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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 667 765 613
Rank change year-on-year +98 -152 -11
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 42 147 382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.076% 0.14% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.17% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 29 122 228
10th Percentile £36,800 £37,500 £39,166
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £60,741 £72,500
90th Percentile £103,250 £78,625 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £48,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.74% -3.50% +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 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -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 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Top 11 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 30 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 +75 39 £75,000 +36.36% 207
UK excluding London +129 22 £45,000 -6.74% 207
Work from Home +67 19 £75,000 +36.36% 119
London +88 18 £85,000 +30.77% 27
Midlands +67 14 £75,000 +52.04% 33
West Midlands +44 14 £75,000 +27.16% 19
North of England +39 5 £37,375 -25.25% 49
North West +1 4 £45,000 - 20
Scotland +117 2 - - 10
South East +67 1 £38,000 -20.00% 64
Yorkshire +56 1 £29,750 -40.50% 22

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 (2.38%) CICS
1 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (42.86%) Azure
2 13 (30.95%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (28.57%) GitHub
4 10 (23.81%) AWS
5 8 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (19.05%) SaaS
6 6 (14.29%) IaaS
6 6 (14.29%) PaaS
7 5 (11.90%) Power Platform
8 3 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (7.14%) Power Automate
8 3 (7.14%) PowerApps
9 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (4.76%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (2.38%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.38%) GCP
10 1 (2.38%) Sentry
10 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) 3GPP
1 4 (9.52%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
1 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.76%) Power BI
3 1 (2.38%) DB2
3 1 (2.38%) MySQL
3 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (28.57%) Selenium
2 8 (19.05%) Postman
3 7 (16.67%) JMeter
4 6 (14.29%) SonarQube
5 5 (11.90%) WebDriver
6 4 (9.52%) Appium
6 4 (9.52%) Cypress.io
6 4 (9.52%) SpecFlow
7 3 (7.14%) JIRA
7 3 (7.14%) Mocha
7 3 (7.14%) MSTest
7 3 (7.14%) NUnit
7 3 (7.14%) SoapUI
8 2 (4.76%) Git
8 2 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
9 1 (2.38%) Gatling
9 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
9 1 (2.38%) NeoLoad
9 1 (2.38%) TestComplete
General
1 10 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (23.81%) Finance
1 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.52%) Law
3 4 (9.52%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.76%) Military
5 1 (2.38%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Tester
2 7 (16.67%) Developer
3 6 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Test Manager
4 5 (11.90%) Lead
4 5 (11.90%) Senior
4 5 (11.90%) Software Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Software Tester
5 4 (9.52%) Automation Tester
5 4 (9.52%) Test Leader
6 3 (7.14%) QA Leader
7 2 (4.76%) .NET Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Finance Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Programme Test Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Programme Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Test Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Test Programme Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Workday Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) Playwright
2 7 (16.67%) .NET
3 6 (14.29%) ARM Templates
3 6 (14.29%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (7.14%) Jest
4 3 (7.14%) Swagger
4 3 (7.14%) Web Services
4 3 (7.14%) WebdriverIO
4 3 (7.14%) XML
5 2 (4.76%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.76%) ASP.NET
5 2 (4.76%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (4.76%) Entity Framework
5 2 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (4.76%) LINQ
6 1 (2.38%) CSS
6 1 (2.38%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.38%) React
6 1 (2.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 6 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 4 (9.52%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.14%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.38%) Derivative
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.38%) Equities
4 1 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.38%) FPGA
4 1 (2.38%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.38%) NHS
4 1 (2.38%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (64.29%) Test Automation
2 21 (50.00%) Functional Testing
3 19 (45.24%) DevOps
4 17 (40.48%) Agile
5 16 (38.10%) Software Testing
6 14 (33.33%) Test Scripting
7 12 (28.57%) CI/CD
8 11 (26.19%) Manual Testing
8 11 (26.19%) Test Strategy
9 10 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (21.43%) Scrum
11 8 (19.05%) Project Management
11 8 (19.05%) Regression Testing
11 8 (19.05%) SDLC
11 8 (19.05%) Security Testing
11 8 (19.05%) Software Engineering
12 7 (16.67%) Defect Management
12 7 (16.67%) Test Management
12 7 (16.67%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) Python
2 11 (26.19%) C#
3 10 (23.81%) JavaScript
3 10 (23.81%) SQL
4 5 (11.90%) Java
4 5 (11.90%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.38%) C++
6 1 (2.38%) COBOL
6 1 (2.38%) JCL
6 1 (2.38%) REXX
Qualifications
1 10 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.05%) ISTQB
3 7 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 5 (11.90%) Degree
6 2 (4.76%) DBS Check
6 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (35.71%) QA
2 10 (23.81%) NCSC
3 3 (7.14%) Data Quality
3 3 (7.14%) GDPR
4 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (19.05%) Terraform
2 7 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 6 (14.29%) Ansible
4 1 (2.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) Charles River
2 2 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (2.38%) FIS
3 1 (2.38%) Google
3 1 (2.38%) Siebel
3 1 (2.38%) Splunk
3 1 (2.38%) UiPath
3 1 (2.38%) Workday