Functional Testing Job Trends

Functional Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Functional Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 555 476
Rank change year-on-year -4 -79 -61
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 87 161 224
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.28% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.31% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 59 120 119
10th Percentile £30,800 £37,425 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £47,188 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,250 £71,250 £66,875
90th Percentile £106,500 £78,875 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £53,000 £47,679
% change year-on-year -24.53% +11.16% -4.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,535 51,647 46,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.52% 88.55% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 28,396 26,504 35,505
10th Percentile £28,432 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £99,899
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.49% +4.37% -2.51%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Functional Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Functional Testing job vacancy trend in the UK

Functional Testing
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Functional Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England +14 81 £56,250 +2.27% 42
London +74 40 £73,000 +0.69% 11
UK excluding London -18 37 £40,000 -24.53% 40
Work from Home +61 31 £52,500 -12.50% 25
South East +41 17 £34,000 -24.44% 15
North West +11 8 £60,000 +26.32%
North of England -2 8 £60,000 +29.52% 2
Midlands -7 7 £37,500 -37.50% 8
East Midlands -14 4 £37,500 -31.82% 2
South West +12 3 £32,500 -40.91% 6
West Midlands +8 3 - - 6
Scotland +12 1 £70,000 +124.00% 6
East of England +12 1 - - 6

Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 10 (11.49%) Confluence
2 2 (2.30%) WordPress
3 1 (1.15%) Camunda
Applications
1 10 (11.49%) MS Visio
2 8 (9.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (2.30%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (2.30%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (2.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (2.30%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (2.30%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (2.30%) Elementor
5 2 (2.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) SAP CO
1 3 (3.45%) SAP FI
1 3 (3.45%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.15%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.15%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.24%) AWS
2 14 (16.09%) Azure
3 9 (10.34%) SaaS
4 8 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.75%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (4.60%) BrowserStack
6 4 (4.60%) Tricentis Tosca
7 3 (3.45%) Adobe Analytics
7 3 (3.45%) Datadog
8 2 (2.30%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (2.30%) GCP
9 1 (1.15%) Algolia
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.15%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.15%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.15%) GitHub
9 1 (1.15%) IaaS
9 1 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.15%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.09%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (9.20%) DB2
4 5 (5.75%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.45%) Mixpanel
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.15%) MySQL
6 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (31.03%) JIRA
2 17 (19.54%) Selenium
3 12 (13.79%) Cucumber
3 12 (13.79%) Jenkins
4 11 (12.64%) Postman
5 9 (10.34%) Bitbucket
5 9 (10.34%) Cypress.io
6 8 (9.20%) TeamCity
7 7 (8.05%) SoapUI
8 5 (5.75%) Git
8 5 (5.75%) WebDriver
9 4 (4.60%) Maven
9 4 (4.60%) SpecFlow
9 4 (4.60%) Zephyr
10 3 (3.45%) Appium
10 3 (3.45%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (3.45%) Charles Proxy
10 3 (3.45%) Fiddler
10 3 (3.45%) GitLab
10 3 (3.45%) TestNG
General
1 26 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 24 (27.59%) Finance
3 13 (14.94%) Manufacturing
4 12 (13.79%) Law
5 11 (12.64%) Banking
6 10 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (11.49%) Games
7 9 (10.34%) Electronics
8 8 (9.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (9.20%) Marketing
9 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
9 5 (5.75%) Retail
10 4 (4.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (2.30%) Back Office
12 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
12 2 (2.30%) Multimedia
12 2 (2.30%) Tech for Good
13 1 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (21.84%) Lead
2 17 (19.54%) Developer
3 15 (17.24%) Senior
3 15 (17.24%) Test Engineer
4 8 (9.20%) Java Developer
5 7 (8.05%) Agile Developer
5 7 (8.05%) Agile Java Developer
5 7 (8.05%) QA Leader
5 7 (8.05%) Senior Test Engineer
5 7 (8.05%) Test Manager
6 5 (5.75%) .NET Developer
6 5 (5.75%) Enterprise Solutions Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Senior Developer
6 5 (5.75%) Test Leader
7 4 (4.60%) Consultant
7 4 (4.60%) Support Technician
7 4 (4.60%) Test Technician
8 3 (3.45%) IT Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Senior IT Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.64%) HTML
2 10 (11.49%) React
3 9 (10.34%) CSS
4 8 (9.20%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (9.20%) Gherkin
4 8 (9.20%) Node.js
4 8 (9.20%) Playwright
4 8 (9.20%) RESTful
5 7 (8.05%) .NET
6 5 (5.75%) .NET Core
6 5 (5.75%) Akka
6 5 (5.75%) Akka.NET
6 5 (5.75%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (3.45%) Bootstrap
7 3 (3.45%) SOAP
7 3 (3.45%) Spring
7 3 (3.45%) XML
8 2 (2.30%) JSON
8 2 (2.30%) Web Services
9 1 (1.15%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.20%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (8.05%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.75%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.75%) Tandem
4 4 (4.60%) Biopharmaceutical
5 3 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.45%) W3C
6 2 (2.30%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.30%) e-Learning
6 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.30%) Graphic Design
6 2 (2.30%) IoT
6 2 (2.30%) Learning Management System
6 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.75%) Apple iOS
2 4 (4.60%) Android
3 2 (2.30%) Linux
4 1 (1.15%) OpenVMS
4 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (44.83%) Test Automation
2 32 (36.78%) Non-Functional Testing
3 31 (35.63%) Agile
4 25 (28.74%) CI/CD
5 21 (24.14%) Integration Testing
6 20 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (21.84%) Scrum
8 18 (20.69%) Validation
9 17 (19.54%) API Testing
10 16 (18.39%) User Experience
11 15 (17.24%) Mentoring
12 14 (16.09%) BDD
12 14 (16.09%) Microservices
12 14 (16.09%) Software Testing
12 14 (16.09%) Test Management
13 13 (14.94%) Regression Testing
13 13 (14.94%) Unit Testing
14 12 (13.79%) Manual Testing
14 12 (13.79%) Test Strategy
14 12 (13.79%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (22.99%) SQL
2 14 (16.09%) JavaScript
3 13 (14.94%) Java
4 8 (9.20%) C#
5 4 (4.60%) Python
6 3 (3.45%) Erlang
7 2 (2.30%) ABAP
8 1 (1.15%) Go
8 1 (1.15%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.15%) PHP
8 1 (1.15%) RPG
8 1 (1.15%) Swift
8 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (16.09%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.94%) Degree
3 9 (10.34%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.60%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.30%) BC Cleared
5 2 (2.30%) ISEB
5 2 (2.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (29.89%) QA
2 3 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.15%) GDPR
4 1 (1.15%) NCSC
4 1 (1.15%) PMO
4 1 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (11.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (11.49%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.30%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.15%) Ansible
4 1 (1.15%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.15%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.20%) Atlassian
3 7 (8.05%) SAP
4 5 (5.75%) Adobe
5 3 (3.45%) IBM
5 3 (3.45%) Samsung
5 3 (3.45%) Tealium
6 2 (2.30%) HP
6 2 (2.30%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.30%) Siebel
7 1 (1.15%) Aderant
7 1 (1.15%) Ariba
7 1 (1.15%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.15%) iManage
7 1 (1.15%) Intapp
7 1 (1.15%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.15%) OpenText