Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 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 737 609 610
Rank change year-on-year -128 +1 -46
Permanent jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 147 402 824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.40% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.42% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 124 238 459
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,100 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,181 £72,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,375 £86,250 £90,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,250 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.10% +10.53% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 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%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-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 Non-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 -138 122 £55,000 -4.35% 35
UK excluding London -87 87 £48,250 -8.10% 24
Work from Home -26 71 £52,500 -8.70% 23
London -43 44 £65,000 - 17
Midlands -7 33 £49,329 +9.62% 4
West Midlands +30 28 £55,232 +22.74% 4
South East -16 20 £47,500 -13.64% 8
North of England +10 17 £50,000 - 4
North West +4 11 £45,000 -5.26% 4
Wales +15 9 £45,000 -6.25%
Yorkshire +58 5 £50,000 -6.98%
East Midlands -35 5 £49,329 +19.59%
South West -38 4 £57,500 +27.25% 2
Scotland -71 3 £47,500 -20.83% 2
East of England -4 1 - - 3
North East -8 1 £57,965 +8.85%

Non-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 4 (2.72%) OpenZeppelin
2 3 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.36%) Confluence
3 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.68%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.72%) BASE24
2 3 (2.04%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 57 (38.78%) Azure
2 32 (21.77%) AWS
3 23 (15.65%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (12.93%) GitHub
5 15 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (10.20%) PaaS
5 15 (10.20%) SaaS
6 9 (6.12%) IaaS
7 4 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.04%) Contentful
8 3 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (1.36%) GCP
9 2 (1.36%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.68%) Firebase
10 1 (0.68%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.72%) IPFS
1 4 (2.72%) Wireless
2 2 (1.36%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.93%) Relational Database
2 9 (6.12%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.40%) DynamoDB
3 5 (3.40%) Redis
4 4 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.72%) InfluxDB
4 4 (2.72%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.72%) NonStop SQL
4 4 (2.72%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.04%) Big Data
6 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.68%) MySQL
6 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (17.01%) Postman
2 24 (16.33%) Selenium
3 18 (12.24%) JMeter
4 15 (10.20%) JIRA
4 15 (10.20%) WebDriver
5 13 (8.84%) Cucumber
5 13 (8.84%) LoadRunner
6 12 (8.16%) SoapUI
7 11 (7.48%) NUnit
7 11 (7.48%) Visual Studio
8 9 (6.12%) GitLab
8 9 (6.12%) SonarQube
9 7 (4.76%) Cypress.io
10 5 (3.40%) Gatling
10 5 (3.40%) Jenkins
10 5 (3.40%) MSTest
11 4 (2.72%) Appium
11 4 (2.72%) Git
11 4 (2.72%) Hardhat
11 4 (2.72%) NeoLoad
General
1 26 (17.69%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.65%) Public Sector
3 21 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.61%) Finance
5 15 (10.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (6.80%) Police
7 7 (4.76%) Banking
8 4 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.72%) Law
8 4 (2.72%) Marketing
8 4 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.72%) Retail
8 4 (2.72%) Welsh Language
9 3 (2.04%) Legal
10 2 (1.36%) Electronics
10 2 (1.36%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (1.36%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.36%) Wearables
11 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (23.81%) Senior
2 32 (21.77%) Test Engineer
3 29 (19.73%) Analyst
4 27 (18.37%) Test Analyst
5 23 (15.65%) Tester
6 18 (12.24%) Senior Test Engineer
7 15 (10.20%) Lead
8 9 (6.12%) Developer
8 9 (6.12%) QA Engineer
8 9 (6.12%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (4.76%) Performance Tester
9 7 (4.76%) QA Tester
9 7 (4.76%) Senior Test Analyst
9 7 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
9 7 (4.76%) Test Manager
10 5 (3.40%) Agile Tester
10 5 (3.40%) QA Leader
10 5 (3.40%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.40%) Test Leader
11 4 (2.72%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.65%) .NET
2 20 (13.61%) XML
3 17 (11.56%) JSON
4 14 (9.52%) .NET Core
5 13 (8.84%) Node.js
5 13 (8.84%) Web Services
6 9 (6.12%) ARM Templates
6 9 (6.12%) Azure Blueprints
6 9 (6.12%) REST
6 9 (6.12%) SOAP
7 7 (4.76%) ASP.NET
7 7 (4.76%) Spring
7 7 (4.76%) Spring Boot
8 6 (4.08%) React
8 6 (4.08%) WebdriverIO
9 4 (2.72%) ERC20
9 4 (2.72%) Middleware
9 4 (2.72%) Smart Contracts
9 4 (2.72%) Truffle
9 4 (2.72%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.24%) Management Information System
1 18 (12.24%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.80%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.40%) FMCG
4 5 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.72%) Blockchain
5 4 (2.72%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.72%) NFT
5 4 (2.72%) Replication
5 4 (2.72%) Web3
6 3 (2.04%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.36%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.36%) IoT
7 2 (1.36%) PMI
8 1 (0.68%) Clustering
8 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.08%) Windows
2 5 (3.40%) Unix
3 2 (1.36%) Android
3 2 (1.36%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (65.99%) Test Automation
2 85 (57.82%) Agile
3 74 (50.34%) Functional Testing
4 62 (42.18%) Software Testing
5 53 (36.05%) DevOps
6 47 (31.97%) Test Strategy
7 35 (23.81%) CI/CD
8 32 (21.77%) Software Engineering
9 31 (21.09%) Test Scripting
9 31 (21.09%) User Acceptance Testing
10 29 (19.73%) Performance Testing
11 26 (17.69%) Mentoring
11 26 (17.69%) Regression Testing
12 25 (17.01%) SDLC
13 24 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (15.65%) API Testing
15 22 (14.97%) BDD
16 20 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (13.61%) Continuous Integration
16 20 (13.61%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (23.13%) C#
1 34 (23.13%) SQL
2 20 (13.61%) Java
2 20 (13.61%) JavaScript
3 16 (10.88%) Python
4 7 (4.76%) C
4 7 (4.76%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.40%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.72%) Rust
6 4 (2.72%) Solidity
6 4 (2.72%) VB
7 3 (2.04%) Scala
8 2 (1.36%) C++
9 1 (0.68%) Groovy
9 1 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (13.61%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.93%) ISTQB
3 17 (11.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (9.52%) Degree
5 9 (6.12%) ISEB
6 5 (3.40%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.72%) GIAC
8 2 (1.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.36%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.36%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.68%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (34.69%) QA
2 24 (16.33%) Accessibility
3 9 (6.12%) NCSC
4 2 (1.36%) GDPR
4 2 (1.36%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.36%) IEC 62304
4 2 (1.36%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 20 (13.61%) Docker
2 2 (1.36%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (1.36%) Firmware
3 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.80%) Grafana
3 9 (6.12%) Ansible
3 9 (6.12%) Terraform
4 5 (3.40%) Kibana
5 1 (0.68%) HP SiteScope
5 1 (0.68%) Perfmon
5 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 20 (13.61%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.52%) Oracle
3 7 (4.76%) Splunk
4 6 (4.08%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.40%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.40%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.72%) Foundry
6 4 (2.72%) HP
7 3 (2.04%) Databricks
7 3 (2.04%) Micro Focus
7 3 (2.04%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.36%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.36%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.36%) iManage
8 2 (1.36%) Intapp
9 1 (0.68%) Citrix
9 1 (0.68%) Google
9 1 (0.68%) New Relic