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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 577 495
Rank change year-on-year +53 -82 -181
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 56 202 279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.27% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.33% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 40 118 129
10th Percentile £35,450 £33,552 £38,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,313 £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 £60,000 £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 36,163 61,036 55,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.74% 82.48% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17,188 42,006 28,807
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,336 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £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 £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 29 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 29 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 +16 15 £45,000 -10.00% 28
North West -7 13 £45,000 -5.26% 15
Midlands +21 12 £75,000 +50.00% 26
East of England +28 10 £53,000 -15.20% 25
West Midlands +20 10 £75,000 +50.00% 16
South East +41 8 £34,000 -33.00% 54
South West +114 6 £57,143 +42.86% 25
Scotland +119 3 - - 8
East Midlands +31 2 £55,000 +11.50% 10
North East +46 1 £52,500 - 8
Yorkshire +44 1 £29,750 -40.50% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 - 2
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 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.79%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.79%) Magento
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.79%) SAP APO
2 1 (1.79%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 16 (28.57%) Azure
1 16 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 13 (23.21%) AWS
3 10 (17.86%) GitHub
4 9 (16.07%) SaaS
5 6 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (10.71%) IaaS
5 6 (10.71%) PaaS
6 4 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) Ethernet
1 2 (3.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.79%) SpaceWire
2 1 (1.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.86%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.93%) MySQL
3 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) SonarQube
2 5 (8.93%) Git
2 5 (8.93%) Selenium
3 4 (7.14%) JIRA
4 3 (5.36%) Appium
4 3 (5.36%) LabVIEW
4 3 (5.36%) PHPUnit
4 3 (5.36%) WebDriver
5 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.79%) Postman
6 1 (1.79%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.79%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.79%) TestComplete
General
1 16 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.64%) Finance
3 7 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.71%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.14%) Electronics
5 4 (7.14%) Games
5 4 (7.14%) Law
6 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.57%) Billing
7 2 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Military
7 2 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.57%) Retail
7 2 (3.57%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.79%) Banking
8 1 (1.79%) Legal
8 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (26.79%) Developer
2 13 (23.21%) Senior
3 10 (17.86%) Analyst
3 10 (17.86%) Software Developer
4 7 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 7 (12.50%) .NET Software Developer
5 6 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Test Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Tester
6 5 (8.93%) Lead
7 4 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (7.14%) Software Tester
8 3 (5.36%) Business Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Operations Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Operations Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Test Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.43%) .NET
2 7 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 7 (12.50%) CSS
2 7 (12.50%) HTML
3 6 (10.71%) ARM Templates
3 6 (10.71%) Azure Blueprints
4 5 (8.93%) Node.js
4 5 (8.93%) React
5 4 (7.14%) Playwright
5 4 (7.14%) Redux
6 3 (5.36%) CakePHP
6 3 (5.36%) Laravel
7 2 (3.57%) Django
7 2 (3.57%) LAMP
7 2 (3.57%) XML
8 1 (1.79%) Kafka
8 1 (1.79%) RESTful
8 1 (1.79%) Spring
8 1 (1.79%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Management Information System
1 6 (10.71%) Onboarding
2 4 (7.14%) Sports Betting
3 3 (5.36%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.57%) Analogue Electronics
4 2 (3.57%) Biopharmaceutical
4 2 (3.57%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.57%) Robotics
5 1 (1.79%) BBC
5 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.79%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.79%) EPoS
5 1 (1.79%) Life Science
5 1 (1.79%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.79%) Photovoltaics
5 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.79%) SCADA
5 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Unix
2 2 (3.57%) Linux
2 2 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (33.93%) Test Automation
2 17 (30.36%) DevOps
3 13 (23.21%) Software Testing
4 12 (21.43%) Non-Functional Testing
4 12 (21.43%) Scrum
5 11 (19.64%) Software Engineering
6 10 (17.86%) Agile
6 10 (17.86%) Project Management
6 10 (17.86%) Test Strategy
7 9 (16.07%) Computer Science
7 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (16.07%) Test Scripting
7 9 (16.07%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (14.29%) Regression Testing
8 8 (14.29%) Test Management
8 8 (14.29%) Validation
9 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 7 (12.50%) Release Management
9 7 (12.50%) System Testing
10 6 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 9 (16.07%) C#
2 9 (16.07%) Python
3 7 (12.50%) SQL
4 6 (10.71%) Java
5 3 (5.36%) Bash
5 3 (5.36%) PHP
5 3 (5.36%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.57%) Perl
6 2 (3.57%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.57%) X++
7 1 (1.79%) C
7 1 (1.79%) Tcl
7 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (23.21%) Degree
1 13 (23.21%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
5 4 (7.14%) ISTQB
6 2 (3.57%) CCA
6 2 (3.57%) CITP
6 2 (3.57%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.79%) ISEB
7 1 (1.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (28.57%) QA
2 6 (10.71%) NCSC
3 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.79%) GMP
4 1 (1.79%) SLA
4 1 (1.79%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 7 (12.50%) Terraform
2 6 (10.71%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.36%) Bloomberg
2 3 (5.36%) Mentor Graphics
3 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.57%) SAP
3 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.79%) Cognos
4 1 (1.79%) Concur
4 1 (1.79%) DocuSign
4 1 (1.79%) EMC
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle
4 1 (1.79%) UiPath