Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Non-Functional Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 755 597 612
Rank change year-on-year -158 +15 -64
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 155 426 784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.41% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.43% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 132 249 452
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,719 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,374 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £60,741 £72,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,750 £86,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £48,250
% change year-on-year -9.52% +8.81% +1.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Non-Functional Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,862 98,882 150,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,922 58,137 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,251 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,251
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Top 16 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 6 May 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 -113 129 £51,250 -10.87% 23
UK excluding London -88 92 £47,500 -9.52% 14
Work from Home -39 72 £50,000 -13.04% 12
London -40 47 £61,556 -5.30% 10
Midlands +16 34 £49,329 +9.62% 1
West Midlands +43 29 £42,500 -12.82% 1
South East -8 20 £47,500 -13.64% 4
North of England +25 18 £50,000 -9.09% 6
North West +21 11 £45,000 -18.18% 5
Wales +20 9 £45,000 -6.25%
South West -44 6 £57,500 +31.15% 1
Yorkshire +70 5 £50,000 -16.67% 1
East Midlands -29 5 £49,329 +31.54%
Scotland -73 4 £50,000 -16.67% 2
North East -14 2 £56,482 +6.07%
East of England +6 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 4 (2.58%) OpenZeppelin
2 3 (1.94%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.58%) BASE24
2 3 (1.94%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (37.42%) Azure
2 35 (22.58%) AWS
3 23 (14.84%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (12.26%) GitHub
5 15 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (9.03%) PaaS
6 14 (9.03%) SaaS
7 8 (5.16%) IaaS
8 5 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.94%) Contentful
9 3 (1.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.29%) GCP
10 2 (1.29%) Tricentis Tosca
11 1 (0.65%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.65%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.65%) Firebase
11 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.58%) IPFS
1 4 (2.58%) Wireless
2 2 (1.29%) HTTP
3 1 (0.65%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.26%) Relational Database
2 10 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.87%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.23%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.23%) Redis
5 4 (2.58%) InfluxDB
5 4 (2.58%) NonStop SQL
5 4 (2.58%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.94%) Big Data
6 3 (1.94%) MySQL
7 2 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.65%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (16.77%) Postman
2 25 (16.13%) Selenium
3 19 (12.26%) JMeter
4 17 (10.97%) Cucumber
5 15 (9.68%) JIRA
6 14 (9.03%) WebDriver
7 13 (8.39%) LoadRunner
8 11 (7.10%) NUnit
8 11 (7.10%) SoapUI
8 11 (7.10%) Visual Studio
9 10 (6.45%) GitLab
10 8 (5.16%) Cypress.io
10 8 (5.16%) SonarQube
11 6 (3.87%) Jenkins
12 5 (3.23%) Gatling
12 5 (3.23%) Git
12 5 (3.23%) MSTest
13 4 (2.58%) Appium
13 4 (2.58%) Hardhat
13 4 (2.58%) NeoLoad
General
1 25 (16.13%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (14.19%) Finance
4 21 (13.55%) Public Sector
5 17 (10.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (6.45%) Police
7 7 (4.52%) Banking
8 6 (3.87%) Marketing
9 4 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.58%) Law
9 4 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.58%) Retail
9 4 (2.58%) Welsh Language
10 2 (1.29%) Electronics
10 2 (1.29%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.29%) Legal
10 2 (1.29%) Wearables
11 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 34 (21.94%) Senior
2 33 (21.29%) Test Engineer
3 30 (19.35%) Analyst
4 28 (18.06%) Test Analyst
5 25 (16.13%) Tester
6 18 (11.61%) Senior Test Engineer
7 14 (9.03%) Lead
8 13 (8.39%) QA Engineer
9 9 (5.81%) Developer
9 9 (5.81%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (5.16%) QA Tester
10 8 (5.16%) Test Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.52%) Performance Tester
11 7 (4.52%) Senior Test Analyst
12 6 (3.87%) Test Manager
13 5 (3.23%) Agile Tester
13 5 (3.23%) QA Leader
13 5 (3.23%) Senior Developer
13 5 (3.23%) Service Manager
13 5 (3.23%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.84%) .NET
2 20 (12.90%) XML
3 17 (10.97%) JSON
4 14 (9.03%) .NET Core
4 14 (9.03%) Web Services
5 13 (8.39%) Node.js
6 12 (7.74%) REST
7 9 (5.81%) SOAP
7 9 (5.81%) Spring
7 9 (5.81%) Spring Boot
8 8 (5.16%) ARM Templates
8 8 (5.16%) Azure Blueprints
9 7 (4.52%) ASP.NET
10 6 (3.87%) React
10 6 (3.87%) WebdriverIO
11 5 (3.23%) Middleware
12 4 (2.58%) OAuth
12 4 (2.58%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 4 (2.58%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 4 (2.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.97%) Onboarding
2 16 (10.32%) Management Information System
3 12 (7.74%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.52%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.23%) FMCG
5 5 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.58%) Blockchain
6 4 (2.58%) NFT
6 4 (2.58%) Replication
6 4 (2.58%) Web3
7 3 (1.94%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.94%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.94%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.29%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.29%) IoT
9 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.87%) Windows
2 5 (3.23%) Unix
3 2 (1.29%) Android
3 2 (1.29%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (65.16%) Test Automation
2 91 (58.71%) Agile
3 77 (49.68%) Functional Testing
4 65 (41.94%) Software Testing
5 55 (35.48%) DevOps
6 48 (30.97%) Test Strategy
7 39 (25.16%) CI/CD
8 33 (21.29%) User Acceptance Testing
9 32 (20.65%) Test Scripting
10 31 (20.00%) Software Engineering
11 29 (18.71%) Performance Testing
12 27 (17.42%) SDLC
13 26 (16.77%) BDD
13 26 (16.77%) Regression Testing
14 25 (16.13%) Mentoring
15 24 (15.48%) API Testing
15 24 (15.48%) Scrum
16 23 (14.84%) Continuous Integration
16 23 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
17 21 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 36 (23.23%) C#
1 36 (23.23%) SQL
2 24 (15.48%) Java
3 21 (13.55%) JavaScript
4 18 (11.61%) Python
5 8 (5.16%) C
5 8 (5.16%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.23%) Scala
6 5 (3.23%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.58%) Rust
7 4 (2.58%) Solidity
7 4 (2.58%) VB
8 3 (1.94%) C++
9 1 (0.65%) Go
9 1 (0.65%) Groovy
9 1 (0.65%) Perl
9 1 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (12.90%) ISTQB
2 19 (12.26%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (8.39%) Degree
5 11 (7.10%) ISEB
6 5 (3.23%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.58%) GIAC
8 3 (1.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.29%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.65%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (36.13%) QA
2 25 (16.13%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.16%) NCSC
4 2 (1.29%) GDPR
4 2 (1.29%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.29%) IEC 62304
4 2 (1.29%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 21 (13.55%) Docker
2 2 (1.29%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (1.29%) Firmware
3 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.45%) Grafana
3 8 (5.16%) Ansible
3 8 (5.16%) Terraform
4 5 (3.23%) Kibana
5 1 (0.65%) Consul
5 1 (0.65%) HP SiteScope
5 1 (0.65%) Packer
5 1 (0.65%) Perfmon
5 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.68%) Oracle
3 8 (5.16%) Splunk
4 6 (3.87%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.23%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.58%) Databricks
6 4 (2.58%) Foundry
6 4 (2.58%) HP
7 3 (1.94%) Micro Focus
7 3 (1.94%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.29%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.29%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.29%) Google
8 2 (1.29%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.29%) iManage
8 2 (1.29%) Intapp
9 1 (0.65%) Citrix
9 1 (0.65%) New Relic