Functional Testing Job Trends in Newport

Functional Testing
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newport requiring Functional Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Newport 0.44% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 - -
75th Percentile £54,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £52,000 - £33,000
% change year-on-year - - -37.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newport

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 Newport.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 160 37 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newport 70.48% 78.72% 78.13%
Number of salaries quoted 76 25 82
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,000 £26,275
25th Percentile £37,813 £42,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £52,500 £50,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.45% +11.44%
75th Percentile £71,438 £70,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £99,375 £70,840 £65,900
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +2.15%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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

Functional Testing job vacancy trend in Newport

Functional Testing
Salary Trend in Newport

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Functional Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) MSTest
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft