Functional Testing Jobs

Functional Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Functional Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Functional Testing over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 629 642 513
Rank change year-on-year +13 -129 -166
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 85 275 530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.28% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.32% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 59 179 287
10th Percentile £36,000 £33,656 £38,250
25th Percentile £40,625 £41,875 £44,754
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,725 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% -9.09% +15.79%

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 51,521 85,132 94,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.87% 85.14% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 25,367 59,760 55,710
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,078 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Functional Testing.

Salary trend for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Top 16 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 22 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
England -18 74 £53,000 +6.00% 527
UK excluding London +40 53 £53,000 +6.00% 488
Work from Home +46 26 £55,000 - 179
London +79 21 £65,000 +23.81% 93
North of England +22 15 £45,000 -10.00% 100
North West -15 13 £45,000 -5.26% 51
Midlands +17 12 £75,000 +50.00% 78
West Midlands +31 10 £75,000 +50.00% 41
East of England +26 9 £53,000 -15.20% 75
South East +35 8 £34,000 -30.61% 136
South West +96 5 £56,785 +41.96% 71
Scotland +121 3 - - 19
East Midlands +26 2 £55,000 +11.50% 33
Yorkshire +52 1 £29,750 -40.50% 34
North East +44 1 £52,500 - 15
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (4.71%) Confluence
2 3 (3.53%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.53%) Appian
3 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.18%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.18%) Endur
2 1 (1.18%) Magento
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.18%) SAP APO
2 1 (1.18%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 22 (25.88%) Azure
2 18 (21.18%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (15.29%) AWS
4 9 (10.59%) GitHub
4 9 (10.59%) SaaS
5 6 (7.06%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (7.06%) IaaS
5 6 (7.06%) PaaS
6 4 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (3.53%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.18%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) Ethernet
1 2 (2.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.18%) Internet
2 1 (1.18%) RTP
2 1 (1.18%) SpaceWire
2 1 (1.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.59%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.06%) MySQL
3 3 (3.53%) Big Data
3 3 (3.53%) Delta Lake
3 3 (3.53%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.53%) Power BI
4 2 (2.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (12.94%) Selenium
2 10 (11.76%) JIRA
3 7 (8.24%) Git
4 6 (7.06%) Postman
4 6 (7.06%) SonarQube
5 5 (5.88%) JMeter
6 4 (4.71%) Appium
6 4 (4.71%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.71%) TestRail
6 4 (4.71%) WebDriver
7 3 (3.53%) Locust
7 3 (3.53%) PHPUnit
7 3 (3.53%) Robot Framework
8 2 (2.35%) JUnit
8 2 (2.35%) LabVIEW
8 2 (2.35%) LoadRunner
8 2 (2.35%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.18%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.18%) TestComplete
General
1 18 (21.18%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.29%) Finance
3 9 (10.59%) Manufacturing
4 8 (9.41%) Public Sector
5 7 (8.24%) Electronics
6 6 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.06%) Law
7 5 (5.88%) Games
7 5 (5.88%) Legal
7 5 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (4.71%) Banking
8 4 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.71%) Retail
9 2 (2.35%) Billing
9 2 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.35%) Military
9 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.18%) Back Office
10 1 (1.18%) Marketing
10 1 (1.18%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (22.35%) Developer
2 17 (20.00%) Senior
3 13 (15.29%) Test Engineer
4 12 (14.12%) Software Developer
5 10 (11.76%) Analyst
5 10 (11.76%) Lead
5 10 (11.76%) Tester
6 7 (8.24%) .NET Developer
6 7 (8.24%) .NET Software Developer
7 6 (7.06%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) QA Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Site Manager
8 5 (5.88%) Software Tester
9 4 (4.71%) Business Analyst
9 4 (4.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 4 (4.71%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (4.71%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Senior Manager
9 4 (4.71%) Test Leader
10 3 (3.53%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.12%) .NET
2 9 (10.59%) CSS
2 9 (10.59%) HTML
3 8 (9.41%) .NET Framework
4 7 (8.24%) Node.js
5 6 (7.06%) ARM Templates
5 6 (7.06%) Azure Blueprints
5 6 (7.06%) React
6 5 (5.88%) Playwright
7 4 (4.71%) Redux
8 3 (3.53%) CakePHP
8 3 (3.53%) Laravel
8 3 (3.53%) pytest
8 3 (3.53%) XML
8 3 (3.53%) YAML
9 2 (2.35%) Django
9 2 (2.35%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (2.35%) LAMP
9 2 (2.35%) REST
9 2 (2.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Driving Licence
1 6 (7.06%) Management Information System
1 6 (7.06%) Onboarding
1 6 (7.06%) Renewable Energy
2 5 (5.88%) Biopharmaceutical
2 5 (5.88%) Photovoltaics
2 5 (5.88%) SCADA
3 4 (4.71%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.71%) Sports Betting
4 3 (3.53%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.53%) Solar Energy
5 2 (2.35%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (2.35%) BBC
5 2 (2.35%) Derivative
5 2 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.35%) Robotics
6 1 (1.18%) EPoS
6 1 (1.18%) Equities
6 1 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.18%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.88%) Unix
2 4 (4.71%) Linux
3 2 (2.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (35.29%) Test Automation
2 23 (27.06%) DevOps
3 20 (23.53%) Agile
3 20 (23.53%) Non-Functional Testing
3 20 (23.53%) Software Testing
4 19 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (21.18%) Scrum
6 16 (18.82%) Test Scripting
6 16 (18.82%) User Acceptance Testing
7 13 (15.29%) API Testing
7 13 (15.29%) Test Management
7 13 (15.29%) Test Strategy
7 13 (15.29%) Validation
8 12 (14.12%) Computer Science
9 11 (12.94%) Integration Testing
9 11 (12.94%) Software Engineering
10 10 (11.76%) Manual Testing
10 10 (11.76%) Project Management
10 10 (11.76%) Regression Testing
10 10 (11.76%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.82%) SQL
2 15 (17.65%) Python
3 13 (15.29%) JavaScript
4 10 (11.76%) C#
5 7 (8.24%) Java
6 3 (3.53%) Bash
6 3 (3.53%) PHP
6 3 (3.53%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.35%) C
7 2 (2.35%) C++
7 2 (2.35%) Perl
7 2 (2.35%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.35%) X++
8 1 (1.18%) Tcl
8 1 (1.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (25.88%) Degree
2 15 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 10 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (11.76%) ISTQB
4 8 (9.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (8.24%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.35%) CCA
7 2 (2.35%) CISSP
7 2 (2.35%) CITP
7 2 (2.35%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.18%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (32.94%) QA
2 6 (7.06%) NCSC
3 2 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.18%) GMP
4 1 (1.18%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.18%) SEPA
4 1 (1.18%) SLA
4 1 (1.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.94%) Terraform
2 10 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.06%) Ansible
4 2 (2.35%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.18%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.71%) Databricks
3 3 (3.53%) Bloomberg
4 2 (2.35%) Charles River
4 2 (2.35%) Mentor Graphics
4 2 (2.35%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.35%) SAP
4 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.18%) Cognos
5 1 (1.18%) Concur
5 1 (1.18%) DocuSign
5 1 (1.18%) EMC
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle
5 1 (1.18%) UiPath