.25%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 24 (30.00%) Azure
2 20 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (16.25%) AWS
4 11 (13.75%) SaaS
5 10 (12.50%) GitHub
6 7 (8.75%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (8.75%) IaaS
6 7 (8.75%) PaaS
7 4 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (3.75%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.75%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.25%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) Ethernet
1 3 (3.75%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.25%) SpaceWire
2 1 (1.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.75%) MySQL
3 3 (3.75%) Big Data
3 3 (3.75%) Delta Lake
3 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.75%) Power BI
4 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (15.00%) Selenium
2 9 (11.25%) JIRA
3 7 (8.75%) Git
3 7 (8.75%) SonarQube
4 6 (7.50%) JMeter
4 6 (7.50%) Postman
5 5 (6.25%) Cypress.io
6 4 (5.00%) TestRail
7 3 (3.75%) Appium
7 3 (3.75%) Locust
7 3 (3.75%) PHPUnit
7 3 (3.75%) Robot Framework
7 3 (3.75%) WebDriver
8 2 (2.50%) JUnit
8 2 (2.50%) LoadRunner
8 2 (2.50%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.25%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.25%) TestComplete
General
1 17 (21.25%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.25%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.00%) Finance
4 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Electronics
5 5 (6.25%) Games
5 5 (6.25%) Legal
6 3 (3.75%) Law
6 3 (3.75%) Retail
7 2 (2.50%) Billing
7 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.50%) Marketing
7 2 (2.50%) Military
7 2 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.25%) Back Office
8 1 (1.25%) Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (23.75%) Developer
2 12 (15.00%) Senior
3 11 (13.75%) Software Developer
3 11 (13.75%) Tester
4 8 (10.00%) Test Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) .NET Developer
5 7 (8.75%) .NET Software Developer
5 7 (8.75%) Analyst
5 7 (8.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) Lead
6 6 (7.50%) Software Tester
7 5 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 5 (6.25%) Site Manager
8 4 (5.00%) QA Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Manager
8 4 (5.00%) Test Leader
9 3 (3.75%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) QA Tester
9 3 (3.75%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.75%) .NET
2 9 (11.25%) CSS
2 9 (11.25%) HTML
3 8 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 7 (8.75%) ARM Templates
4 7 (8.75%) Azure Blueprints
4 7 (8.75%) Node.js
4 7 (8.75%) React
5 4 (5.00%) Playwright
5 4 (5.00%) Redux
6 3 (3.75%) CakePHP
6 3 (3.75%) Django
6 3 (3.75%) Laravel
6 3 (3.75%) pytest
6 3 (3.75%) XML
6 3 (3.75%) YAML
7 2 (2.50%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 2 (2.50%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (2.50%) LAMP
7 2 (2.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.75%) Management Information System
1 7 (8.75%) Onboarding
2 6 (7.50%) Driving Licence
2 6 (7.50%) Renewable Energy
3 5 (6.25%) Photovoltaics
3 5 (6.25%) SCADA
4 4 (5.00%) Sports Betting
5 3 (3.75%) Derivative
5 3 (3.75%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.75%) Robotics
5 3 (3.75%) Solar Energy
6 2 (2.50%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (2.50%) Equities
6 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.50%) FPGA
6 2 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.25%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Linux
1 3 (3.75%) Unix
1 3 (3.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 25 (31.25%) DevOps
3 23 (28.75%) Non-Functional Testing
3 23 (28.75%) Software Testing
4 18 (22.50%) Scrum
5 17 (21.25%) Agile
6 15 (18.75%) Test Scripting
7 13 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (16.25%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (15.00%) API Testing
9 11 (13.75%) Manual Testing
9 11 (13.75%) Project Management
9 11 (13.75%) Release Management
9 11 (13.75%) Test Management
9 11 (13.75%) Test Strategy
10 10 (12.50%) Computer Science
10 10 (12.50%) Integration Testing
11 9 (11.25%) Regression Testing
11 9 (11.25%) Validation
12 8 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (22.50%) Python
2 13 (16.25%) JavaScript
2 13 (16.25%) SQL
3 9 (11.25%) C#
4 5 (6.25%) Java
5 3 (3.75%) Bash
5 3 (3.75%) C++
5 3 (3.75%) PHP
6 2 (2.50%) C
6 2 (2.50%) Perl
6 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.25%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.25%) Tcl
7 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (25.00%) Degree
2 14 (17.50%) Security Cleared
3 10 (12.50%) ISTQB
4 9 (11.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (11.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.50%) CISSP
7 2 (2.50%) CITP
7 2 (2.50%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.25%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (31.25%) QA
2 7 (8.75%) NCSC
3 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.25%) GMP
4 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (13.75%) Kubernetes
1 11 (13.75%) Terraform
2 7 (8.75%) Ansible
3 2 (2.50%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.00%) Databricks
3 3 (3.75%) Bloomberg
3 3 (3.75%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.50%) Charles River
4 2 (2.50%) SAP
4 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.25%) Cognos
5 1 (1.25%) Concur
5 1 (1.25%) EMC
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle
5 1 (1.25%) UiPath