Non-Functional Testing Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Non-Functional Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 520 478
Rank change year-on-year +49 -42 +38
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 52 59 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.16% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.18% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 48 41 61
10th Percentile £32,675 £46,073 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,965 £54,169
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% +7.01% +5.69%
75th Percentile £62,813 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,424 £75,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,887 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +14.34% -

All Process & 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 33,518 32,882 27,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.71% 88.16% 90.59%
Number of salaries quoted 19,196 15,153 20,782
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.83%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,700 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Non-Functional Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Non-Functional Testing job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Non-Functional Testing.

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

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 30 December 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 30 December 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
South East +57 36 £42,500 -10.53% 15
Midlands +12 8 £57,500 -4.17% 3
West Midlands +8 6 £35,000 -41.67% 3
North West +16 3 £57,241 +17.42% 3
South West +14 3 £74,500 +35.45% 5
North of England +5 3 £57,241 +3.64% 4
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 -
Scotland +16 1 £70,000 +75.00% 5
Wales +2 1 - -
Non-Functional Testing
UK

Non-Functional Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.31%) AWS
2 8 (15.38%) Azure
3 2 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.92%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.92%) GitHub
4 1 (1.92%) IaaS
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.92%) PaaS
4 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.92%) BigQuery
1 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
1 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (76.92%) Selenium
2 37 (71.15%) JIRA
3 36 (69.23%) Postman
4 32 (61.54%) SoapUI
4 32 (61.54%) Team Foundation Server
5 31 (59.62%) WebDriver
6 4 (7.69%) Cypress.io
7 3 (5.77%) GitLab
8 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
8 2 (3.85%) Git
8 2 (3.85%) JMeter
8 2 (3.85%) REST Assured
8 2 (3.85%) TestRail
9 1 (1.92%) Appium
9 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.92%) Gatling
9 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
9 1 (1.92%) JUnit
9 1 (1.92%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (50.00%) Finance
2 18 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Legal
5 2 (3.85%) Law
5 2 (3.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 21 (40.38%) Analyst
1 21 (40.38%) Test Analyst
2 19 (36.54%) Senior
3 12 (23.08%) Lead
4 11 (21.15%) Senior Analyst
4 11 (21.15%) Senior Test Analyst
5 10 (19.23%) Tester
6 9 (17.31%) Test Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Test Leader
8 4 (7.69%) Senior Test Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Lead Test Analyst
9 3 (5.77%) QA Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Senior Tester
9 3 (5.77%) Software Tester
10 2 (3.85%) Lead Test Engineer
10 2 (3.85%) QA Leader
10 2 (3.85%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
11 1 (1.92%) Automation Engineer
11 1 (1.92%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (65.38%) .NET
2 32 (61.54%) HTML
2 32 (61.54%) SOAP
3 9 (17.31%) Playwright
4 2 (3.85%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.85%) React
5 1 (1.92%) Java EE
5 1 (1.92%) PySpark
5 1 (1.92%) RESTful
5 1 (1.92%) Spring
5 1 (1.92%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.92%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.92%) IoT
2 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Android
1 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (92.31%) Agile
2 39 (75.00%) Software Testing
3 38 (73.08%) Test Management
4 34 (65.38%) API Testing
5 32 (61.54%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 32 (61.54%) Mentoring
5 32 (61.54%) Scrum
5 32 (61.54%) Test Scripting
6 17 (32.69%) Test Automation
7 16 (30.77%) Logistics
8 12 (23.08%) CI/CD
9 10 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (17.31%) DevOps
11 8 (15.38%) Functional Testing
12 7 (13.46%) Manual Testing
13 5 (9.62%) BDD
13 5 (9.62%) Exploratory Testing
13 5 (9.62%) Open Source
14 4 (7.69%) Microservices
14 4 (7.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 41 (78.85%) Java
2 37 (71.15%) SQL
3 34 (65.38%) C#
4 6 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.77%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.92%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (61.54%) Degree
2 31 (59.62%) ISTQB
2 31 (59.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 6 (11.54%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (30.77%) QA
2 5 (9.62%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Grafana
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (5.77%) Oracle
2 1 (1.92%) Guidewire
2 1 (1.92%) Samsung
2 1 (1.92%) Splunk