HP UFT Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring HP UFT skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 650 694 710
Rank change year-on-year +44 +16 +230
Permanent jobs citing HP UFT 3 5 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.005% 0.009% 0.020%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.082% 0.091% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £59,500 £58,000 £66,497
25th Percentile £64,375 £62,500 £66,867
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £69,038
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.39% +15.06%
75th Percentile £78,125 £75,000 £71,512
90th Percentile £78,500 £78,000 £72,064
UK excluding London median annual salary - £70,000 £69,038
% change year-on-year - +1.39% +15.06%

All Development Application Skills
UK

HP UFT falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,645 5,498 6,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.08% 10.27% 11.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,384 3,157 5,244
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,544 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,279 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.77% -4.35% +4.55%

HP UFT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

HP UFT job vacancy trend in the UK

HP UFT
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HP UFT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HP UFT

HP UFT
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing HP UFT over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for HP UFT in the UK

HP UFT
Top 2 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 14 January 2026. 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 +62 3 £75,000 +7.14% 2
London +54 2 £76,250 +17.31%

HP UFT
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) BrowserStack
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) Tricentis Tosca
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Appium
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) Gatling
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JMeter
2 2 (66.67%) NeoLoad
2 2 (66.67%) Ranorex
2 2 (66.67%) SpecFlow
2 2 (66.67%) Tricentis qTest
2 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
1 3 (100.00%) Test Leader
2 2 (66.67%) Automation Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Test Management
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA