Functional Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Functional Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Functional Testing over the 6 months to 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 473 317
Rank change year-on-year -89 -156 +77
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 204 280 823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.50% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.53% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 118 135 266
10th Percentile £33,552 £38,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,688 £42,500 £37,097
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £64,106
90th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £71,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £56,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.50% -1.74% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Functional Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63,035 53,281 70,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.55% 95.49% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 42,876 28,319 41,331
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.10%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Functional Testing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 June 2024. 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 East -2 66 £50,750 +8.56% 15
Midlands +7 52 £50,000 -9.09% 13
West Midlands +21 47 £50,000 -9.09% 6
North of England -5 43 £50,000 -13.04% 14
North West +1 27 £47,500 -17.39% 11
East of England -48 23 £62,500 +60.26% 11
Yorkshire +45 15 £50,000 -31.03% 2
South West -67 9 £40,000 -37.25% 10
Scotland -82 9 £35,776 -23.17% 6
East Midlands -37 5 £49,329 -29.53% 7
Wales +4 2 £33,000 -37.73% 1
North East -21 1 - - 1
Functional Testing
UK

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (5.88%) Confluence
2 3 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.47%) WordPress
3 1 (0.49%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.49%) WildFly
Applications
1 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 71 (34.80%) Azure
2 54 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (19.61%) Azure AI
3 40 (19.61%) IBM Cloud
4 21 (10.29%) AWS
5 13 (6.37%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (5.39%) GitHub
6 11 (5.39%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (5.39%) PaaS
6 11 (5.39%) SaaS
7 10 (4.90%) IaaS
8 6 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.47%) Contentful
10 2 (0.98%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.49%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.45%) Internet
2 4 (1.96%) Ethernet
2 4 (1.96%) RS-232
2 4 (1.96%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.96%) Wireless
3 1 (0.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.39%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.43%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.45%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.96%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.47%) Big Data
6 1 (0.49%) MS Access
6 1 (0.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (12.75%) JIRA
2 16 (7.84%) MSTest
2 16 (7.84%) Selenium
3 14 (6.86%) Postman
4 13 (6.37%) Git
4 13 (6.37%) JMeter
5 10 (4.90%) SonarQube
6 9 (4.41%) LoadRunner
7 8 (3.92%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.92%) SoapUI
8 7 (3.43%) Cypress.io
8 7 (3.43%) Visual Studio
9 6 (2.94%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (2.45%) HP UFT
10 5 (2.45%) Subversion
11 3 (1.47%) Appium
12 2 (0.98%) Bugzilla
12 2 (0.98%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.98%) REST Assured
General
1 50 (24.51%) Public Sector
2 44 (21.57%) Social Skills
3 43 (21.08%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (8.33%) Finance
6 10 (4.90%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.90%) Marketing
7 9 (4.41%) Legal
7 9 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.94%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.94%) Banking
8 6 (2.94%) Police
9 5 (2.45%) Retail
10 3 (1.47%) Publishing
11 2 (0.98%) Aviation
11 2 (0.98%) Electronics
11 2 (0.98%) Law
11 2 (0.98%) Military
11 2 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (19.12%) Senior
2 27 (13.24%) Analyst
3 23 (11.27%) Test Analyst
3 23 (11.27%) Test Engineer
4 21 (10.29%) Developer
5 13 (6.37%) Senior Developer
6 12 (5.88%) .NET Developer
7 9 (4.41%) Lead
8 8 (3.92%) QA Engineer
8 8 (3.92%) Senior .NET Developer
8 8 (3.92%) Software Developer
8 8 (3.92%) Test Leader
9 7 (3.43%) Senior Test Engineer
9 7 (3.43%) Test Manager
9 7 (3.43%) Tester
10 6 (2.94%) Author
10 6 (2.94%) Senior Manager
10 6 (2.94%) Software Engineer
10 6 (2.94%) Software Test Engineer
10 6 (2.94%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.25%) .NET
2 12 (5.88%) Web Services
3 11 (5.39%) REST
4 10 (4.90%) ARM Templates
4 10 (4.90%) Azure Blueprints
5 9 (4.41%) Kafka
5 9 (4.41%) MSMQ
5 9 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (3.43%) ASP.NET
6 7 (3.43%) ASP.NET Web API
6 7 (3.43%) React
6 7 (3.43%) WCF
7 6 (2.94%) SOAP
7 6 (2.94%) Spring
7 6 (2.94%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.45%) ADO
8 5 (2.45%) JSON
8 5 (2.45%) Node.js
8 5 (2.45%) XML
9 4 (1.96%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 40 (19.61%) Blockchain
1 40 (19.61%) Distributed Systems
1 40 (19.61%) Hybrid Cloud
2 38 (18.63%) Product Ownership
3 24 (11.76%) Management Information System
4 16 (7.84%) Algorithms
4 16 (7.84%) Data Structures
4 16 (7.84%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (7.35%) Mobile App
6 11 (5.39%) IoT
6 11 (5.39%) Onboarding
6 11 (5.39%) Video\Live Streaming
7 9 (4.41%) Graphic Design
8 6 (2.94%) Animation
9 4 (1.96%) CCTV
9 4 (1.96%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.96%) PMI
10 3 (1.47%) BBC
10 3 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 41 (20.10%) Linux
2 40 (19.61%) Alpine Linux
2 40 (19.61%) CentOS
2 40 (19.61%) Debian
3 6 (2.94%) Windows
4 1 (0.49%) Android
4 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (44.61%) Test Automation
2 84 (41.18%) Agile
3 82 (40.20%) DevOps
4 81 (39.71%) Software Testing
5 61 (29.90%) CI/CD
6 49 (24.02%) Non-Functional Testing
7 42 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (20.59%) Technology Transformation
7 42 (20.59%) Test Strategy
8 40 (19.61%) Artificial Intelligence
8 40 (19.61%) Co-Creation
8 40 (19.61%) Data Science
8 40 (19.61%) Scrum
8 40 (19.61%) Separation of Concerns
8 40 (19.61%) Task Automation
9 36 (17.65%) Regression Testing
9 36 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
10 34 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 34 (16.67%) Test Scripting
11 33 (16.18%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 37 (18.14%) C#
2 25 (12.25%) SQL
3 16 (7.84%) Python
4 13 (6.37%) Java
5 12 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.41%) C
7 6 (2.94%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.45%) Embedded C
8 5 (2.45%) PHP
9 4 (1.96%) VB
10 3 (1.47%) Scala
10 3 (1.47%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.49%) C++
11 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 43 (21.08%) Degree
2 40 (19.61%) Azure Certification
2 40 (19.61%) MCSA
2 40 (19.61%) MCSE
2 40 (19.61%) Microsoft Certification
3 25 (12.25%) Security Cleared
4 24 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (8.82%) ISTQB
6 14 (6.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (5.39%) SC Cleared
8 8 (3.92%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.94%) CSPO
9 6 (2.94%) CTC Cleared
9 6 (2.94%) IIBA
10 5 (2.45%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.96%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (1.96%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (1.96%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.98%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.98%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (20.10%) QA
2 10 (4.90%) NCSC
3 4 (1.96%) PMO
4 1 (0.49%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (26.96%) Docker
2 4 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.47%) Firmware
4 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (26.47%) Kubernetes
2 50 (24.51%) Terraform
3 10 (4.90%) Ansible
4 1 (0.49%) Grafana
4 1 (0.49%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.49%) Kibana
4 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 41 (20.10%) IBM
1 41 (20.10%) Red Hat
2 30 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.35%) Salesforce
4 11 (5.39%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.47%) Adobe
5 3 (1.47%) Databricks
6 2 (0.98%) Google
6 2 (0.98%) Splunk
7 1 (0.49%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.49%) HP
7 1 (0.49%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.49%) VMware