Non-Functional Testing Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Non-Functional Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 - 75
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.12% - 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £53,038
25th Percentile £51,250 - £53,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.14%
75th Percentile £53,750 - £62,870
90th Percentile - - £64,148
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £52,500 - £57,965
% change year-on-year - - +2.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 630 354 798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 77.87% 94.91% 87.79%
Number of salaries quoted 499 197 673
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,170
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £48,921 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.16% - -9.09%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Non-Functional Testing job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

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

Non-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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript