Functional Testing Job Trends in Wales

Functional Testing
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Functional Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 - 111
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.060% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% - 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 - £33,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.73%
75th Percentile £54,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,148 473 1,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 68.62% 87.59% 76.97%
Number of salaries quoted 742 282 1,060
10th Percentile £29,050 £30,125 £26,725
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £50,447 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +12.10% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,369 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% -10.57%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Functional Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Functional Testing job vacancy trend in Wales

Functional Testing
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Functional Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the Wales region over the 6 months to 7 May 2026. 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
South Wales - 1 £52,000 - 1
Functional Testing
UK

Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) MSTest
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft