Non-Functional Testing Job Trends in Wales

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales citing Non-Functional Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 15 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	144	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing	6	0	0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales	0.17%	-	-
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.27%	-	-
Number of salaries quoted	5	0	0
10^th Percentile	£45,500	-	-
25^th Percentile	£46,250	-	-
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£47,500	-	-
75^th Percentile	£48,750	-	-
90^th Percentile	£52,350	-	-
UK median annual salary	£62,000	£61,250	£62,500
% change year-on-year	+1.22%	-2.00%	+13.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 citing process or methodology skills in Wales.

	6 months to 15 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing process or methodology skills	2,183	815	873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales	63.11%	81.58%	70.46%
Number of salaries quoted	1,482	597	500
10^th Percentile	£30,000	£25,087	£30,000
25^th Percentile	£37,500	£30,000	£35,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£52,222	£48,122	£47,500
Median % change year-on-year	+8.52%	+1.31%	+2.47%
75^th Percentile	£70,000	£60,000	£65,000
90^th Percentile	£80,000	£75,000	£73,384
UK median annual salary	£60,000	£55,000	£60,000
% change year-on-year	+9.09%	-8.33%	-

Non-Functional Testing Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Non-Functional Testing Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Non-Functional Testing.

Non-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 Non-Functional Testing within the Wales region over the 6 months to 15 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
West Wales	-	5	£47,500	-	1
South Wales	-	1	£51,500	-	2
Non-Functional Testing UK

Non-Functional Testing Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 15 November 2026, job vacancies citing Non-Functional Testing also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Wales region citing Non-Functional Testing.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Agile	100.0%	6
1	Azure	100.0%	6
1	Azure DevOps	100.0%	6
1	DevOps	100.0%	6
1	GitHub	100.0%	6
1	Selenium	100.0%	6
1	Test Automation	100.0%	6
1	Test Strategy	100.0%	6
1	Validation	100.0%	6
10	Accessibility	83.3%	5
10	AWS	83.3%	5
10	AWS Lambda	83.3%	5
10	CI/CD	83.3%	5
10	Community of Practice	83.3%	5
10	Cypress.io	83.3%	5
10	Data Strategy	83.3%	5
10	Defect Tracking	83.3%	5
10	End-to-End Testing	83.3%	5
10	GitHub Actions	83.3%	5
10	GitLab	83.3%	5
10	Integration Testing	83.3%	5
10	ISTQB	83.3%	5
10	ISTQB Advanced Certification	83.3%	5
10	Java	83.3%	5
10	Jenkins	83.3%	5
10	Jest	83.3%	5
10	JIRA	83.3%	5
10	JUnit	83.3%	5
10	Kanban	83.3%	5
10	Microservices	83.3%	5

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Agile	100.0%	6
1	DevOps	100.0%	6
1	Test Automation	100.0%	6
1	Test Strategy	100.0%	6
1	Validation	100.0%	6
6	CI/CD	83.3%	5
6	Community of Practice	83.3%	5
6	Data Strategy	83.3%	5
6	Defect Tracking	83.3%	5
6	End-to-End Testing	83.3%	5
6	Integration Testing	83.3%	5
6	Kanban	83.3%	5
6	Microservices	83.3%	5
6	Operational Acceptance Criteria	83.3%	5
6	Resilience Testing	83.3%	5
6	Root Cause Analysis	83.3%	5
6	Scrum	83.3%	5
6	Security Testing	83.3%	5
6	Test Management	83.3%	5
20	User-Centered Design (UCD)	50.0%	3