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 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 557 690 593
Rank change year-on-year +133 -97 -56
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 23 85 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.11% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.14% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 14 73 101
10th Percentile £33,850 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,313 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile - £60,741 £67,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +50.00% -13.04% -

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 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%

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 29 May 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 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
West Midlands +43 14 £75,000 +29.39% 4
Midlands +42 14 £75,000 +52.04% 5
North of England +31 5 £37,375 -25.25% 13
North West -1 4 £45,000 - 5
Scotland +123 2 - - 2
South East +80 2 £49,250 +3.68% 21
Yorkshire +54 1 £29,750 -40.50% 7
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 1 (4.35%) CICS
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (30.43%) GitHub
2 7 (30.43%) GitHub Actions
2 7 (30.43%) SaaS
3 6 (26.09%) IaaS
3 6 (26.09%) PaaS
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.70%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) 3GPP
1 4 (17.39%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Selenium
2 6 (26.09%) SonarQube
3 4 (17.39%) WebDriver
4 3 (13.04%) Appium
5 2 (8.70%) JIRA
5 2 (8.70%) JMeter
5 2 (8.70%) Postman
6 1 (4.35%) TestComplete
General
1 8 (34.78%) Public Sector
2 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
4 3 (13.04%) Law
5 2 (8.70%) Finance
5 2 (8.70%) Military
6 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (26.09%) Tester
2 4 (17.39%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Software Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Software Tester
3 3 (13.04%) Automation Tester
4 2 (8.70%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Lead
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) ARM Templates
1 6 (26.09%) Azure Blueprints
2 5 (21.74%) Playwright
3 3 (13.04%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Management Information System
1 6 (26.09%) Onboarding
2 3 (13.04%) Low-Code
2 3 (13.04%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.35%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Test Automation
2 12 (52.17%) Functional Testing
3 10 (43.48%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (39.13%) DevOps
5 8 (34.78%) Project Management
6 7 (30.43%) Agile
6 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
6 7 (30.43%) Software Testing
7 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
7 6 (26.09%) Continuous Delivery
7 6 (26.09%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (26.09%) DevSecOps
7 6 (26.09%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 6 (26.09%) Manual Testing
7 6 (26.09%) Mentoring
7 6 (26.09%) Performance Analysis
7 6 (26.09%) Release Management
7 6 (26.09%) Static Application Security Testing
8 5 (21.74%) SDLC
8 5 (21.74%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
3 4 (17.39%) C#
4 3 (13.04%) Java
4 3 (13.04%) SQL
5 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.35%) COBOL
6 1 (4.35%) JCL
6 1 (4.35%) REXX
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 6 (26.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (8.70%) DBS Check
3 2 (8.70%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (43.48%) NCSC
2 7 (30.43%) QA
3 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
4 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Ansible
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
1 6 (26.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Siebel
2 1 (4.35%) UiPath