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 requiring Non-Functional Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 - 107
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 8 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.34% - 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% - 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £39,221 - -
25th Percentile £44,493 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £40,808
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.25%
75th Percentile £56,438 - -
90th Percentile £65,325 - -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +11.61% -2.61%

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,507 580 1,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.43% 83.82% 69.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,107 415 1,074
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,197 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £34,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,669 £50,124 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% +11.39% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,487 £77,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,888 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.47% +3.43% -8.71%

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 job vacancy trend in Wales

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Trend in Wales

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

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

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in Wales over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Non-Functional Testing in Wales

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 18 July 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 - 5 £52,000 -
West Wales - 3 £47,500 -
Non-Functional Testing
UK

Non-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 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) AWS
4 4 (50.00%) GitHub
5 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (37.50%) Serverless
6 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (12.50%) BrowserStack
6 1 (12.50%) GCP
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Selenium
2 6 (75.00%) Cypress.io
3 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
4 4 (50.00%) Postman
4 4 (50.00%) REST Assured
5 3 (37.50%) GitLab
5 3 (37.50%) JIRA
5 3 (37.50%) JMeter
5 3 (37.50%) JUnit
5 3 (37.50%) Newman
5 3 (37.50%) TestRail
5 3 (37.50%) Zephyr
6 2 (25.00%) Git
7 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
7 1 (12.50%) MSTest
7 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
7 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Automation Tester
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
1 3 (37.50%) Test Leader
1 3 (37.50%) Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Automation Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Playwright
2 4 (50.00%) Node.js
3 3 (37.50%) Jest
3 3 (37.50%) React
3 3 (37.50%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (37.50%) Spring
3 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Mainframe
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) Test Strategy
3 6 (75.00%) DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) Security Testing
5 3 (37.50%) BDD
5 3 (37.50%) Data Strategy
5 3 (37.50%) Defect Tracking
5 3 (37.50%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Integration Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Kanban
5 3 (37.50%) Microservices
5 3 (37.50%) Operational Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (37.50%) Resilience Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (37.50%) Scrum
5 3 (37.50%) Test Management
5 3 (37.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (37.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) Ruby
3 2 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (37.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (37.50%) QA
2 3 (37.50%) WCAG
3 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft