Non-Functional Testing Contracts in the North of England

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 187 216
Rank change year-on-year +18 +29 -77
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 15 21 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.32% 0.37% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.41% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 19
10th Percentile £383 £378 £350
25th Percentile £413 £525 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +26.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £513 £625 £581
90th Percentile £538 - £638
England median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £90.00 -
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,996 5,176 6,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.49% 90.65% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,432 3,584 4,621
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.40%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 204 263
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.08 £13.88
Median hourly rate £17.72 £28.85 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.58% +51.84% +3.15%
75th Percentile £45.00 £45.05 £36.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £62.18
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in the North of England

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in the North of England

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the North of England

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in the North of England

Non-Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +22 10 £475 -20.83% 3
North East +15 3 £410 -25.45%
Yorkshire +15 2 £425 -24.44% 1
Non-Functional Testing
England

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) BrowserStack
3 1 (6.67%) Firebase
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
3 1 (6.67%) SpeedCurve
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Crashlytics
1 1 (6.67%) Gradle
1 1 (6.67%) JMeter
1 1 (6.67%) NeoLoad
1 1 (6.67%) Pa11y
1 1 (6.67%) Selenium
1 1 (6.67%) TestCafe
General
1 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Senior
2 5 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Test Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Test Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Tester
5 2 (13.33%) Functional Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Functional Test Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Telephony Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Test Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Android Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Automation Tester
6 1 (6.67%) Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Lead
6 1 (6.67%) Performance Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Performance Test Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Performance Test Leader
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Android Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Playwright
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (6.67%) Dagger
2 1 (6.67%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (46.67%) Test Automation
2 6 (40.00%) Functional Testing
3 4 (26.67%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) Load Testing
3 4 (26.67%) SDLC
3 4 (26.67%) Security Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Active Listening
4 3 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 3 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 3 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 3 (20.00%) Validation
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Microservices
5 2 (13.33%) Performance Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Test Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) C#
1 4 (26.67%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (13.33%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) C
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
4 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Google