Functional Testing Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Functional Testing
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Functional Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 78 99
Rank change year-on-year +22 +21 +11
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 2 3 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.31% 0.43% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.48% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £33,750 £62,500 £53,750
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £32,500 £55,000 £60,750
% change year-on-year -40.91% -9.47% +35.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 501 630 791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.84% 90.91% 92.19%
Number of salaries quoted 345 286 480
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £78,750 £81,375
South West median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.15% +1.76% +5.31%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Functional Testing job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Functional Testing
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Functional Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Cheltenham - 1 £32,500 - 1
Functional Testing
South West

Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Junior
1 2 (100.00%) Junior Project Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Compliance Audit
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft