Non-Functional Testing Jobs in the West Midlands

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Non-Functional Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 220 257
Rank change year-on-year +43 +37 +4
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 15 29 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.35% 0.39% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.47% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11 29 5
10th Percentile - - £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +76.47% -5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile - £60,000 £53,750
90th Percentile - £86,485 £62,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +42.86% -8.70% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,940 6,110 6,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.25% 82.77% 96.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 4,547 3,160
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Non-Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in the West Midlands

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Non-Functional Testing in the West Midlands

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the West Midlands

Non-Functional Testing
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
Birmingham +38 5 £42,500 +6.25% 1
Non-Functional Testing
England

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
1 7 (46.67%) Azure DevOps
1 7 (46.67%) GitHub
1 7 (46.67%) GitHub Actions
1 7 (46.67%) IaaS
1 7 (46.67%) PaaS
1 7 (46.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) 3GPP
1 4 (26.67%) 5G
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) SonarQube
2 4 (26.67%) Selenium
2 4 (26.67%) WebDriver
3 3 (20.00%) Appium
4 1 (6.67%) JMeter
4 1 (6.67%) TestComplete
General
1 7 (46.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (26.67%) Telecoms
3 3 (20.00%) Law
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Tester
2 4 (26.67%) Tester
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) ARM Templates
1 7 (46.67%) Azure Blueprints
2 4 (26.67%) Playwright
3 3 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Management Information System
1 7 (46.67%) Onboarding
2 3 (20.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.67%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Cybersecurity
1 11 (73.33%) Test Automation
2 10 (66.67%) Functional Testing
3 8 (53.33%) DevOps
4 7 (46.67%) Containerisation
4 7 (46.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 7 (46.67%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (46.67%) DevSecOps
4 7 (46.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 7 (46.67%) Mentoring
4 7 (46.67%) Performance Analysis
4 7 (46.67%) Project Management
4 7 (46.67%) Release Management
4 7 (46.67%) Software Engineering
4 7 (46.67%) Static Application Security Testing
5 5 (33.33%) SDLC
6 4 (26.67%) Refactoring
6 4 (26.67%) Regression Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
6 4 (26.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) C#
3 3 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (73.33%) NCSC
2 4 (26.67%) QA
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Ansible
1 7 (46.67%) Kubernetes
1 7 (46.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) UiPath