Functional Testing Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Functional Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Functional Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Functional Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 471 453
Rank change year-on-year +102 -18 -8
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 28 121 230
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.36% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.39% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 20 98 169
10th Percentile £40,825 £37,500 £41,200
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,188 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.19% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,200 £72,500
90th Percentile - £63,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Functional Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Functional Testing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Functional Testing
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Functional Testing.

Functional Testing salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Functional Testing
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Functional Testing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Functional Testing salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.57%) Magento
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (3.57%) SAP APO
1 1 (3.57%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (32.14%) SaaS
3 8 (28.57%) AWS
3 8 (28.57%) GitHub
3 8 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (28.57%) IaaS
3 8 (28.57%) PaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) SonarQube
2 7 (25.00%) Selenium
3 4 (14.29%) Appium
3 4 (14.29%) WebDriver
4 2 (7.14%) Cypress.io
4 2 (7.14%) LabVIEW
5 1 (3.57%) JIRA
5 1 (3.57%) JMeter
5 1 (3.57%) JUnit
5 1 (3.57%) LoadRunner
5 1 (3.57%) SpecFlow
5 1 (3.57%) TestComplete
5 1 (3.57%) TestRail
General
1 8 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Law
4 3 (10.71%) Finance
5 2 (7.14%) Electronics
5 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.14%) Military
5 2 (7.14%) Retail
6 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Software Tester
2 6 (21.43%) Tester
3 4 (14.29%) Lead
4 3 (10.71%) Automation Tester
4 3 (10.71%) Test Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Test Leader
5 2 (7.14%) Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Development Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Development Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Test Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Test Development Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Automation Test Lead
6 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Web Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) ARM Templates
1 8 (28.57%) Azure Blueprints
2 5 (17.86%) Playwright
3 4 (14.29%) .NET
4 2 (7.14%) Node.js
4 2 (7.14%) React
5 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.57%) CSS
5 1 (3.57%) HTML
5 1 (3.57%) Next.js
5 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.57%) RESTful
5 1 (3.57%) Svelte
5 1 (3.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Management Information System
1 8 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 4 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.14%) Analogue Electronics
4 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.57%) EPoS
4 1 (3.57%) Life Science
4 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 15 (53.57%) Non-Functional Testing
3 11 (39.29%) DevOps
4 10 (35.71%) Project Management
4 10 (35.71%) Software Engineering
5 9 (32.14%) Deployment Automation
5 9 (32.14%) Release Management
5 9 (32.14%) Software Testing
5 9 (32.14%) Test Management
6 8 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 8 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
6 8 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (28.57%) DevSecOps
6 8 (28.57%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 8 (28.57%) Mentoring
6 8 (28.57%) Performance Analysis
6 8 (28.57%) Static Application Security Testing
6 8 (28.57%) Test Scripting
7 7 (25.00%) Regression Testing
8 6 (21.43%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) C#
2 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
2 5 (17.86%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) SQL
5 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (14.29%) ISTQB
4 2 (7.14%) CCA
4 2 (7.14%) DBS Check
4 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.57%) CISSP
5 1 (3.57%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) ISEB
5 1 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (35.71%) QA
2 8 (28.57%) NCSC
3 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.57%) GMP
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Kubernetes
2 8 (28.57%) Ansible
2 8 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Mentor Graphics
2 2 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (3.57%) Cognos
3 1 (3.57%) Concur
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.57%) UiPath