Functional Tester Job Trends in the South West

Functional Tester
England > South West

As of 8 April 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Functional Tester salary in the South West.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Functional Tester 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.014% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
England median annual salary - - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 6,598 2,532 8,030
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 93.05% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,578 1,634 6,192
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,779 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,422 £64,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%

Functional Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Functional Tester' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Functional Tester job vacancy trend in the South West

Functional Tester
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for Functional Tester job vacancies in the South West.

Salary distribution trend for Functional Tester job vacancies in the South West

Functional Tester
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Tester within the South West region over the 6 months to 8 April 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
Dorset - 1 - -
Functional Tester
England

Functional Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 8 April 2026, Functional Tester job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Functional Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) logstash
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective

Functional Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) logstash