Functional Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 563 488
Rank change year-on-year +42 -75 -177
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 58 203 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.27% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.33% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 41 119 130
10th Percentile £30,500 £33,631 £38,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% -9.09% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Functional Testing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
North of England +11 16 £45,000 -10.00% 26
North West -11 14 £45,000 -5.26% 12
Midlands +25 12 £75,000 +50.00% 25
West Midlands +20 11 £75,000 +50.00% 16
East of England +37 10 £53,000 -15.20% 22
South East +20 8 £34,000 -33.00% 37
South West +109 6 £57,143 +42.86% 29
Scotland +118 4 - - 8
North East +50 1 £52,500 - 8
Yorkshire +42 1 £29,750 -40.50% 6
East Midlands +39 1 £55,000 +11.50% 9
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3
Functional Testing
UK

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) nginx
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.72%) Magento
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.72%) SAP APO
2 1 (1.72%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 16 (27.59%) Azure
1 16 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
2 14 (24.14%) AWS
3 10 (17.24%) GitHub
4 9 (15.52%) SaaS
5 6 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (10.34%) IaaS
5 6 (10.34%) PaaS
6 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.17%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.72%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.72%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Ethernet
1 1 (1.72%) SpaceWire
1 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.52%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.62%) MySQL
3 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) SonarQube
2 5 (8.62%) Git
2 5 (8.62%) JIRA
2 5 (8.62%) Selenium
3 3 (5.17%) Appium
3 3 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.17%) LabVIEW
3 3 (5.17%) PHPUnit
3 3 (5.17%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.72%) Postman
4 1 (1.72%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.72%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.72%) TestComplete
General
1 16 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.41%) Finance
3 7 (12.07%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.34%) Manufacturing
5 5 (8.62%) Electronics
5 5 (8.62%) Law
6 4 (6.90%) Games
6 4 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.17%) Retail
8 2 (3.45%) Banking
8 2 (3.45%) Billing
8 2 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.45%) Military
8 2 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.45%) Private Banking
8 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.72%) Legal
9 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (27.59%) Developer
2 15 (25.86%) Senior
3 10 (17.24%) Analyst
3 10 (17.24%) Software Developer
4 7 (12.07%) .NET Developer
4 7 (12.07%) .NET Software Developer
5 6 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Lead
5 6 (10.34%) Test Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Tester
6 5 (8.62%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (6.90%) Software Tester
8 3 (5.17%) Development Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.17%) Operations Business Analyst
8 3 (5.17%) Senior Development Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Senior Operations Analyst
8 3 (5.17%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.69%) .NET
2 7 (12.07%) .NET Framework
2 7 (12.07%) CSS
2 7 (12.07%) HTML
3 6 (10.34%) ARM Templates
3 6 (10.34%) Azure Blueprints
4 5 (8.62%) Node.js
4 5 (8.62%) React
5 4 (6.90%) Laravel
5 4 (6.90%) Playwright
5 4 (6.90%) Redux
6 3 (5.17%) CakePHP
6 3 (5.17%) LAMP
7 2 (3.45%) Kafka
7 2 (3.45%) RESTful
7 2 (3.45%) Spring
7 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.45%) Vue
8 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.72%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Management Information System
1 6 (10.34%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.90%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.90%) Sports Betting
3 2 (3.45%) Analogue Electronics
3 2 (3.45%) Biopharmaceutical
3 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.45%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (3.45%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.72%) BBC
4 1 (1.72%) EPoS
4 1 (1.72%) Life Science
4 1 (1.72%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.72%) Photovoltaics
4 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.72%) Robotics
4 1 (1.72%) SCADA
4 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Unix
2 3 (5.17%) Linux
3 2 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (34.48%) Test Automation
2 17 (29.31%) DevOps
3 13 (22.41%) Scrum
4 12 (20.69%) Agile
4 12 (20.69%) Non-Functional Testing
4 12 (20.69%) Software Engineering
4 12 (20.69%) Software Testing
5 11 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (18.97%) Test Strategy
6 10 (17.24%) Computer Science
6 10 (17.24%) Project Management
7 9 (15.52%) Test Scripting
7 9 (15.52%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (13.79%) Mentoring
8 8 (13.79%) Regression Testing
8 8 (13.79%) Test Management
8 8 (13.79%) Validation
9 7 (12.07%) Release Management
9 7 (12.07%) System Testing
10 6 (10.34%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.69%) JavaScript
2 8 (13.79%) C#
2 8 (13.79%) Python
2 8 (13.79%) SQL
3 7 (12.07%) Java
4 4 (6.90%) PHP
5 3 (5.17%) Bash
5 3 (5.17%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.45%) Perl
6 2 (3.45%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.45%) X++
7 1 (1.72%) C
7 1 (1.72%) Tcl
7 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (22.41%) Degree
1 13 (22.41%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.79%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (12.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (8.62%) SC Cleared
5 4 (6.90%) ISTQB
6 2 (3.45%) CCA
6 2 (3.45%) CITP
6 2 (3.45%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.72%) HNC
7 1 (1.72%) HND
7 1 (1.72%) ISEB
7 1 (1.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (27.59%) QA
2 6 (10.34%) NCSC
3 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.72%) GDPR
4 1 (1.72%) GMP
4 1 (1.72%) SLA
4 1 (1.72%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (12.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.79%) Kubernetes
1 8 (13.79%) Terraform
2 6 (10.34%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.17%) Bloomberg
2 3 (5.17%) Mentor Graphics
3 2 (3.45%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.45%) SAP
3 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.72%) Cognos
4 1 (1.72%) Concur
4 1 (1.72%) DocuSign
4 1 (1.72%) EMC
4 1 (1.72%) Google
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle
4 1 (1.72%) PayPal
4 1 (1.72%) UiPath