HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), formerly QuickTest Professional (QTP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for HP UFT skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited HP UFT over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 730 995 1024
Rank change year-on-year +265 +29 -316
Permanent jobs citing HP UFT 14 90 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.072% 0.056%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.20% 0.39% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 5 64 26
10th Percentile £63,250 £41,227 £33,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £49,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% +3.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £62,438
90th Percentile £73,250 £70,000 £68,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% +20.00% +36.05%

All Development Application Skills
UK

HP UFT is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,960 22,814 26,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.96% 18.21% 20.57%
Number of salaries quoted 5,335 12,837 16,476
10th Percentile £42,439 £39,837 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,091 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,548 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,526 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.23% +10.00% -

HP UFT
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HP UFT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HP UFT in the UK

HP UFT
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing HP UFT.

Salary trend for HP UFT in the UK

HP UFT
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HP UFT within the UK over the 6 months to 1 December 2023. 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 +243 5 £67,500 +8.00% 2
UK excluding London +218 4 £67,500 +12.50% 1
South West +78 4 £67,500 +8.00%
Work from Home +238 3 £67,500 +12.50%
London +237 1 £72,500 +16.00% 2

HP UFT
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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) Azure
2 9 (64.29%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) AWS
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Selenium
2 4 (28.57%) JMeter
2 4 (28.57%) JUnit
2 4 (28.57%) SoapUI
2 4 (28.57%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Postman
General
1 13 (92.86%) Finance
2 9 (64.29%) Financial Institution
3 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
5 3 (21.43%) Electronics
5 3 (21.43%) Manufacturing
5 3 (21.43%) Marketing
5 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
6 2 (14.29%) Banking
7 1 (7.14%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Testing Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Automation Test Lead
2 4 (28.57%) Lead
2 4 (28.57%) Release Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Test Leader
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Financial Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Testing Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Service Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Software Testing Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Kafka
2 4 (28.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
1 4 (28.57%) Tandem
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 4 (28.57%) Unix
2 4 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
1 14 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (92.86%) CI/CD
2 13 (92.86%) DevOps
3 8 (57.14%) BDD
4 7 (50.00%) Process Improvement
5 6 (42.86%) Test Strategy
6 5 (35.71%) TDD
7 4 (28.57%) Analytical Thinking
7 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (28.57%) Functional Testing
7 4 (28.57%) Performance Management
7 4 (28.57%) Proactive Maintenance
7 4 (28.57%) Project Management
7 4 (28.57%) Regression Testing
7 4 (28.57%) Release Management
7 4 (28.57%) Requirements Management
7 4 (28.57%) SDLC
7 4 (28.57%) Test Management
8 3 (21.43%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.14%) ISEB
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) HP
2 3 (21.43%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle