Functional Testing Job Trends in South Wales

Functional Testing
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Functional Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - 86
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.087% - 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 - £33,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.73%
75th Percentile £54,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median annual salary £52,000 - £33,000
% change year-on-year - - -37.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 818 324 938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 71.50% 87.57% 75.58%
Number of salaries quoted 539 206 744
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,625 £28,290
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,253 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,546 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% +10.62% +5.02%
75th Percentile £61,125 £67,406 £61,299
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,108 £72,433
Wales median annual salary £46,250 £50,447 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.32% +12.10% -

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Functional Testing job vacancy trend in South Wales

Functional Testing
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Functional Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 7 May 2026. 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
Newport - 1 £52,000 -
Functional Testing
Wales

Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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