Functional Testing Jobs in the North West

Functional Testing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 263 268
Rank change year-on-year -16 +5 -26
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 14 28 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.34% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 8 23 20
10th Percentile - £23,800 £45,875
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -17.39% +15.00%
75th Percentile £58,438 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £61,250 - -
England median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -9.09% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,621 8,207 7,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.95% 82.31% 95.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,953 6,214 3,885
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,400
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the North West

Functional Testing
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Functional Testing in the North West

Functional Testing
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Functional Testing in the North West

Functional Testing
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the North West region over the 6 months to 21 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
Manchester +47 9 £50,000 - 11
Lancashire - 3 £55,000 - 5
Merseyside +39 2 £40,000 +2.56% 3
Functional Testing
England

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP APO
1 1 (7.14%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
1 1 (7.14%) Selenium
1 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Games
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 2 (14.29%) Military
4 2 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (21.43%) Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Business Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Operations Business Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Business Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Operations Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Software Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
5 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) CSS
1 4 (28.57%) HTML
1 4 (28.57%) Node.js
1 4 (28.57%) React
1 4 (28.57%) Redux
2 1 (7.14%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Sports Betting
2 2 (14.29%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (7.14%) Life Science
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Agile
1 5 (35.71%) Scrum
1 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
2 4 (28.57%) Front End Development
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (21.43%) SDLC
3 3 (21.43%) Test Management
3 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
3 3 (21.43%) User Experience
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (14.29%) Data Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 2 (14.29%) Data Management
4 2 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Defect Management
4 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting
4 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) DBS Check
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) GMP
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Bloomberg
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) SAP