Non-Functional Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Non-Functional Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 625 538
Rank change year-on-year +59 -87 -17
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 29 67 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.066% 0.11% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% 0.14% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 22 60 84
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £36,425
25th Percentile £40,313 £42,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,750 £60,741 £72,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £57,965 £57,500
% change year-on-year -18.05% +0.81% +0.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Non-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 38,359 48,707 44,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 87.08% 79.20% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 19,993 30,288 26,497
10th Percentile £25,625 £29,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,850
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Non-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 Non-Functional Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Midlands +32 11 £42,500 -29.17% 13
West Midlands +30 11 £42,500 -29.17% 11
South East +32 8 £42,500 -10.53% 5
North of England +3 6 £37,375 -23.33% 7
North West -4 5 £45,000 - 3
Scotland +89 3 £70,000 +40.00% 2
Yorkshire +9 1 £29,750 -40.50% 2
East of England - 1 £75,000 - 5
Non-Functional Testing
UK

Non-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 2 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.45%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) AWS
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.34%) GitHub
3 3 (10.34%) SaaS
4 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (6.90%) IaaS
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.90%) PaaS
4 2 (6.90%) Tricentis Tosca
5 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.45%) DB2
1 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (62.07%) Selenium
2 12 (41.38%) JIRA
2 12 (41.38%) Postman
2 12 (41.38%) WebDriver
3 8 (27.59%) SoapUI
4 7 (24.14%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (13.79%) Appium
6 3 (10.34%) Cypress.io
6 3 (10.34%) JMeter
7 2 (6.90%) Git
7 2 (6.90%) SonarQube
7 2 (6.90%) TestComplete
8 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
8 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
8 1 (3.45%) Gatling
8 1 (3.45%) GitLab
8 1 (3.45%) JUnit
8 1 (3.45%) REST Assured
8 1 (3.45%) TestRail
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Law
4 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.90%) Legal
5 2 (6.90%) Military
6 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Tester
2 7 (24.14%) Software Tester
3 6 (20.69%) Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) Test Analyst
4 5 (17.24%) Lead
4 5 (17.24%) Senior
4 5 (17.24%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (17.24%) Senior Test Analyst
5 4 (13.79%) Test Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Automation Tester
7 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Lead Test Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) QA Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Test Leader
8 1 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Junior
8 1 (3.45%) Junior Tester
8 1 (3.45%) Performance Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) .NET
1 10 (34.48%) Playwright
2 7 (24.14%) HTML
2 7 (24.14%) SOAP
3 2 (6.90%) ARM Templates
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (3.45%) Java EE
4 1 (3.45%) Spring
4 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.45%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (10.34%) Low-Code
2 3 (10.34%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.45%) IoT
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) Agile
2 18 (62.07%) Software Testing
3 17 (58.62%) Test Automation
4 15 (51.72%) Test Management
5 14 (48.28%) Test Scripting
6 13 (44.83%) API Testing
7 12 (41.38%) Mentoring
8 11 (37.93%) Functional Testing
8 11 (37.93%) Scrum
9 10 (34.48%) DevOps
10 8 (27.59%) Cross-Browser Testing
11 7 (24.14%) Regression Testing
12 6 (20.69%) Manual Testing
13 5 (17.24%) Performance Testing
13 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
14 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
14 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
14 4 (13.79%) Exploratory Testing
14 4 (13.79%) SDLC
14 4 (13.79%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) SQL
2 13 (44.83%) Java
3 11 (37.93%) C#
4 7 (24.14%) JavaScript
5 4 (13.79%) Python
5 4 (13.79%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.45%) COBOL
6 1 (3.45%) JCL
6 1 (3.45%) REXX
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) ISTQB
2 8 (27.59%) Degree
3 7 (24.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
5 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (6.90%) DBS Check
6 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (48.28%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Ansible
2 2 (6.90%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle
2 1 (3.45%) Siebel
2 1 (3.45%) Splunk
2 1 (3.45%) UiPath