Non-Functional Testing Jobs with Work from Home Options

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
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 Non-Functional Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 463 499
Rank change year-on-year -62 +36 -61
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 71 175 410
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.45% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.47% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 61 112 225
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,600 £39,740
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,750 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +6.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £60,741 £78,382 £85,900
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Non-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 31,253 37,089 72,078
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.24% 96.02% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,514 26,211 41,851
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
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 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Non-Functional Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Non-Functional Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Non-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 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 a work from home option citing Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.23%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.63%) BASE24
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 23 (32.39%) AWS
2 22 (30.99%) Azure
3 16 (22.54%) GitHub
4 14 (19.72%) GitHub Actions
4 14 (19.72%) PaaS
5 13 (18.31%) SaaS
6 12 (16.90%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (14.08%) IaaS
8 3 (4.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) InfluxDB
1 4 (5.63%) MongoDB
1 4 (5.63%) NonStop SQL
1 4 (5.63%) Redis
2 3 (4.23%) Big Data
3 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (16.90%) Postman
2 11 (15.49%) JMeter
3 10 (14.08%) SonarQube
4 8 (11.27%) Cucumber
4 8 (11.27%) SoapUI
5 7 (9.86%) Selenium
6 5 (7.04%) WebDriver
7 4 (5.63%) GitLab
7 4 (5.63%) JIRA
8 3 (4.23%) LoadRunner
8 3 (4.23%) SpecFlow
8 3 (4.23%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.82%) Appium
9 2 (2.82%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.82%) Jenkins
9 2 (2.82%) JUnit
9 2 (2.82%) TestNG
9 2 (2.82%) TestRail
10 1 (1.41%) NeoLoad
10 1 (1.41%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (18.31%) Public Sector
2 12 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (15.49%) Finance
4 9 (12.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (12.68%) Social Skills
5 6 (8.45%) Banking
5 6 (8.45%) Police
6 4 (5.63%) Welsh Language
7 3 (4.23%) Legal
8 2 (2.82%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 22 (30.99%) Senior
2 21 (29.58%) Analyst
3 19 (26.76%) Test Engineer
4 18 (25.35%) Test Analyst
5 12 (16.90%) Senior Test Engineer
6 10 (14.08%) Tester
7 8 (11.27%) QA Engineer
7 8 (11.27%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (9.86%) QA Tester
9 5 (7.04%) Lead
9 5 (7.04%) Senior Test Analyst
10 4 (5.63%) Administrator
10 4 (5.63%) Agile Tester
10 4 (5.63%) BASE24 Administrator
10 4 (5.63%) Security Engineer
10 4 (5.63%) Senior Tester
10 4 (5.63%) Systems Administrator
10 4 (5.63%) Systems Analyst
10 4 (5.63%) Systems Test Analyst
11 3 (4.23%) Senior QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.08%) ARM Templates
1 10 (14.08%) Azure Blueprints
2 6 (8.45%) Spring
2 6 (8.45%) Spring Boot
3 5 (7.04%) Gherkin
4 4 (5.63%) Node.js
4 4 (5.63%) OAuth
4 4 (5.63%) OAuth2
4 4 (5.63%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 4 (5.63%) SOAP
4 4 (5.63%) WebdriverIO
4 4 (5.63%) XML
5 3 (4.23%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (4.23%) Web Services
6 2 (2.82%) RESTful
7 1 (1.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.72%) Onboarding
2 12 (16.90%) Management Information System
3 9 (12.68%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.63%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.63%) Replication
5 3 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.82%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.41%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.41%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.04%) Unix
2 1 (1.41%) Linux
2 1 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (70.42%) Test Automation
2 45 (63.38%) Functional Testing
3 42 (59.15%) Agile
4 33 (46.48%) Software Testing
5 25 (35.21%) Test Strategy
6 24 (33.80%) Mentoring
7 23 (32.39%) Software Engineering
8 22 (30.99%) CI/CD
9 20 (28.17%) DevOps
10 18 (25.35%) Regression Testing
11 16 (22.54%) User Acceptance Testing
12 15 (21.13%) BDD
12 15 (21.13%) Performance Testing
13 14 (19.72%) Coaching
13 14 (19.72%) Containerisation
13 14 (19.72%) DevSecOps
14 13 (18.31%) Agile Testing
14 13 (18.31%) Load Testing
14 13 (18.31%) Scrum
15 12 (16.90%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.49%) SQL
2 10 (14.08%) Java
3 7 (9.86%) C#
3 7 (9.86%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.04%) Python
5 3 (4.23%) Scala
6 2 (2.82%) C
7 1 (1.41%) Groovy
7 1 (1.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (26.76%) Security Cleared
2 17 (23.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (19.72%) ISTQB
4 8 (11.27%) ISEB
5 7 (9.86%) Degree
6 5 (7.04%) SC Cleared
7 4 (5.63%) GIAC
8 3 (4.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (1.41%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (35.21%) QA
2 13 (18.31%) Accessibility
3 10 (14.08%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (19.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (14.08%) Ansible
1 10 (14.08%) Kubernetes
1 10 (14.08%) Terraform
2 9 (12.68%) Grafana
3 4 (5.63%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (14.08%) Oracle
2 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.63%) HP
3 4 (5.63%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.63%) Splunk
4 3 (4.23%) Databricks
4 3 (4.23%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.82%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.41%) OpenAI