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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 649 748 600
Rank change year-on-year +99 -148 +7
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 56 149 408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.15% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.18% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 38 126 241
10th Percentile £37,350 £37,500 £40,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,998 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £49,329 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +52.04% -14.21% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £60,741 £72,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £76,875 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +7.14%

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 51,770 84,704 95,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.86% 85.53% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,375 59,701 56,503
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Top 12 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 15 May 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 +73 49 £75,000 +42.86% 79
UK excluding London +117 28 £50,000 +5.26% 58
London +86 26 £85,000 +34.68% 31
Work from Home +87 23 £75,000 +51.52% 35
Midlands +47 15 £75,000 +52.04% 4
West Midlands +42 15 £75,000 +76.47% 3
North of England +45 6 £45,000 -10.00% 14
North West -7 5 £47,500 +5.56% 5
Scotland +114 3 £40,000 -15.79% 4
South East +78 2 £49,250 +3.68% 20
Wales +33 2 - - 1
Yorkshire +61 1 £29,750 -40.50% 7

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 1 (1.79%) CICS
1 1 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (42.86%) Azure
2 18 (32.14%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (23.21%) GitHub
4 11 (19.64%) AWS
5 10 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (16.07%) SaaS
7 7 (12.50%) IaaS
7 7 (12.50%) PaaS
7 7 (12.50%) Power Platform
8 3 (5.36%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (5.36%) Power Automate
8 3 (5.36%) PowerApps
9 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.57%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (1.79%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.79%) GCP
10 1 (1.79%) Sentry
10 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) 3GPP
1 4 (7.14%) 5G
2 3 (5.36%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.93%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.36%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.57%) Power BI
4 1 (1.79%) DB2
4 1 (1.79%) MySQL
4 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (30.36%) Selenium
2 13 (23.21%) Postman
3 9 (16.07%) JMeter
4 7 (12.50%) SonarQube
5 6 (10.71%) WebDriver
6 5 (8.93%) Cypress.io
6 5 (8.93%) SoapUI
7 4 (7.14%) Appium
7 4 (7.14%) Git
7 4 (7.14%) Jenkins
7 4 (7.14%) JIRA
7 4 (7.14%) SpecFlow
8 3 (5.36%) Mocha
8 3 (5.36%) MSTest
8 3 (5.36%) NUnit
9 2 (3.57%) LoadRunner
9 2 (3.57%) NeoLoad
9 2 (3.57%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (1.79%) TestNG
10 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (23.21%) Finance
1 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.64%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.14%) Law
3 4 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.57%) Military
5 1 (1.79%) Banking
5 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.79%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (21.43%) Tester
2 9 (16.07%) Developer
3 8 (14.29%) Senior
4 7 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Test Manager
5 6 (10.71%) Lead
5 6 (10.71%) Software Tester
5 6 (10.71%) Test Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Automation Tester
6 5 (8.93%) Software Developer
7 4 (7.14%) .NET Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Python Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) QA Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Senior .NET Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Test Leader
8 3 (5.36%) QA Leader
9 2 (3.57%) Finance Manager
9 2 (3.57%) Test Programme Manager
9 2 (3.57%) Workday Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (23.21%) Playwright
2 9 (16.07%) .NET
3 8 (14.29%) XML
4 7 (12.50%) ARM Templates
4 7 (12.50%) Azure Blueprints
5 4 (7.14%) .NET Framework
5 4 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 4 (7.14%) ASP.NET
5 4 (7.14%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (7.14%) CSS
5 4 (7.14%) Entity Framework
5 4 (7.14%) HTML
5 4 (7.14%) JSON
5 4 (7.14%) LINQ
6 3 (5.36%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (5.36%) Jest
6 3 (5.36%) pytest
6 3 (5.36%) Swagger
6 3 (5.36%) Web Services
6 3 (5.36%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 7 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 6 (10.71%) Low-Code
3 5 (8.93%) Mobile App
4 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.57%) Derivative
5 2 (3.57%) Equities
5 2 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.57%) FPGA
5 2 (3.57%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.79%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.79%) NHS
6 1 (1.79%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (1.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (69.64%) Test Automation
2 26 (46.43%) DevOps
3 25 (44.64%) Functional Testing
4 21 (37.50%) Agile
5 19 (33.93%) Software Testing
6 17 (30.36%) Test Scripting
7 16 (28.57%) Manual Testing
8 14 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 14 (25.00%) Security Testing
9 13 (23.21%) Deployment Automation
9 13 (23.21%) Test Strategy
10 12 (21.43%) Mentoring
10 12 (21.43%) Regression Testing
11 11 (19.64%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (17.86%) Containerisation
12 10 (17.86%) Scrum
12 10 (17.86%) Software Engineering
12 10 (17.86%) Test Management
12 10 (17.86%) Test Planning
13 9 (16.07%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.93%) Python
2 15 (26.79%) C#
3 12 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 9 (16.07%) SQL
5 7 (12.50%) Java
6 5 (8.93%) TypeScript
7 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.57%) C++
9 1 (1.79%) COBOL
9 1 (1.79%) JCL
9 1 (1.79%) REXX
Qualifications
1 12 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (17.86%) ISTQB
3 8 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (12.50%) Degree
5 6 (10.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
7 2 (3.57%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (37.50%) QA
2 11 (19.64%) NCSC
3 7 (12.50%) Accessibility
4 3 (5.36%) Data Quality
4 3 (5.36%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (17.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (19.64%) Kubernetes
2 8 (14.29%) Terraform
3 7 (12.50%) Ansible
4 1 (1.79%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.57%) Charles River
3 1 (1.79%) Databricks
3 1 (1.79%) FIS
3 1 (1.79%) Google
3 1 (1.79%) Siebel
3 1 (1.79%) Splunk
3 1 (1.79%) UiPath
3 1 (1.79%) Workday