Functional Testing Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Functional Testing
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Functional Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - 83
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 3 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.26% - 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% - 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 -
% change year-on-year -41.90% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 859 283 907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 73.23% 93.71% 88.49%
Number of salaries quoted 690 205 751
10th Percentile £29,925 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,603
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,650 £77,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% -4.76%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Functional Testing job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Functional Testing
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Functional Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
2 2 (66.67%) PowerApps
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata
3 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Core
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (66.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Low-Code
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) SOLID
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Cloudera
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk