Functional Testing Jobs in England

Functional Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 502 352
Rank change year-on-year -76 -150 +100
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 265 493 1,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.55% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.57% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 178 272 460
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,250 £36,125
25th Percentile £42,313 £44,928 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £61,963 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £70,750 £92,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,894 86,501 127,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.58% 95.63% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 53,677 51,101 73,310
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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 7 May 2024.

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 7 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
South East +25 65 £49,000 -2.00% 13
London -45 61 £52,500 -8.70% 21
Midlands +26 53 £50,000 -11.11% 10
West Midlands +57 48 £50,000 - 5
North of England +16 48 £47,500 -17.39% 11
North West +20 31 £47,500 -17.39% 7
East of England -21 23 £62,500 +48.81% 11
Yorkshire +53 16 £50,000 -23.08% 3
South West -44 13 £34,579 -44.67% 8
East Midlands -31 5 £49,329 -29.53% 5
North East -9 1 - - 1
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 6 (2.26%) Confluence
2 3 (1.13%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.13%) WordPress
3 1 (0.38%) Appian
3 1 (0.38%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.38%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 84 (31.70%) Azure
2 64 (24.15%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (15.09%) IBM Cloud
4 28 (10.57%) AWS
5 14 (5.28%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (3.40%) GitHub
6 9 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (3.40%) PaaS
6 9 (3.40%) SaaS
7 8 (3.02%) IaaS
8 6 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.13%) Contentful
10 2 (0.75%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.75%) Serverless
11 1 (0.38%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.38%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.02%) Wireless
2 5 (1.89%) Internet
3 4 (1.51%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.51%) RS-232
3 4 (1.51%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.38%) HTTP
4 1 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.15%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.40%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.89%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.89%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.51%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.13%) Big Data
7 2 (0.75%) Power BI
8 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.38%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.38%) MS Access
8 1 (0.38%) MySQL
8 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (14.34%) JIRA
2 27 (10.19%) Selenium
3 17 (6.42%) Cucumber
4 16 (6.04%) Postman
5 13 (4.91%) JMeter
6 11 (4.15%) SoapUI
7 10 (3.77%) LoadRunner
7 10 (3.77%) MSTest
7 10 (3.77%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (3.40%) Git
9 8 (3.02%) SonarQube
10 6 (2.26%) Subversion
11 5 (1.89%) Appium
11 5 (1.89%) HP UFT
12 4 (1.51%) JUnit
12 4 (1.51%) TestNG
13 3 (1.13%) REST Assured
13 3 (1.13%) WebDriver
14 2 (0.75%) SpecFlow
14 2 (0.75%) TestRail
General
1 58 (21.89%) Social Skills
2 54 (20.38%) Public Sector
3 45 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.30%) Finance
5 17 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (6.04%) Police
7 13 (4.91%) Electronics
7 13 (4.91%) Legal
7 13 (4.91%) Marketing
8 10 (3.77%) Manufacturing
8 10 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.40%) Retail
10 6 (2.26%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.89%) Banking
12 4 (1.51%) Law
13 3 (1.13%) Local Government
13 3 (1.13%) Publishing
14 2 (0.75%) Back Office
14 2 (0.75%) Mandarin Language
14 2 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 61 (23.02%) Analyst
2 53 (20.00%) Senior
3 51 (19.25%) Test Analyst
4 32 (12.08%) Developer
5 18 (6.79%) Senior Developer
6 17 (6.42%) Test Engineer
7 16 (6.04%) .NET Developer
8 14 (5.28%) Tester
9 12 (4.53%) QA Engineer
9 12 (4.53%) Test Manager
10 8 (3.02%) Senior .NET Developer
10 8 (3.02%) Software Developer
10 8 (3.02%) Software Engineer
11 7 (2.64%) Lead
11 7 (2.64%) Senior Manager
11 7 (2.64%) Senior Software Developer
12 6 (2.26%) Product Manager
12 6 (2.26%) QA Tester
12 6 (2.26%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (2.26%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.08%) .NET
2 16 (6.04%) Web Services
3 12 (4.53%) ASP.NET Web API
3 12 (4.53%) REST
4 11 (4.15%) Kafka
4 11 (4.15%) MSMQ
4 11 (4.15%) RabbitMQ
4 11 (4.15%) WCF
5 10 (3.77%) React
6 9 (3.40%) Spring
6 9 (3.40%) Spring Boot
7 8 (3.02%) ARM Templates
7 8 (3.02%) Azure Blueprints
8 7 (2.64%) ASP.NET
9 6 (2.26%) SOAP
10 5 (1.89%) CSS
10 5 (1.89%) HTML
10 5 (1.89%) JSON
10 5 (1.89%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 5 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.23%) Product Ownership
2 41 (15.47%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (15.09%) Blockchain
3 40 (15.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 28 (10.57%) Management Information System
5 19 (7.17%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (6.79%) Algorithms
6 18 (6.79%) Data Structures
7 17 (6.42%) Mobile App
8 15 (5.66%) Video\Live Streaming
9 9 (3.40%) Graphic Design
9 9 (3.40%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.64%) IoT
11 6 (2.26%) Animation
11 6 (2.26%) BBC
11 6 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.51%) CCTV
12 4 (1.51%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.51%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 44 (16.60%) Linux
2 40 (15.09%) Alpine Linux
2 40 (15.09%) CentOS
2 40 (15.09%) Debian
3 5 (1.89%) Windows
4 1 (0.38%) Android
4 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (44.15%) Agile
2 116 (43.77%) Software Testing
3 110 (41.51%) Test Automation
4 95 (35.85%) DevOps
5 69 (26.04%) Non-Functional Testing
6 63 (23.77%) User Acceptance Testing
7 60 (22.64%) CI/CD
7 60 (22.64%) Test Strategy
8 58 (21.89%) Regression Testing
9 56 (21.13%) Scrum
10 51 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (17.36%) Performance Testing
12 43 (16.23%) Artificial Intelligence
13 42 (15.85%) Technology Transformation
14 41 (15.47%) Co-Creation
15 40 (15.09%) Computer Science
15 40 (15.09%) Data Science
15 40 (15.09%) Separation of Concerns
15 40 (15.09%) Task Automation
16 39 (14.72%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 51 (19.25%) C#
2 31 (11.70%) Python
2 31 (11.70%) SQL
3 28 (10.57%) Java
4 16 (6.04%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.40%) C
6 6 (2.26%) PHP
7 5 (1.89%) Embedded C
7 5 (1.89%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.51%) C++
8 4 (1.51%) VB
9 3 (1.13%) Scala
9 3 (1.13%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.38%) Go
10 1 (0.38%) Lua
10 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.38%) Ruby
10 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 61 (23.02%) Degree
2 41 (15.47%) Azure Certification
3 40 (15.09%) MCSA
3 40 (15.09%) MCSE
3 40 (15.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 28 (10.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (8.30%) Security Cleared
6 20 (7.55%) ISTQB
7 12 (4.53%) ISEB
8 11 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (4.15%) SC Cleared
9 10 (3.77%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.26%) CSPO
10 6 (2.26%) CTC Cleared
10 6 (2.26%) IIBA
10 6 (2.26%) Numerate Degree
11 5 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.51%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (1.51%) PMI Certification
13 3 (1.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (23.40%) QA
2 9 (3.40%) GDPR
3 8 (3.02%) NCSC
4 6 (2.26%) PMO
5 3 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.75%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.75%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 57 (21.51%) Docker
2 15 (5.66%) Firmware
3 12 (4.53%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.38%) OpenSIPS
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (20.38%) Kubernetes
2 48 (18.11%) Terraform
3 8 (3.02%) Ansible
4 1 (0.38%) Grafana
4 1 (0.38%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.38%) Kibana
4 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (15.47%) IBM
1 41 (15.47%) Red Hat
2 31 (11.70%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.28%) Salesforce
4 11 (4.15%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.26%) Google
6 4 (1.51%) Databricks
7 3 (1.13%) Adobe
8 2 (0.75%) Oracle
8 2 (0.75%) Splunk
9 1 (0.38%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.38%) HP
9 1 (0.38%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.38%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.38%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.38%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.38%) VMware