Functional Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 619 522 351
Rank change year-on-year -97 -171 +120
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 276 535 1,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.54% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.56% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 180 291 545
10th Percentile £33,722 £38,250 £34,550
25th Percentile £42,063 £44,898 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £62,200 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £70,250 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Functional Testing.

Salary trend for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 May 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
England -77 259 £50,000 -9.09% 89
UK excluding London -70 206 £50,000 -9.09% 61
Work from Home -5 118 £55,000 +10.00% 34
South East +12 65 £49,000 -2.00% 20
London -42 61 £52,500 -8.70% 28
Midlands +15 52 £50,000 -9.09% 11
West Midlands +52 47 £50,000 - 5
North of England +13 45 £50,000 -13.04% 10
North West +5 28 £47,500 -17.39% 8
East of England -30 23 £62,500 +60.26% 12
Yorkshire +59 16 £50,000 -27.27% 2
South West -40 11 £40,000 -36.00% 7
Scotland -78 8 £35,776 -25.90% 1
East Midlands -34 5 £49,329 -29.53% 6
Wales +9 2 £33,000 -37.73% 1
North East -7 1 - -

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.35%) Confluence
2 3 (1.09%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.09%) WordPress
3 1 (0.36%) Appian
3 1 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 88 (31.88%) Azure
2 63 (22.83%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (14.49%) IBM Cloud
4 28 (10.14%) AWS
5 19 (6.88%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (5.07%) GitHub
6 14 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (5.07%) PaaS
7 10 (3.62%) SaaS
8 9 (3.26%) IaaS
9 6 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.09%) Contentful
10 3 (1.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (0.72%) GCP
11 2 (0.72%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.72%) Serverless
12 1 (0.36%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.36%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.36%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.36%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.90%) Wireless
2 5 (1.81%) Internet
3 4 (1.45%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.45%) RS-232
3 4 (1.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.36%) HTTP
4 1 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.99%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.26%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.81%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.81%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.81%) Redis
5 4 (1.45%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.09%) Big Data
7 2 (0.72%) Power BI
8 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.36%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.36%) MS Access
8 1 (0.36%) MySQL
8 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 42 (15.22%) JIRA
2 27 (9.78%) Selenium
3 20 (7.25%) Postman
4 16 (5.80%) MSTest
5 15 (5.43%) Cucumber
5 15 (5.43%) Git
6 13 (4.71%) JMeter
7 11 (3.99%) SoapUI
8 10 (3.62%) LoadRunner
8 10 (3.62%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (3.26%) SonarQube
10 7 (2.54%) Bitbucket
11 6 (2.17%) Cypress.io
11 6 (2.17%) Subversion
11 6 (2.17%) Visual Studio
12 5 (1.81%) Appium
12 5 (1.81%) GitLab
12 5 (1.81%) HP UFT
13 4 (1.45%) JUnit
13 4 (1.45%) TestNG
General
1 64 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 61 (22.10%) Public Sector
3 51 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.51%) Finance
5 23 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (6.52%) Police
7 13 (4.71%) Electronics
7 13 (4.71%) Legal
8 12 (4.35%) Marketing
9 10 (3.62%) Manufacturing
9 10 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (3.26%) Retail
11 6 (2.17%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.81%) Banking
13 4 (1.45%) Law
14 3 (1.09%) Local Government
14 3 (1.09%) Publishing
15 2 (0.72%) Military
15 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.72%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 61 (22.10%) Analyst
2 59 (21.38%) Senior
3 51 (18.48%) Test Analyst
4 29 (10.51%) Developer
4 29 (10.51%) Test Engineer
5 19 (6.88%) Senior Developer
6 14 (5.07%) Tester
7 13 (4.71%) .NET Developer
8 12 (4.35%) Test Manager
9 10 (3.62%) QA Engineer
10 9 (3.26%) Senior .NET Developer
11 8 (2.90%) Lead
11 8 (2.90%) Senior Test Engineer
11 8 (2.90%) Software Developer
11 8 (2.90%) Software Engineer
12 7 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (2.54%) Senior Manager
12 7 (2.54%) Senior Software Developer
12 7 (2.54%) Software Test Engineer
12 7 (2.54%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.51%) .NET
2 12 (4.35%) REST
2 12 (4.35%) Web Services
3 10 (3.62%) Kafka
3 10 (3.62%) MSMQ
3 10 (3.62%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (3.62%) React
4 9 (3.26%) ARM Templates
4 9 (3.26%) Azure Blueprints
4 9 (3.26%) Node.js
5 8 (2.90%) ASP.NET Web API
6 7 (2.54%) ASP.NET
6 7 (2.54%) Spring
6 7 (2.54%) Spring Boot
6 7 (2.54%) WCF
7 6 (2.17%) SOAP
8 5 (1.81%) CSS
8 5 (1.81%) JSON
8 5 (1.81%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 5 (1.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (15.58%) Product Ownership
2 41 (14.86%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (14.49%) Blockchain
3 40 (14.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 29 (10.51%) Management Information System
5 19 (6.88%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (6.52%) Algorithms
6 18 (6.52%) Data Structures
7 17 (6.16%) Mobile App
8 14 (5.07%) Onboarding
9 13 (4.71%) IoT
10 12 (4.35%) Video\Live Streaming
11 9 (3.26%) Graphic Design
12 8 (2.90%) Cloud Native
13 6 (2.17%) Animation
13 6 (2.17%) BBC
13 6 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (1.45%) CCTV
14 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
14 4 (1.45%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 44 (15.94%) Linux
2 40 (14.49%) Alpine Linux
2 40 (14.49%) CentOS
2 40 (14.49%) Debian
3 5 (1.81%) Windows
4 1 (0.36%) Android
4 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (44.93%) Test Automation
2 121 (43.84%) Agile
2 121 (43.84%) Software Testing
3 104 (37.68%) DevOps
4 74 (26.81%) Non-Functional Testing
5 71 (25.72%) Regression Testing
6 70 (25.36%) CI/CD
6 70 (25.36%) User Acceptance Testing
7 66 (23.91%) Test Strategy
8 56 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (18.12%) Scrum
10 46 (16.67%) Performance Testing
11 43 (15.58%) Artificial Intelligence
11 43 (15.58%) Technology Transformation
11 43 (15.58%) Test Scripting
12 41 (14.86%) Co-Creation
13 40 (14.49%) Computer Science
13 40 (14.49%) Data Science
13 40 (14.49%) Separation of Concerns
13 40 (14.49%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 49 (17.75%) C#
2 33 (11.96%) SQL
3 32 (11.59%) Python
4 27 (9.78%) Java
5 21 (7.61%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.26%) C
7 6 (2.17%) PHP
8 5 (1.81%) Embedded C
8 5 (1.81%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.45%) C++
9 4 (1.45%) VB
10 3 (1.09%) Scala
10 3 (1.09%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.72%) Go
11 2 (0.72%) Lua
11 2 (0.72%) Ruby
11 2 (0.72%) Rust
12 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 69 (25.00%) Degree
2 40 (14.49%) Azure Certification
2 40 (14.49%) MCSA
2 40 (14.49%) MCSE
2 40 (14.49%) Microsoft Certification
3 29 (10.51%) Security Cleared
4 28 (10.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (7.25%) ISTQB
6 18 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (4.71%) SC Cleared
8 10 (3.62%) ISEB
8 10 (3.62%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.17%) CSPO
9 6 (2.17%) CTC Cleared
9 6 (2.17%) IIBA
9 6 (2.17%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (1.81%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.45%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (1.45%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (24.28%) QA
2 9 (3.26%) GDPR
2 9 (3.26%) NCSC
3 6 (2.17%) PMO
4 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.72%) IEC 62304
5 2 (0.72%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 62 (22.46%) Docker
2 15 (5.43%) Firmware
3 12 (4.35%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.36%) OpenSIPS
6 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (19.93%) Kubernetes
2 49 (17.75%) Terraform
3 9 (3.26%) Ansible
4 5 (1.81%) Grafana
4 5 (1.81%) Kibana
5 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.36%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 41 (14.86%) IBM
1 41 (14.86%) Red Hat
2 40 (14.49%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.80%) Salesforce
4 15 (5.43%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.17%) Google
5 6 (2.17%) Splunk
6 4 (1.45%) Databricks
7 3 (1.09%) Adobe
8 2 (0.72%) Oracle
9 1 (0.36%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.36%) HP
9 1 (0.36%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.36%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.36%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.36%) VMware