Functional Testing Jobs in Kent

Functional Testing
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 - 98
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 4 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.53% - 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% - 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £22,500 - -
25th Percentile £25,500 - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.57%
75th Percentile £31,500 - £52,500
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £31,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -36.73% -2.00% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 653 1,226 1,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 87.07% 82.28% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 313 898 540
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £47,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,800
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
South East median annual salary £55,678 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.36% -9.09% -

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in Kent

Functional Testing
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Functional Testing in Kent

Functional Testing
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the Kent region over the 6 months to 4 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
Snodland - 2 £31,000 -
Maidstone - 1 - - 1
Functional Testing
South East

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Tester
2 2 (50.00%) QA Tester
3 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) CakePHP
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) Laravel
2 2 (50.00%) LAMP
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
2 3 (75.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (75.00%) System Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (50.00%) OOP
3 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Design for Test
4 1 (25.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft