Non-Functional Testing Jobs in England

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Non-Functional Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 642 720 576
Rank change year-on-year +78 -144 +41
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 49 123 368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.100% 0.14% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.17% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 35 106 221
10th Percentile £38,200 £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £46,875 £43,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £63,591 £71,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £81,250 £86,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £49,329 £57,500
% change year-on-year +52.04% -14.21% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,314 73,328 84,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.13% 85.41% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,693 53,833 50,206
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,000 £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%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in England

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Non-Functional Testing in England

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Non-Functional Testing in England

Non-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 Non-Functional Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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 +88 26 £85,000 +34.68% 27
Midlands +45 15 £75,000 +52.04% 4
West Midlands +43 15 £75,000 +76.47% 3
North of England +40 6 £45,000 -10.00% 14
North West 0 5 £47,500 +5.56% 5
South East +82 2 £49,250 +3.68% 20
Yorkshire +64 1 £29,750 -40.50% 7
Non-Functional Testing
UK

Non-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 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.90%) Azure
2 18 (36.73%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (26.53%) GitHub
4 10 (20.41%) AWS
4 10 (20.41%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (18.37%) SaaS
6 7 (14.29%) IaaS
6 7 (14.29%) PaaS
7 5 (10.20%) Power Platform
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (6.12%) Power Automate
8 3 (6.12%) PowerApps
9 2 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (4.08%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (2.04%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.04%) GCP
10 1 (2.04%) Sentry
10 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) 3GPP
1 4 (8.16%) 5G
2 3 (6.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.12%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.08%) Power BI
4 1 (2.04%) MySQL
4 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (30.61%) Selenium
2 11 (22.45%) Postman
3 9 (18.37%) JMeter
4 7 (14.29%) SonarQube
5 5 (10.20%) Cypress.io
6 4 (8.16%) Git
6 4 (8.16%) Jenkins
6 4 (8.16%) SpecFlow
6 4 (8.16%) WebDriver
7 3 (6.12%) Appium
7 3 (6.12%) JIRA
7 3 (6.12%) Mocha
7 3 (6.12%) MSTest
7 3 (6.12%) NUnit
7 3 (6.12%) SoapUI
8 2 (4.08%) LoadRunner
8 2 (4.08%) NeoLoad
8 2 (4.08%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (2.04%) Gatling
9 1 (2.04%) Locust
General
1 13 (26.53%) Finance
1 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.45%) Public Sector
3 9 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.16%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.12%) Law
6 2 (4.08%) Military
7 1 (2.04%) Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (20.41%) Tester
2 9 (18.37%) Developer
3 7 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) Test Manager
4 6 (12.24%) Senior
5 5 (10.20%) Lead
5 5 (10.20%) Software Developer
5 5 (10.20%) Software Tester
6 4 (8.16%) .NET Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Python Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) QA Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Senior .NET Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Test Leader
7 3 (6.12%) Automation Tester
7 3 (6.12%) QA Leader
8 2 (4.08%) Programme Test Manager
8 2 (4.08%) QA Manager
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Manager
8 2 (4.08%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.45%) Playwright
2 8 (16.33%) .NET
2 8 (16.33%) XML
3 7 (14.29%) ARM Templates
3 7 (14.29%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (8.16%) .NET Framework
4 4 (8.16%) AngularJS
4 4 (8.16%) ASP.NET
4 4 (8.16%) ASP.NET MVC
4 4 (8.16%) CSS
4 4 (8.16%) Entity Framework
4 4 (8.16%) HTML
4 4 (8.16%) JSON
4 4 (8.16%) LINQ
5 3 (6.12%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (6.12%) Jest
5 3 (6.12%) pytest
5 3 (6.12%) Swagger
5 3 (6.12%) Web Services
5 3 (6.12%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 7 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 5 (10.20%) Low-Code
3 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.12%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.08%) Derivative
5 2 (4.08%) Equities
5 2 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (4.08%) FPGA
6 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.04%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Windows
2 1 (2.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (67.35%) Test Automation
2 23 (46.94%) Functional Testing
3 22 (44.90%) DevOps
4 19 (38.78%) Agile
5 16 (32.65%) Software Testing
6 14 (28.57%) CI/CD
7 13 (26.53%) Deployment Automation
7 13 (26.53%) Test Scripting
8 12 (24.49%) Manual Testing
8 12 (24.49%) Test Strategy
9 11 (22.45%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (22.45%) Security Testing
10 10 (20.41%) Containerisation
10 10 (20.41%) Mentoring
11 9 (18.37%) Microservices
11 9 (18.37%) Project Management
12 8 (16.33%) Continuous Delivery
12 8 (16.33%) Regression Testing
12 8 (16.33%) Scrum
12 8 (16.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.73%) Python
2 13 (26.53%) C#
3 11 (22.45%) JavaScript
4 8 (16.33%) SQL
5 5 (10.20%) Java
5 5 (10.20%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.16%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.08%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (24.49%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (16.33%) ISTQB
3 7 (14.29%) Degree
4 6 (12.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.08%) DBS Check
7 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (34.69%) QA
2 11 (22.45%) NCSC
3 5 (10.20%) Accessibility
4 3 (6.12%) Data Quality
4 3 (6.12%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (20.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (22.45%) Kubernetes
2 8 (16.33%) Terraform
3 7 (14.29%) Ansible
4 1 (2.04%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.08%) Charles River
3 1 (2.04%) Databricks
3 1 (2.04%) FIS
3 1 (2.04%) Google
3 1 (2.04%) Siebel
3 1 (2.04%) Splunk
3 1 (2.04%) UiPath
3 1 (2.04%) Workday