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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 746 595 603
Rank change year-on-year -151 +8 -42
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 152 416 794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.41% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.43% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 129 246 452
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,543 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,998 £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 £72,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,500 £86,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -

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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
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 10 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 10 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 -126 127 £52,500 -8.70% 21
UK excluding London -88 90 £47,500 -9.52% 15
Work from Home -51 71 £49,500 -13.91% 13
London -41 46 £63,112 -2.90% 8
Midlands -14 34 £49,329 +9.62% 1
West Midlands +17 29 £42,500 -12.82% 1
South East -16 20 £47,500 -13.64% 5
North of England +18 17 £50,000 -9.09% 6
North West +6 11 £45,000 -18.18% 5
Wales +13 9 £45,000 -6.25%
South West -32 6 £57,500 +31.15% 2
Yorkshire +62 5 £50,000 -16.67% 1
East Midlands -31 5 £49,329 +31.54%
Scotland -67 3 £47,500 -20.83% 1
East of England +8 1 - -
North East -13 1 £57,965 +8.85%

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 (2.63%) OpenZeppelin
2 3 (1.97%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.66%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.66%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.63%) BASE24
2 3 (1.97%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (38.16%) Azure
2 34 (22.37%) AWS
3 23 (15.13%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (11.84%) GitHub
5 14 (9.21%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (9.21%) PaaS
5 14 (9.21%) SaaS
6 8 (5.26%) IaaS
7 5 (3.29%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.97%) Contentful
8 3 (1.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (1.32%) GCP
9 2 (1.32%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.66%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.66%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.66%) Firebase
10 1 (0.66%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.63%) IPFS
1 4 (2.63%) Wireless
2 2 (1.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 10 (6.58%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.29%) DynamoDB
3 5 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.29%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.29%) Redis
4 4 (2.63%) InfluxDB
4 4 (2.63%) NonStop SQL
4 4 (2.63%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.97%) Big Data
6 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.32%) MySQL
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.66%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.66%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.66%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (16.45%) Postman
1 25 (16.45%) Selenium
2 18 (11.84%) JMeter
3 16 (10.53%) Cucumber
4 15 (9.87%) JIRA
4 15 (9.87%) WebDriver
5 13 (8.55%) LoadRunner
6 12 (7.89%) SoapUI
7 11 (7.24%) NUnit
7 11 (7.24%) Visual Studio
8 9 (5.92%) GitLab
9 8 (5.26%) Cypress.io
9 8 (5.26%) SonarQube
10 5 (3.29%) Gatling
10 5 (3.29%) Git
10 5 (3.29%) Jenkins
10 5 (3.29%) MSTest
11 4 (2.63%) Appium
11 4 (2.63%) Hardhat
11 4 (2.63%) NeoLoad
General
1 25 (16.45%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.13%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (14.47%) Finance
4 21 (13.82%) Public Sector
5 17 (11.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (6.58%) Police
7 7 (4.61%) Banking
8 5 (3.29%) Marketing
9 4 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.63%) Law
9 4 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.63%) Retail
9 4 (2.63%) Welsh Language
10 3 (1.97%) Legal
11 2 (1.32%) Electronics
11 2 (1.32%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (1.32%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.32%) Wearables
12 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 34 (22.37%) Senior
2 32 (21.05%) Test Engineer
3 30 (19.74%) Analyst
4 28 (18.42%) Test Analyst
5 24 (15.79%) Tester
6 18 (11.84%) Senior Test Engineer
7 14 (9.21%) Lead
8 11 (7.24%) QA Engineer
9 9 (5.92%) Developer
9 9 (5.92%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (4.61%) Performance Tester
10 7 (4.61%) QA Tester
10 7 (4.61%) Senior Test Analyst
10 7 (4.61%) Test Automation Engineer
10 7 (4.61%) Test Manager
11 5 (3.29%) Agile Tester
11 5 (3.29%) QA Leader
11 5 (3.29%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.29%) Service Manager
11 5 (3.29%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.13%) .NET
2 20 (13.16%) XML
3 17 (11.18%) JSON
4 14 (9.21%) .NET Core
4 14 (9.21%) Web Services
5 13 (8.55%) Node.js
6 10 (6.58%) REST
7 9 (5.92%) SOAP
7 9 (5.92%) Spring
7 9 (5.92%) Spring Boot
8 8 (5.26%) ARM Templates
8 8 (5.26%) Azure Blueprints
9 7 (4.61%) ASP.NET
10 6 (3.95%) React
10 6 (3.95%) WebdriverIO
11 5 (3.29%) Middleware
12 4 (2.63%) Gherkin
12 4 (2.63%) OAuth
12 4 (2.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 4 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.18%) Management Information System
1 17 (11.18%) Onboarding
2 12 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.61%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.29%) FMCG
4 5 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.63%) Blockchain
5 4 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.63%) NFT
5 4 (2.63%) Replication
5 4 (2.63%) Web3
6 3 (1.97%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.97%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.32%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.32%) IoT
8 1 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.66%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.95%) Windows
2 5 (3.29%) Unix
3 2 (1.32%) Android
3 2 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (65.13%) Test Automation
2 89 (58.55%) Agile
3 77 (50.66%) Functional Testing
4 64 (42.11%) Software Testing
5 55 (36.18%) DevOps
6 48 (31.58%) Test Strategy
7 39 (25.66%) CI/CD
8 33 (21.71%) User Acceptance Testing
9 32 (21.05%) Test Scripting
10 31 (20.39%) Software Engineering
11 29 (19.08%) Performance Testing
12 26 (17.11%) Mentoring
12 26 (17.11%) Regression Testing
12 26 (17.11%) SDLC
13 25 (16.45%) BDD
14 24 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (15.13%) API Testing
15 23 (15.13%) Scrum
16 22 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (13.82%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 35 (23.03%) C#
1 35 (23.03%) SQL
2 23 (15.13%) Java
3 20 (13.16%) JavaScript
4 18 (11.84%) Python
5 7 (4.61%) C
5 7 (4.61%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.29%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.63%) Rust
7 4 (2.63%) Scala
7 4 (2.63%) Solidity
7 4 (2.63%) VB
8 2 (1.32%) C++
9 1 (0.66%) Groovy
9 1 (0.66%) Perl
9 1 (0.66%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (13.16%) ISTQB
2 19 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (8.55%) Degree
5 11 (7.24%) ISEB
6 5 (3.29%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.63%) GIAC
8 3 (1.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.32%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.66%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.66%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (35.53%) QA
2 25 (16.45%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.26%) NCSC
4 2 (1.32%) GDPR
4 2 (1.32%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.32%) IEC 62304
4 2 (1.32%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 20 (13.16%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (1.32%) Firmware
3 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (9.21%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.58%) Grafana
3 8 (5.26%) Ansible
3 8 (5.26%) Terraform
4 5 (3.29%) Kibana
5 1 (0.66%) HP SiteScope
5 1 (0.66%) Perfmon
5 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (13.82%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.87%) Oracle
3 8 (5.26%) Splunk
4 6 (3.95%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.29%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.29%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.63%) Databricks
6 4 (2.63%) Foundry
6 4 (2.63%) HP
7 3 (1.97%) Micro Focus
7 3 (1.97%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.32%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.32%) iManage
8 2 (1.32%) Intapp
9 1 (0.66%) Citrix
9 1 (0.66%) Google
9 1 (0.66%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.66%) New Relic