Functional Testing Jobs in the Midlands

Functional Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 272 286
Rank change year-on-year +28 +14 0
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 18 53 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.25% 0.45% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.54% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 17 51 16
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £50,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -11.11% +45.16%
75th Percentile - £60,000 £72,500
90th Percentile - £62,200 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,481 9,735 8,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.77% 81.99% 96.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,669 7,163 4,522
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the Midlands

Functional Testing
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Functional Testing in the Midlands

Functional Testing
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Functional Testing in the Midlands

Functional Testing
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
West Midlands +24 13 £75,000 +50.00% 7
East Midlands +45 5 £55,000 +11.50% 3
Functional Testing
England

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) GitHub
2 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
2 8 (44.44%) IaaS
2 8 (44.44%) PaaS
2 8 (44.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Ethernet
1 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) MySQL
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) SonarQube
2 4 (22.22%) Selenium
3 3 (16.67%) Appium
3 3 (16.67%) WebDriver
4 1 (5.56%) TestComplete
General
1 8 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 3 (16.67%) Law
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Python Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Software Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Software Tester
3 3 (16.67%) Tester
4 2 (11.11%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Business Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) ARM Templates
1 8 (44.44%) Azure Blueprints
2 4 (22.22%) Django
2 4 (22.22%) XML
3 3 (16.67%) .NET
3 3 (16.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Management Information System
1 8 (44.44%) Onboarding
2 4 (22.22%) Robotics
3 3 (16.67%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
4 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 11 (61.11%) Non-Functional Testing
3 9 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
4 8 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 8 (44.44%) Continuous Delivery
4 8 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (44.44%) DevOps
4 8 (44.44%) DevSecOps
4 8 (44.44%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 8 (44.44%) Mentoring
4 8 (44.44%) Performance Analysis
4 8 (44.44%) Project Management
4 8 (44.44%) Release Management
4 8 (44.44%) Software Engineering
4 8 (44.44%) Software Testing
4 8 (44.44%) Static Application Security Testing
5 4 (22.22%) Exploratory Testing
5 4 (22.22%) Logistics
5 4 (22.22%) Regression Testing
5 4 (22.22%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) C#
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Java
2 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) BPSS Clearance
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) NCSC
2 4 (22.22%) QA
3 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Ansible
1 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 8 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
1 1 (5.56%) UiPath