Non-Functional Testing Contracts in England

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Non-Functional Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 420 440 431
Rank change year-on-year +20 -9 -55
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 122 202 398
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.42% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.47% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 153 297
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £419 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £666 £550
90th Percentile £625 £738 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £90.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +246.15% -26.24%
75th Percentile £82.50 - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £90.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.11% +252.94% -7.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,636 42,957 64,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.67% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,638 30,177 45,793
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,325 1,518 1,713
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in England

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in England.

Daily rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in England

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in England

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in England

Non-Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Non-Functional Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +44 73 £525 -8.70% 21
North of England +26 15 £475 -19.15% 5
South West +10 12 £585 +6.36% 4
North West +17 9 £475 -20.83% 4
Midlands +21 7 £341 -24.33% 3
South East -5 5 £538 +27.98% 6
East Midlands +12 4 £341 -26.38%
Yorkshire +16 3 £510 -9.33% 1
North East +13 3 £410 -
West Midlands +13 3 £363 -19.44% 3
South Coast - 3 £500 -
East of England +8 1 £475 -52.50% 1
Non-Functional Testing
UK

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (9.02%) Confluence
2 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.46%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.64%) IIS
4 2 (1.64%) JBoss
5 1 (0.82%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.82%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Mingle
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Endur
1 3 (2.46%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (2.46%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.46%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (2.46%) Oracle FAH
1 3 (2.46%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (2.46%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (2.46%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (2.46%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.82%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 31 (25.41%) Azure
2 21 (17.21%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (13.93%) AWS
4 9 (7.38%) BrowserStack
4 9 (7.38%) Firebase
5 8 (6.56%) BlazeMeter
5 8 (6.56%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (6.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 5 (4.10%) GCP
6 5 (4.10%) Tricentis Tosca
7 4 (3.28%) Azure API Management
8 3 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.46%) GitHub
8 3 (2.46%) Serverless
9 2 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.82%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.82%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.28%) Internet
2 3 (2.46%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.28%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (3.28%) NoSQL
1 4 (3.28%) Redis
1 4 (3.28%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.46%) DB2
2 3 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.46%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.82%) MySQL
3 1 (0.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (25.41%) JIRA
2 30 (24.59%) Postman
3 21 (17.21%) JMeter
4 18 (14.75%) Jenkins
5 17 (13.93%) LoadRunner
6 15 (12.30%) Selenium
7 14 (11.48%) Cypress.io
7 14 (11.48%) Git
7 14 (11.48%) Visual Studio
8 12 (9.84%) Appium
8 12 (9.84%) GitLab
9 11 (9.02%) Cucumber
10 7 (5.74%) Gatling
10 7 (5.74%) NUnit
11 6 (4.92%) JUnit
11 6 (4.92%) NeoLoad
12 5 (4.10%) WebDriver
13 4 (3.28%) Mockito
13 4 (3.28%) SoapUI
13 4 (3.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 37 (30.33%) Social Skills
2 33 (27.05%) Finance
3 21 (17.21%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.48%) Back Office
4 14 (11.48%) Banking
5 10 (8.20%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.10%) Law
6 5 (4.10%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.28%) Electronics
7 4 (3.28%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.28%) Legal
7 4 (3.28%) Wholesale Banking
8 3 (2.46%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.46%) Marketing
8 3 (2.46%) Retail
9 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Local Government
9 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (23.77%) Senior
2 27 (22.13%) Analyst
3 23 (18.85%) Test Analyst
4 22 (18.03%) Tester
5 18 (14.75%) Test Engineer
5 18 (14.75%) Test Manager
6 17 (13.93%) Lead
7 12 (9.84%) Senior Analyst
7 12 (9.84%) Senior Test Analyst
8 11 (9.02%) Senior Test Engineer
8 11 (9.02%) Test Leader
9 9 (7.38%) Automation Tester
9 9 (7.38%) QA Engineer
9 9 (7.38%) QA Tester
10 8 (6.56%) Developer
11 7 (5.74%) Test Automation Engineer
12 6 (4.92%) Performance Test Leader
12 6 (4.92%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
13 5 (4.10%) Scala Developer
14 4 (3.28%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.84%) Middleware
2 10 (8.20%) .NET
2 10 (8.20%) Playwright
2 10 (8.20%) WebdriverIO
3 8 (6.56%) AngularJS
4 7 (5.74%) GraphQL
4 7 (5.74%) Web Services
5 5 (4.10%) Gherkin
5 5 (4.10%) XML
6 4 (3.28%) Akka
6 4 (3.28%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.28%) JPA
6 4 (3.28%) Play Framework
6 4 (3.28%) RESTful
6 4 (3.28%) spray
6 4 (3.28%) Spring
6 4 (3.28%) Spring MVC
6 4 (3.28%) Swagger
7 3 (2.46%) ADO
7 3 (2.46%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.74%) Management Information System
1 7 (5.74%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.46%) Online Banking
4 2 (1.64%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.64%) Derivative
4 2 (1.64%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.64%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.82%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.82%) PMI
5 1 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.66%) Unix
2 10 (8.20%) Linux
3 8 (6.56%) Windows
4 5 (4.10%) Android
5 2 (1.64%) AIX
5 2 (1.64%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (59.02%) Agile
2 71 (58.20%) Test Automation
3 48 (39.34%) Performance Testing
4 44 (36.07%) Functional Testing
5 38 (31.15%) Test Strategy
6 31 (25.41%) DevOps
7 30 (24.59%) CI/CD
8 28 (22.95%) Continuous Integration
8 28 (22.95%) Scrum
9 24 (19.67%) Software Testing
9 24 (19.67%) Test Management
10 23 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (18.03%) BDD
11 22 (18.03%) Manual Testing
12 19 (15.57%) TDD
13 18 (14.75%) Kanban
13 18 (14.75%) Scenario Testing
14 17 (13.93%) Acceptance Criteria
14 17 (13.93%) Software Engineering
15 14 (11.48%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 27 (22.13%) SQL
2 22 (18.03%) Java
3 18 (14.75%) JavaScript
4 13 (10.66%) TypeScript
5 12 (9.84%) Python
6 11 (9.02%) C#
7 5 (4.10%) Kotlin
7 5 (4.10%) Scala
8 4 (3.28%) C
9 3 (2.46%) Bash
9 3 (2.46%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.82%) C++
10 1 (0.82%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (13.93%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.20%) ISTQB
4 7 (5.74%) Degree
5 3 (2.46%) ISEB
6 2 (1.64%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.64%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.64%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (31.15%) QA
2 15 (12.30%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.82%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (10.66%) Docker
2 1 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (5.74%) Grafana
2 6 (4.92%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.10%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.64%) Ansible
4 2 (1.64%) Terraform
4 2 (1.64%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.82%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.82%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.74%) CA Agile Central
2 7 (5.74%) Oracle
3 6 (4.92%) HP
3 6 (4.92%) IBM
4 5 (4.10%) Google
4 5 (4.10%) iManage
4 5 (4.10%) Intapp
4 5 (4.10%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.28%) SAP
5 4 (3.28%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.46%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.46%) Microgen
7 2 (1.64%) F5
8 1 (0.82%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.82%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.82%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.82%) Pega
8 1 (0.82%) Pegasus
8 1 (0.82%) VMware