HP UFT Job Trends in the UK excluding London

HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), formerly QuickTest Professional (QTP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring HP UFT skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 - 762
Rank change year-on-year - - -66
Permanent jobs citing HP UFT 5 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.007% - 0.006%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.20% - 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 - -
75th Percentile £43,750 - -
90th Percentile £47,500 - -
UK median annual salary £35,000 £55,000 -
% change year-on-year -36.36% - -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

HP UFT falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,453 2,548 6,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.63% 8.48% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,726 1,572 4,510
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,031 £44,188 £41,531
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%

HP UFT
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing HP UFT relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

HP UFT job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

HP UFT
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HP UFT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HP UFT

HP UFT
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing HP UFT in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 June 2026.

Salary histogram for HP UFT in the UK excluding London

HP UFT
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 HP UFT within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 June 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
Midlands - 3 £35,000 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £35,000 - 1
Scotland - 1 - -
South East - 1 - -
HP UFT
UK

HP UFT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Tricentis Tosca
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (80.00%) LoadRunner
1 4 (80.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) Burp Suite
2 3 (60.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (60.00%) Gatling
2 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) JMeter
2 3 (60.00%) Postman
2 3 (60.00%) REST Assured
2 3 (60.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (40.00%) JUnit
4 1 (20.00%) ClearCase
4 1 (20.00%) ClearQuest
4 1 (20.00%) Git
4 1 (20.00%) JIRA
4 1 (20.00%) TestNG
4 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) Swing
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Kali Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (80.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 3 (60.00%) OWASP
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (60.00%) SDET
3 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 3 (60.00%) Security Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Test Planning
3 3 (60.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Groovy
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
1 3 (60.00%) HP Fortify
2 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Veracode
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle