Functional Testing Job Trends in Swansea

Functional Testing
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring Functional Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 0.59% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £46,874 - -
25th Percentile £49,686 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,486 - -
75th Percentile £68,401 - -
90th Percentile £73,081 - -
West Wales median annual salary £57,486 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 235 34 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 69.32% 77.27% 80.00%
Number of salaries quoted 157 27 128
10th Percentile £31,400 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £37,733 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.76% -24.53% +17.65%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,762 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,241 £59,857 £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £50,000 £37,733 £45,000
% change year-on-year +32.51% -16.15% +5.88%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Functional Testing job vacancy trend in Swansea

Functional Testing
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Functional Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Salary Histogram in Swansea

Salary distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in Swansea over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Functional Testing in Swansea

Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) QA