The first table below looks at the demand for the Non-Functional Tester role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Non-Functional Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Non Functional Tester
Rank - 560 564
Contract jobs requiring a Non-Functional Tester 0 13 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK - 0.022% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.024% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 10 8
Average daily rate - £388 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -0.64%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £270 £213
% change year-on-year
- +27.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42921 54032 55868
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.62% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24602 29796 30366
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2138 2561 2889
Average hourly rate £18.53 £18.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.20% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.74 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Non-Functional Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Non-Functional Tester within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Non-Functional Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Non-Functional Tester
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Non-Functional Tester within the UK.

Non-Functional Tester Daily Rate Trend

Non-Functional Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Non-Functional Tester within the UK.

Non-Functional Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Non-Functional Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Non-Functional Tester in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Non-Functional Tester in their job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Test Scripting
2 4 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Open Source
2 4 (40.00%) Hudson
2 4 (40.00%) Stress Testing
2 4 (40.00%) JMeter
2 4 (40.00%) Ajax
2 4 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (40.00%) SOAP
2 4 (40.00%) XML
2 4 (40.00%) UNIX
2 4 (40.00%) HTTP
3 3 (30.00%) Java
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) HTTPS
3 3 (30.00%) Linux
3 3 (30.00%) OpenSTA
3 3 (30.00%) soapUI
4 2 (20.00%) Use Case
4 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (10.00%) Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (10.00%) QA
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management

Non-Functional Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Non-Functional Tester in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Non-Functional Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (40.00%) SOAP
1 4 (40.00%) XML
1 4 (40.00%) Ajax
2 3 (30.00%) soapUI
3 1 (10.00%) XSLT
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) HTTP
2 3 (30.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (10.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (40.00%) JMeter
1 4 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 4 (40.00%) Hudson
2 3 (30.00%) OpenSTA
3 1 (10.00%) Rational Performance Tester
General
1 1 (10.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Open Source
2 1 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (10.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) UNIX
2 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Test Scripting
2 4 (40.00%) Stress Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (20.00%) Use Case
4 1 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Load Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (10.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) OpenView
1 1 (10.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle
1 1 (10.00%) IBM
1 1 (10.00%) HP