Non-Functional Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Non-Functional Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 679 591 521
Rank change year-on-year -88 -70 -64
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 92 173 354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.28% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.30% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 81 101 215
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £68,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Non-Functional Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,358 58,642 66,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.33% 95.62% 94.03%
Number of salaries quoted 41,086 30,131 41,542
10th Percentile £27,004 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 +18 34 £49,329 +9.62% 1
West Midlands +37 29 £42,500 -12.82% 1
South East +1 20 £47,500 -13.64% 5
North of England +15 18 £50,000 -9.09% 7
North West +16 11 £45,000 -18.18% 6
Wales +19 9 £45,000 -6.25%
South West -38 6 £57,500 +31.15% 1
Yorkshire +59 5 £50,000 -16.67% 1
East Midlands -27 5 £49,329 +31.54%
Scotland -73 4 £50,000 -16.67% 4
North East -14 2 £56,482 +6.07%
East of England +6 1 - -
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 3 (3.26%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.09%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 41 (44.57%) Azure
2 25 (27.17%) AWS
3 21 (22.83%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (15.22%) GitHub
4 14 (15.22%) SaaS
5 10 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (9.78%) PaaS
7 8 (8.70%) IaaS
8 3 (3.26%) Contentful
9 2 (2.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (1.09%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.09%) Firebase
10 1 (1.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.39%) Relational Database
2 10 (10.87%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.43%) DynamoDB
3 5 (5.43%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.26%) Big Data
6 2 (2.17%) MySQL
7 1 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.09%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.09%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (18.48%) Selenium
2 15 (16.30%) Postman
3 11 (11.96%) Cucumber
3 11 (11.96%) WebDriver
4 10 (10.87%) JIRA
5 9 (9.78%) NUnit
5 9 (9.78%) Visual Studio
6 8 (8.70%) SonarQube
7 7 (7.61%) Cypress.io
7 7 (7.61%) JMeter
8 6 (6.52%) GitLab
8 6 (6.52%) SoapUI
9 5 (5.43%) Jenkins
9 5 (5.43%) MSTest
10 4 (4.35%) Git
11 3 (3.26%) LoadRunner
11 3 (3.26%) SpecFlow
12 2 (2.17%) REST Assured
12 2 (2.17%) TeamCity
13 1 (1.09%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 12 (13.04%) Finance
4 10 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.43%) Banking
7 4 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.35%) Police
7 4 (4.35%) Retail
8 1 (1.09%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (23.91%) Senior
1 22 (23.91%) Test Engineer
2 17 (18.48%) Tester
3 15 (16.30%) Analyst
3 15 (16.30%) Senior Test Engineer
4 13 (14.13%) Test Analyst
5 11 (11.96%) QA Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) QA Tester
7 7 (7.61%) Lead
7 7 (7.61%) Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (5.43%) Agile Tester
9 5 (5.43%) QA Leader
9 5 (5.43%) Test Manager
10 4 (4.35%) Automation Test Analyst
10 4 (4.35%) Head of Test
10 4 (4.35%) Integration Tester
10 4 (4.35%) Senior Test Analyst
11 3 (3.26%) JavaScript Engineer
11 3 (3.26%) QA Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.57%) .NET
2 14 (15.22%) JSON
2 14 (15.22%) XML
3 12 (13.04%) .NET Core
3 12 (13.04%) Web Services
4 9 (9.78%) Spring
4 9 (9.78%) Spring Boot
5 8 (8.70%) ARM Templates
5 8 (8.70%) Azure Blueprints
6 7 (7.61%) ASP.NET
6 7 (7.61%) REST
7 5 (5.43%) Node.js
7 5 (5.43%) SOAP
8 4 (4.35%) React
8 4 (4.35%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 4 (4.35%) YAML
9 3 (3.26%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (3.26%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (3.26%) Playwright
9 3 (3.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.13%) Management Information System
2 11 (11.96%) Product Ownership
3 9 (9.78%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.43%) FMCG
5 4 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.26%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.26%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.17%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.09%) PMI
8 1 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.52%) Windows
2 1 (1.09%) Android
2 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.09%) Linux
2 1 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (76.09%) Test Automation
2 61 (66.30%) Agile
3 51 (55.43%) Functional Testing
4 46 (50.00%) DevOps
5 40 (43.48%) Software Testing
6 31 (33.70%) CI/CD
7 27 (29.35%) Test Strategy
8 21 (22.83%) Scrum
9 20 (21.74%) Test Scripting
10 18 (19.57%) BDD
10 18 (19.57%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (19.57%) System Integration Testing
11 17 (18.48%) Mentoring
11 17 (18.48%) SDLC
11 17 (18.48%) Software Engineering
11 17 (18.48%) User Acceptance Testing
12 16 (17.39%) Manual Testing
13 15 (16.30%) Agile Testing
13 15 (16.30%) API Testing
13 15 (16.30%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (33.70%) C#
2 26 (28.26%) SQL
3 15 (16.30%) Java
4 14 (15.22%) JavaScript
5 12 (13.04%) Python
6 7 (7.61%) C
7 5 (5.43%) Scala
7 5 (5.43%) T-SQL
8 4 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.35%) VB
9 1 (1.09%) Groovy
9 1 (1.09%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (14.13%) ISTQB
2 12 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 11 (11.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.35%) Degree
5 2 (2.17%) ISEB
5 2 (2.17%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.09%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.09%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (45.65%) QA
2 8 (8.70%) NCSC
3 7 (7.61%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (14.13%) Docker
2 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.70%) Ansible
2 8 (8.70%) Terraform
3 2 (2.17%) Grafana
4 1 (1.09%) Kibana
4 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.61%) Oracle
3 5 (5.43%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.35%) Databricks
5 3 (3.26%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.26%) Micro Focus
5 3 (3.26%) Splunk
6 1 (1.09%) Google
6 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow