Non-Functional Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 332 369 314
Rank change year-on-year +37 -55 -46
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 56 84 202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.36% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.40% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 64 144
10th Percentile £358 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £590 £575 £517
90th Percentile £615 £625 £546
UK median daily rate £530 £545 £475
% change year-on-year -2.75% +14.74% +5.56%
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £90.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +157.14% +34.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,300 21,032 27,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.50% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,532 18,929
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,281 1,348
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.05
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.92
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Non-Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Non-Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South West +15 16 £590 +7.27% 2
North of England +18 15 £475 -20.83% 4
North West +22 10 £475 -20.83% 3
Scotland +38 7 £625 +53.56% 1
Midlands +25 6 £363 -19.44% 1
South East 0 4 £525 +27.27% 5
East Midlands +23 3 £363 -21.62%
West Midlands +15 3 £363 -19.44% 1
North East +15 3 £410 -25.45%
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Wales +21 2 £363 -
Yorkshire +15 2 £425 -24.44% 1
Isle of Man - 2 - -
East of England +7 1 £475 -38.71%
Non-Functional Testing
UK

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (5.36%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle FAH
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.79%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.00%) Azure
2 12 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (19.64%) AWS
4 4 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (5.36%) GCP
6 2 (3.57%) GitHub
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.79%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.79%) Firebase
7 1 (1.79%) Serverless
7 1 (1.79%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) PuTTY
2 1 (1.79%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (1.79%) GGSN
2 1 (1.79%) IPsec
2 1 (1.79%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) Big Data
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Selenium
2 8 (14.29%) JIRA
3 7 (12.50%) JMeter
4 6 (10.71%) Jenkins
5 5 (8.93%) Git
5 5 (8.93%) NUnit
5 5 (8.93%) Postman
5 5 (8.93%) Visual Studio
6 3 (5.36%) Cypress.io
6 3 (5.36%) JUnit
6 3 (5.36%) LoadRunner
6 3 (5.36%) Toad
7 2 (3.57%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.79%) GitLab
8 1 (1.79%) Gradle
8 1 (1.79%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.79%) Pa11y
8 1 (1.79%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.79%) TestCafe
8 1 (1.79%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (28.57%) Finance
2 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 11 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.50%) Banking
5 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
6 4 (7.14%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.79%) Electronics
7 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.79%) Marketing
7 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (33.93%) Senior
1 19 (33.93%) Test Engineer
2 14 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 12 (21.43%) Test Manager
4 10 (17.86%) Lead
5 8 (14.29%) Analyst
6 7 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
7 6 (10.71%) Test Leader
7 6 (10.71%) Tester
8 5 (8.93%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) Test Analyst
9 2 (3.57%) Automation Tester
9 2 (3.57%) Financial Analyst
9 2 (3.57%) Functional Analyst
9 2 (3.57%) Functional Test Analyst
9 2 (3.57%) Oracle Analyst
9 2 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (3.57%) Senior Test Analyst
9 2 (3.57%) SEO Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) Playwright
2 6 (10.71%) .NET
3 5 (8.93%) AngularJS
3 5 (8.93%) GraphQL
4 2 (3.57%) Web Services
5 1 (1.79%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (1.79%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.79%) Dagger
5 1 (1.79%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (1.79%) Node.js
5 1 (1.79%) React
5 1 (1.79%) SOAP
5 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.36%) Online Banking
1 3 (5.36%) Public Cloud
2 2 (3.57%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.57%) Equities
2 2 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.79%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.71%) Windows
2 3 (5.36%) Unix
3 1 (1.79%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (44.64%) Functional Testing
1 25 (44.64%) Test Automation
2 23 (41.07%) Test Strategy
3 17 (30.36%) Agile
4 16 (28.57%) DevOps
5 14 (25.00%) Performance Testing
5 14 (25.00%) Test Management
6 13 (23.21%) Security Testing
7 11 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (19.64%) Software Testing
8 10 (17.86%) CI/CD
8 10 (17.86%) Integration Testing
8 10 (17.86%) Load Testing
9 9 (16.07%) Migration
9 9 (16.07%) Test Scripting
10 8 (14.29%) BDD
10 8 (14.29%) SDLC
11 7 (12.50%) Defect Management
11 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.64%) SQL
2 8 (14.29%) Java
2 8 (14.29%) TypeScript
3 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.93%) Python
5 4 (7.14%) C#
6 3 (5.36%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.57%) Bash
7 2 (3.57%) C
8 1 (1.79%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 15 (26.79%) Security Cleared
2 13 (23.21%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.50%) ISTQB
4 6 (10.71%) Degree
5 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.36%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.57%) ISEB
6 2 (3.57%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (1.79%) CCNA
7 1 (1.79%) CCNP
7 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.64%) Accessibility
2 8 (14.29%) QA
3 2 (3.57%) PMO
4 1 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (3.57%) Grafana
3 1 (1.79%) Kibana
3 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) Oracle
2 3 (5.36%) Google
2 3 (5.36%) Microgen
3 2 (3.57%) SAP
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.79%) Pega