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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 601 463
Rank change year-on-year +35 -138 -46
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 104 254 700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.27% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.32% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 83 179 363
10th Percentile £36,150 £37,250 £37,400
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £44,519
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,200 £74,375
90th Percentile £77,000 £78,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% +10.53%

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 47,280 80,404 105,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.55% 86.78% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,837 58,088 61,888
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,095
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.41% +3.98%

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 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Top 15 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 2 April 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 +17 95 £55,000 +10.00% 169
UK excluding London +80 74 £53,000 +6.00% 107
Work from Home +86 35 £62,500 +19.05% 87
Midlands +45 29 £66,250 +32.50% 11
London +33 20 £70,000 +27.27% 82
West Midlands +7 18 £75,000 +50.00% 2
North of England +66 16 £45,000 -10.00% 23
East of England +50 14 £53,000 -15.20% 15
East Midlands +57 11 £55,000 +11.50% 8
North West +25 11 £50,000 +5.26% 18
South East +59 9 £31,000 -40.95% 25
Yorkshire +61 4 £32,485 -35.03% 2
Scotland +120 3 £40,000 +11.81% 16
South West +87 3 £55,000 +10.00% 13
North East +42 1 £52,500 - 3

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 3 (2.88%) Appian
1 3 (2.88%) Confluence
2 2 (1.92%) CMS
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.92%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.96%) Endur
2 1 (0.96%) Magento
2 1 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.96%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.96%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.96%) SAP APO
2 1 (0.96%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.96%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.96%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.96%) SAP PP
2 1 (0.96%) SAP Travel Management
2 1 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 32 (30.77%) Azure
2 29 (27.88%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (22.12%) AWS
4 22 (21.15%) GitHub
5 16 (15.38%) SaaS
6 12 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (11.54%) IaaS
6 12 (11.54%) PaaS
7 4 (3.85%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.88%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.92%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.92%) dbt
9 2 (1.92%) Fivetran
9 2 (1.92%) Matillion
10 1 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.96%) Heroku
10 1 (0.96%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.62%) Ethernet
1 10 (9.62%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.96%) RFID
2 1 (0.96%) SpaceWire
2 1 (0.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (24.04%) SQL Server
2 14 (13.46%) MySQL
3 5 (4.81%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.85%) Power BI
5 2 (1.92%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.92%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.96%) Big Data
6 1 (0.96%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 12 (11.54%) SonarQube
2 11 (10.58%) Selenium
3 10 (9.62%) JIRA
4 6 (5.77%) Git
5 5 (4.81%) JMeter
6 4 (3.85%) Appium
6 4 (3.85%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.85%) TestRail
6 4 (3.85%) WebDriver
7 3 (2.88%) Eclipse
7 3 (2.88%) JUnit
7 3 (2.88%) PHPUnit
7 3 (2.88%) Postman
8 2 (1.92%) LabVIEW
8 2 (1.92%) LoadRunner
8 2 (1.92%) Maven
8 2 (1.92%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.96%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.96%) Locust
9 1 (0.96%) REST Assured
General
1 24 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.69%) Electronics
3 8 (7.69%) Finance
4 6 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.81%) Games
5 5 (4.81%) Legal
6 4 (3.85%) Law
6 4 (3.85%) Retail
7 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.92%) Back Office
8 2 (1.92%) Billing
8 2 (1.92%) Marketing
8 2 (1.92%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.96%) Banking
9 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.96%) German Language
9 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (29.81%) Developer
2 21 (20.19%) Software Developer
3 14 (13.46%) Senior
4 12 (11.54%) .NET Developer
4 12 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (11.54%) Tester
5 11 (10.58%) Analyst
6 10 (9.62%) .NET Software Developer
6 10 (9.62%) Python Developer
7 9 (8.65%) Test Engineer
8 8 (7.69%) Lead
9 7 (6.73%) Software Tester
10 5 (4.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (4.81%) Site Manager
11 4 (3.85%) Automation Tester
11 4 (3.85%) Business Analyst
11 4 (3.85%) QA Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Test Analyst
11 4 (3.85%) Test Leader
12 3 (2.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.35%) .NET
2 12 (11.54%) .NET Framework
2 12 (11.54%) ARM Templates
2 12 (11.54%) Azure Blueprints
3 10 (9.62%) Django
3 10 (9.62%) XML
4 8 (7.69%) CSS
4 8 (7.69%) HTML
5 7 (6.73%) Node.js
6 6 (5.77%) React
7 5 (4.81%) Playwright
8 4 (3.85%) Redux
9 3 (2.88%) CakePHP
9 3 (2.88%) Laravel
10 2 (1.92%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.92%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 2 (1.92%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (1.92%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.92%) LAMP
11 1 (0.96%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 12 (11.54%) Onboarding
3 10 (9.62%) Robotics
4 6 (5.77%) Driving Licence
4 6 (5.77%) Mobile App
4 6 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.77%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (4.81%) Photovoltaics
5 5 (4.81%) SCADA
5 5 (4.81%) Sports Betting
6 3 (2.88%) Derivative
6 3 (2.88%) Solar Energy
7 2 (1.92%) Analogue Electronics
7 2 (1.92%) BBC
7 2 (1.92%) Equities
7 2 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.92%) FPGA
7 2 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.88%) Linux
1 3 (2.88%) Unix
1 3 (2.88%) Windows
2 1 (0.96%) Android
2 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (35.58%) Test Automation
2 35 (33.65%) DevOps
3 31 (29.81%) Software Testing
4 29 (27.88%) Non-Functional Testing
5 20 (19.23%) Scrum
6 18 (17.31%) Agile
7 16 (15.38%) Computer Science
7 16 (15.38%) Software Engineering
8 14 (13.46%) User Acceptance Testing
9 13 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 13 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
9 13 (12.50%) Release Management
9 13 (12.50%) Test Scripting
10 12 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (11.54%) DevSecOps
10 12 (11.54%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 12 (11.54%) Manual Testing
10 12 (11.54%) Mentoring
10 12 (11.54%) Performance Analysis
10 12 (11.54%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (25.00%) Python
2 20 (19.23%) C#
3 15 (14.42%) JavaScript
3 15 (14.42%) SQL
4 6 (5.77%) Java
5 4 (3.85%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.88%) Bash
6 3 (2.88%) C++
6 3 (2.88%) PHP
7 2 (1.92%) ABAP
7 2 (1.92%) C
7 2 (1.92%) Perl
8 1 (0.96%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.96%) Ruby
8 1 (0.96%) Tcl
8 1 (0.96%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (28.85%) Degree
2 18 (17.31%) Security Cleared
3 15 (14.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (11.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (7.69%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.85%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.92%) CCA
8 2 (1.92%) CISSP
8 2 (1.92%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.96%) ISEB
9 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (21.15%) QA
2 12 (11.54%) NCSC
3 4 (3.85%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.92%) GDPR
5 1 (0.96%) GMP
5 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (14.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (14.42%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.46%) Terraform
3 12 (11.54%) Ansible
4 2 (1.92%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.96%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.85%) SAP
3 3 (2.88%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.92%) Charles River
4 2 (1.92%) Databricks
4 2 (1.92%) Informatica
4 2 (1.92%) Mentor Graphics
4 2 (1.92%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.96%) Adobe
5 1 (0.96%) Cognos
5 1 (0.96%) Concur
5 1 (0.96%) EMC
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle
5 1 (0.96%) Pega
5 1 (0.96%) Sparx
5 1 (0.96%) UiPath