Functional Testing Jobs with Work from Home Options

Functional Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 474 443 422
Rank change year-on-year -31 -21 -38
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 115 215 561
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.54% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.56% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 93 155 205
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,524 £38,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -9.57% +21.05%
75th Percentile £62,200 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £85,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.31% -3.04% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,879 38,524 69,675
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.94% 96.06% 97.07%
Number of salaries quoted 23,365 26,722 41,465
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Functional Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Functional Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Functional Testing
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Functional Testing over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.22%) Confluence
2 3 (2.61%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 26 (22.61%) Azure
2 18 (15.65%) AWS
3 16 (13.91%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (11.30%) GitHub
4 13 (11.30%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (11.30%) PaaS
5 11 (9.57%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (7.83%) IaaS
6 9 (7.83%) SaaS
7 6 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (1.74%) GCP
10 1 (0.87%) BigCommerce
10 1 (0.87%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.35%) Internet
2 4 (3.48%) Wireless
3 1 (0.87%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.48%) Redis
2 3 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (2.61%) Big Data
2 3 (2.61%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.87%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 21 (18.26%) JIRA
2 11 (9.57%) Cucumber
2 11 (9.57%) Selenium
3 9 (7.83%) SonarQube
4 6 (5.22%) Postman
5 5 (4.35%) Appium
6 4 (3.48%) GitLab
7 3 (2.61%) JUnit
7 3 (2.61%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (2.61%) TestNG
8 2 (1.74%) HP UFT
8 2 (1.74%) JMeter
8 2 (1.74%) LoadRunner
8 2 (1.74%) MSTest
8 2 (1.74%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.74%) TestRail
8 2 (1.74%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.87%) Grunt
9 1 (0.87%) gulp
9 1 (0.87%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (16.52%) Finance
2 18 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (15.65%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (12.17%) Public Sector
5 13 (11.30%) Police
6 12 (10.43%) Legal
7 10 (8.70%) Electronics
8 5 (4.35%) Banking
8 5 (4.35%) Manufacturing
8 5 (4.35%) Marketing
9 4 (3.48%) Retail
10 3 (2.61%) Local Government
10 3 (2.61%) Publishing
11 2 (1.74%) Back Office
11 2 (1.74%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (1.74%) Law
11 2 (1.74%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (33.91%) Senior
2 37 (32.17%) Analyst
3 29 (25.22%) Test Analyst
4 18 (15.65%) Developer
5 13 (11.30%) Senior Developer
6 12 (10.43%) .NET Developer
7 9 (7.83%) Test Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) QA Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) Senior .NET Developer
9 7 (6.09%) Senior Manager
10 6 (5.22%) Product Manager
10 6 (5.22%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (5.22%) Senior Product Manager
11 5 (4.35%) Agile Tester
11 5 (4.35%) Embedded Software Developer
11 5 (4.35%) QA Tester
11 5 (4.35%) Senior Software Developer
11 5 (4.35%) Senior Test Analyst
11 5 (4.35%) Software Developer
11 5 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.43%) .NET
2 9 (7.83%) ARM Templates
2 9 (7.83%) Azure Blueprints
2 9 (7.83%) Kafka
2 9 (7.83%) MSMQ
2 9 (7.83%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (6.09%) Spring
3 7 (6.09%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.48%) ADO
4 4 (3.48%) CSS
4 4 (3.48%) HTML
4 4 (3.48%) Node.js
4 4 (3.48%) Web Services
4 4 (3.48%) WebdriverIO
5 3 (2.61%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (2.61%) EDI
5 3 (2.61%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (2.61%) Next.js
5 3 (2.61%) React
5 3 (2.61%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 27 (23.48%) Product Ownership
2 21 (18.26%) Management Information System
3 15 (13.04%) Algorithms
3 15 (13.04%) Data Structures
4 13 (11.30%) Onboarding
5 11 (9.57%) Video\Live Streaming
6 7 (6.09%) Cloud Native
7 5 (4.35%) IoT
8 4 (3.48%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.61%) Graphic Design
9 3 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.61%) PMI
10 2 (1.74%) BBC
10 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.74%) PKI
10 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.74%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.87%) Android
1 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (55.65%) Software Testing
2 57 (49.57%) Agile
3 53 (46.09%) Test Automation
4 44 (38.26%) Non-Functional Testing
5 37 (32.17%) DevOps
6 35 (30.43%) User Acceptance Testing
7 34 (29.57%) Scrum
8 33 (28.70%) Regression Testing
9 32 (27.83%) Test Strategy
10 27 (23.48%) TDD
11 23 (20.00%) Software Engineering
11 23 (20.00%) User Experience
12 21 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (17.39%) Mentoring
14 18 (15.65%) Performance Testing
14 18 (15.65%) Roadmaps
15 17 (14.78%) CI/CD
15 17 (14.78%) Load Testing
16 16 (13.91%) Data Integration
17 15 (13.04%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.39%) C#
2 17 (14.78%) Python
3 16 (13.91%) Java
4 13 (11.30%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.22%) SQL
6 5 (4.35%) C
6 5 (4.35%) Embedded C
6 5 (4.35%) PHP
7 3 (2.61%) Scala
7 3 (2.61%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.74%) Go
8 2 (1.74%) Lua
8 2 (1.74%) Ruby
8 2 (1.74%) Rust
9 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (28.70%) Degree
2 18 (15.65%) Security Cleared
3 16 (13.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (6.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (6.96%) ISEB
5 7 (6.09%) ISTQB
6 6 (5.22%) CSPO
6 6 (5.22%) IIBA
6 6 (5.22%) Master's Degree
6 6 (5.22%) Numerate Degree
7 5 (4.35%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.61%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.87%) HND
10 1 (0.87%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (40.00%) QA
2 9 (7.83%) NCSC
3 4 (3.48%) GDPR
4 2 (1.74%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.74%) PMO
5 1 (0.87%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (11.30%) Docker
2 11 (9.57%) Firmware
3 10 (8.70%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (3.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (7.83%) Ansible
1 9 (7.83%) Kubernetes
1 9 (7.83%) Terraform
2 4 (3.48%) Grafana
2 4 (3.48%) Kibana
3 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (14.78%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.17%) ServiceNow
3 9 (7.83%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.48%) Splunk
5 3 (2.61%) Adobe
5 3 (2.61%) Databricks
6 1 (0.87%) Google
6 1 (0.87%) OpenLink