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

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 591 622 514
Rank change year-on-year +31 -108 -151
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 96 282 598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.29% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.33% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 72 186 314
10th Percentile £36,100 £34,520 £38,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £41,250 £44,784
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £61,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,125 £73,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £53,996
% change year-on-year +6.00% -7.40% +13.67%

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 48,105 84,479 100,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.22% 86.05% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,550 59,789 58,948
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.71% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 26 April 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 26 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 +11 85 £55,000 +10.00% 183
UK excluding London +66 64 £53,000 +6.00% 112
Work from Home +71 30 £66,250 +26.19% 66
London +77 21 £70,000 +33.33% 86
Midlands +39 21 £68,750 +37.50% 13
North of England +45 15 £50,000 +2.56% 22
West Midlands +33 14 £75,000 +50.00% 7
East of England +54 12 £53,000 -15.20% 15
North West +13 12 £52,500 +10.53% 16
South East +57 9 £31,000 -40.95% 33
East Midlands +59 7 £55,000 +11.50% 6
Scotland +129 3 £40,000 +11.81% 6
South West +104 3 £56,785 +41.96% 13
Yorkshire +58 2 £31,118 -37.77% 4
North East +52 1 £52,500 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 4 (4.17%) Confluence
2 3 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.13%) Appian
3 1 (1.04%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.04%) Endur
1 1 (1.04%) Magento
1 1 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.04%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.04%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.04%) SAP APO
1 1 (1.04%) SAP IBP
1 1 (1.04%) SAP PP
1 1 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.04%) SAP SD
1 1 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 29 (30.21%) Azure
2 26 (27.08%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (16.67%) AWS
4 15 (15.63%) GitHub
5 13 (13.54%) SaaS
6 9 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (9.38%) IaaS
6 9 (9.38%) PaaS
7 4 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.17%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.04%) BrowserStack
10 1 (1.04%) dbt
10 1 (1.04%) Fivetran
10 1 (1.04%) Matillion
10 1 (1.04%) Sentry
10 1 (1.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.25%) Ethernet
1 6 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.04%) Internet
2 1 (1.04%) RTP
2 1 (1.04%) SpaceWire
2 1 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.71%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.42%) MySQL
3 4 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.17%) Power BI
4 3 (3.13%) Big Data
4 3 (3.13%) Delta Lake
4 3 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.04%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (13.54%) Selenium
2 11 (11.46%) JIRA
3 9 (9.38%) SonarQube
4 8 (8.33%) Git
5 6 (6.25%) JMeter
6 5 (5.21%) Cypress.io
6 5 (5.21%) Postman
7 4 (4.17%) Appium
7 4 (4.17%) TestRail
7 4 (4.17%) WebDriver
8 3 (3.13%) JUnit
8 3 (3.13%) Locust
8 3 (3.13%) PHPUnit
8 3 (3.13%) Robot Framework
9 2 (2.08%) Eclipse
9 2 (2.08%) LabVIEW
9 2 (2.08%) LoadRunner
10 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.04%) Maven
10 1 (1.04%) SpecFlow
General
1 21 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.46%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.38%) Finance
4 8 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.33%) Electronics
5 5 (5.21%) Games
5 5 (5.21%) Legal
6 4 (4.17%) Law
6 4 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.17%) Retail
7 2 (2.08%) Banking
7 2 (2.08%) Billing
7 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Marketing
7 2 (2.08%) Military
7 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.04%) Back Office
8 1 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (25.00%) Developer
2 16 (16.67%) Senior
3 15 (15.63%) Software Developer
4 12 (12.50%) Tester
5 11 (11.46%) Test Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) .NET Developer
6 9 (9.38%) Analyst
6 9 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) .NET Software Developer
7 8 (8.33%) Lead
8 7 (7.29%) Software Tester
9 6 (6.25%) Python Developer
10 5 (5.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (5.21%) Site Manager
10 5 (5.21%) Test Leader
11 4 (4.17%) Business Analyst
11 4 (4.17%) QA Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) Senior Manager
12 3 (3.13%) Senior Developer
12 3 (3.13%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.58%) .NET
2 10 (10.42%) .NET Framework
3 9 (9.38%) ARM Templates
3 9 (9.38%) Azure Blueprints
3 9 (9.38%) CSS
3 9 (9.38%) HTML
4 7 (7.29%) Node.js
4 7 (7.29%) React
4 7 (7.29%) XML
5 6 (6.25%) Django
5 6 (6.25%) Playwright
6 4 (4.17%) Redux
7 3 (3.13%) CakePHP
7 3 (3.13%) Laravel
7 3 (3.13%) pytest
7 3 (3.13%) YAML
8 2 (2.08%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.08%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 2 (2.08%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (2.08%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.38%) Management Information System
1 9 (9.38%) Onboarding
2 6 (6.25%) Driving Licence
2 6 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
2 6 (6.25%) Robotics
3 5 (5.21%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.21%) Photovoltaics
3 5 (5.21%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.21%) SCADA
4 4 (4.17%) Sports Betting
5 3 (3.13%) Derivative
5 3 (3.13%) Solar Energy
6 2 (2.08%) Analogue Electronics
6 2 (2.08%) BBC
6 2 (2.08%) Equities
6 2 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.08%) FPGA
6 2 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.04%) Biopharmaceutical
7 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.17%) Unix
2 3 (3.13%) Linux
2 3 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (36.46%) Test Automation
2 32 (33.33%) DevOps
3 27 (28.13%) Software Testing
4 26 (27.08%) Non-Functional Testing
5 21 (21.88%) Agile
5 21 (21.88%) Scrum
6 16 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 15 (15.63%) Test Management
7 15 (15.63%) Test Scripting
8 14 (14.58%) Test Strategy
9 13 (13.54%) Computer Science
9 13 (13.54%) Manual Testing
9 13 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (13.54%) Project Management
9 13 (13.54%) Release Management
9 13 (13.54%) Software Engineering
10 11 (11.46%) API Testing
10 11 (11.46%) Integration Testing
10 11 (11.46%) Regression Testing
10 11 (11.46%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.92%) Python
2 16 (16.67%) SQL
3 15 (15.63%) C#
4 14 (14.58%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.25%) Java
6 4 (4.17%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.13%) Bash
7 3 (3.13%) C++
7 3 (3.13%) PHP
8 2 (2.08%) C
8 2 (2.08%) Perl
9 1 (1.04%) ABAP
9 1 (1.04%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.04%) Tcl
9 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (26.04%) Degree
2 18 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 12 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (11.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (10.42%) ISTQB
6 7 (7.29%) SC Cleared
7 4 (4.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.08%) CCA
8 2 (2.08%) CISSP
8 2 (2.08%) CITP
8 2 (2.08%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.04%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (28.13%) QA
2 9 (9.38%) NCSC
3 2 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.04%) GDPR
4 1 (1.04%) GMP
4 1 (1.04%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.04%) SEPA
4 1 (1.04%) SLA
4 1 (1.04%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (14.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (14.58%) Kubernetes
2 13 (13.54%) Terraform
3 9 (9.38%) Ansible
4 2 (2.08%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.04%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.17%) Databricks
3 3 (3.13%) Bloomberg
3 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.13%) SAP
4 2 (2.08%) Charles River
4 2 (2.08%) Mentor Graphics
4 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.04%) Cognos
5 1 (1.04%) Concur
5 1 (1.04%) EMC
5 1 (1.04%) Informatica
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle
5 1 (1.04%) Sparx
5 1 (1.04%) UiPath