Non-Functional Testing Jobs

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Non-Functional Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 715 615 605
Rank change year-on-year -100 -10 -34
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 127 285 889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.35% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.37% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 108 183 473
10th Percentile £41,117 £42,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £43,178 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £57,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +0.88% +3.64%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,500 £85,000 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Non-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 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Non-Functional Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 -96 113 £57,965 +0.81% 25
UK excluding London -83 70 £50,000 -4.76% 19
Work from Home -7 69 £57,965 +0.81% 20
London +2 41 £68,500 +5.38% 10
West Midlands +17 28 £60,000 +29.31% 1
Midlands -11 28 £60,000 +29.31% 1
North of England -3 21 £48,750 +2.63% 6
South East -11 17 £47,500 -11.63% 8
North West -4 13 £45,000 -1.10% 5
Yorkshire +48 5 £50,000 +2.56% 1
North East -17 3 £57,965 +15.93%
Wales +28 2 £40,808 -14.98%
South West -22 1 £39,347 -37.04% 1
Scotland -51 1 £50,000 -16.67% 1

Non-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 (2.36%) OpenZeppelin
2 2 (1.57%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (4.72%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (3.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.15%) BASE24
2 3 (2.36%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 59 (46.46%) Azure
2 35 (27.56%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (25.20%) AWS
4 25 (19.69%) GitHub
5 21 (16.54%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (16.54%) PaaS
6 20 (15.75%) SaaS
7 15 (11.81%) IaaS
8 7 (5.51%) BrowserStack
9 3 (2.36%) Contentful
9 3 (2.36%) GCP
9 3 (2.36%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.79%) Firebase
10 1 (0.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.36%) IPFS
2 1 (0.79%) HTTP
2 1 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.39%) Relational Database
2 10 (7.87%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.94%) DynamoDB
3 5 (3.94%) Redis
4 4 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.15%) InfluxDB
4 4 (3.15%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.15%) NonStop SQL
4 4 (3.15%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.57%) Big Data
6 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.79%) MySQL
6 1 (0.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (32.28%) Selenium
2 26 (20.47%) JMeter
3 22 (17.32%) Postman
4 17 (13.39%) Visual Studio
4 17 (13.39%) WebDriver
5 16 (12.60%) GitLab
6 15 (11.81%) Jenkins
6 15 (11.81%) NUnit
6 15 (11.81%) SonarQube
7 14 (11.02%) SoapUI
8 13 (10.24%) Cypress.io
9 12 (9.45%) REST Assured
9 12 (9.45%) SpecFlow
10 11 (8.66%) JIRA
11 10 (7.87%) Gatling
12 8 (6.30%) LoadRunner
13 5 (3.94%) Cucumber
13 5 (3.94%) MSTest
13 5 (3.94%) NeoLoad
13 5 (3.94%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (18.90%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.17%) Public Sector
3 14 (11.02%) Finance
4 11 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.51%) Banking
6 5 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.94%) Marketing
6 5 (3.94%) Police
7 4 (3.15%) Law
7 4 (3.15%) Legal
7 4 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.15%) Welsh Language
8 3 (2.36%) Electronics
9 2 (1.57%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (1.57%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Wearables
10 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Retail
10 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (30.71%) Senior
2 30 (23.62%) Test Engineer
3 22 (17.32%) Analyst
4 20 (15.75%) Lead
5 19 (14.96%) Senior Test Engineer
6 17 (13.39%) Test Analyst
7 12 (9.45%) Senior Analyst
7 12 (9.45%) Tester
8 11 (8.66%) Test Leader
9 8 (6.30%) Developer
10 7 (5.51%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Senior Test Analyst
11 6 (4.72%) Senior Tester
12 5 (3.94%) Automation Tester
12 5 (3.94%) QA Automation Analyst
12 5 (3.94%) QA Automation Tester
12 5 (3.94%) QA Tester
12 5 (3.94%) Selenium Automation Tester
12 5 (3.94%) Selenium Test Analyst
12 5 (3.94%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.90%) XML
2 21 (16.54%) .NET
3 16 (12.60%) JSON
4 15 (11.81%) ARM Templates
4 15 (11.81%) Azure Blueprints
5 13 (10.24%) .NET Core
5 13 (10.24%) Node.js
6 9 (7.09%) SOAP
7 8 (6.30%) REST
7 8 (6.30%) Web Services
8 7 (5.51%) ASP.NET
8 7 (5.51%) Gherkin
8 7 (5.51%) WebdriverIO
9 6 (4.72%) React
10 4 (3.15%) OAuth
10 4 (3.15%) OAuth2
10 4 (3.15%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 4 (3.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 4 (3.15%) YAML
11 3 (2.36%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.90%) Management Information System
2 23 (18.11%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.72%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.15%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.15%) Replication
5 3 (2.36%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.36%) Blockchain
5 3 (2.36%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.36%) NFT
5 3 (2.36%) Web3
6 2 (1.57%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.57%) IoT
6 2 (1.57%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.79%) Clustering
7 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.79%) FMCG
7 1 (0.79%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.94%) Unix
1 5 (3.94%) Windows
2 2 (1.57%) Android
2 2 (1.57%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (74.02%) Test Automation
2 74 (58.27%) Agile
3 72 (56.69%) DevOps
4 63 (49.61%) Functional Testing
5 39 (30.71%) Mentoring
6 37 (29.13%) Software Testing
7 35 (27.56%) Software Engineering
8 27 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (18.90%) CI/CD
9 24 (18.90%) Containerisation
9 24 (18.90%) DevSecOps
10 23 (18.11%) Continuous Integration
10 23 (18.11%) Scrum
11 21 (16.54%) Test Strategy
12 20 (15.75%) Test Scripting
13 19 (14.96%) API Testing
13 19 (14.96%) Coaching
13 19 (14.96%) Microservices
13 19 (14.96%) SDLC
14 18 (14.17%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 41 (32.28%) SQL
2 37 (29.13%) C#
3 30 (23.62%) JavaScript
4 23 (18.11%) Java
5 13 (10.24%) Python
6 7 (5.51%) C
7 6 (4.72%) T-SQL
8 5 (3.94%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.15%) VB
10 3 (2.36%) C++
10 3 (2.36%) Rust
10 3 (2.36%) Solidity
11 2 (1.57%) Scala
12 1 (0.79%) Groovy
12 1 (0.79%) Perl
Qualifications
1 23 (18.11%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.54%) ISTQB
3 20 (15.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (6.30%) Degree
5 7 (5.51%) ISEB
6 4 (3.15%) GIAC
7 3 (2.36%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.57%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (37.80%) QA
2 23 (18.11%) Accessibility
3 15 (11.81%) NCSC
4 2 (1.57%) GDPR
4 2 (1.57%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.57%) IEC 62304
4 2 (1.57%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 26 (20.47%) Docker
2 2 (1.57%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (1.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (16.54%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.81%) Ansible
2 15 (11.81%) Terraform
3 10 (7.87%) Grafana
4 5 (3.94%) HP ALM
4 5 (3.94%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.66%) Oracle
3 9 (7.09%) HP
4 6 (4.72%) Splunk
5 5 (3.94%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.15%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.15%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.36%) Foundry
7 3 (2.36%) OpenText
7 3 (2.36%) Siebel
8 2 (1.57%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.57%) Databricks
8 2 (1.57%) iManage
8 2 (1.57%) Intapp
9 1 (0.79%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.79%) Google
9 1 (0.79%) New Relic
9 1 (0.79%) SAP