Non-Functional Testing Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 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 373 520 473
Rank change year-on-year +147 -47 +49
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 24 72 205
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.21% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.23% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 16 62 134
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,919 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £49,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +51.52% -13.91% -
75th Percentile - £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - £60,741 £78,382
UK median annual salary £75,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +50.00% -13.04% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 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%

Non-Functional Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Non-Functional Testing salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Non-Functional Testing salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Non-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 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 11 (45.83%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (41.67%) AWS
3 10 (41.67%) GitHub
3 10 (41.67%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (33.33%) IaaS
4 8 (33.33%) PaaS
4 8 (33.33%) SaaS
5 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.17%) GCP
7 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) 3GPP
1 4 (16.67%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) MySQL
1 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.17%) Power BI
1 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 5 (20.83%) Selenium
3 4 (16.67%) Appium
3 4 (16.67%) Postman
3 4 (16.67%) WebDriver
4 2 (8.33%) JMeter
4 2 (8.33%) SoapUI
5 1 (4.17%) Gatling
5 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.17%) LoadRunner
5 1 (4.17%) Locust
5 1 (4.17%) TestComplete
General
1 10 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Law
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Military
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Tester
3 5 (20.83%) Software Tester
4 4 (16.67%) Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Software Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Automation Tester
6 2 (8.33%) Senior
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Test Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Test Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Performance Tester
7 1 (4.17%) Test Assurance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 8 (33.33%) Azure Blueprints
2 4 (16.67%) .NET
2 4 (16.67%) Playwright
3 2 (8.33%) ADO
4 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 8 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 4 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.17%) Low-Code
4 1 (4.17%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Test Automation
2 15 (62.50%) Functional Testing
3 13 (54.17%) DevOps
4 12 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (41.67%) Mentoring
5 10 (41.67%) Project Management
5 10 (41.67%) Software Engineering
6 9 (37.50%) Test Management
7 8 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 8 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
7 8 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (33.33%) DevSecOps
7 8 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 8 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
7 8 (33.33%) Release Management
7 8 (33.33%) Software Testing
7 8 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
8 7 (29.17%) API Testing
8 7 (29.17%) Manual Testing
9 6 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) C#
3 4 (16.67%) Java
3 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (12.50%) ISTQB
4 2 (8.33%) DBS Check
4 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (50.00%) NCSC
2 8 (33.33%) QA
3 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
4 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Ansible
1 8 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 8 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Google
2 1 (4.17%) Splunk
2 1 (4.17%) UiPath