Non-Functional Testing Contracts

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 470 404
Rank change year-on-year +18 -66 -11
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 142 250 552
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.42% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.47% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 190 406
10th Percentile £386 £363 £363
25th Percentile £431 £429 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £545 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +14.74% +4.68%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £538
90th Percentile £650 £738 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £470
% change year-on-year - +6.38% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £90.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +157.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 April 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
England +17 115 £525 -4.55% 29
London +39 63 £550 -4.35% 14
Work from Home +83 59 £570 +18.75% 15
UK excluding London +32 55 £500 - 18
South West +15 17 £578 +5.00% 1
North of England +25 12 £463 -22.92% 5
North West +24 9 £475 -20.83% 4
Scotland +29 7 £625 +53.56% 3
South East +1 7 £413 -0.90% 6
Midlands +20 4 £425 -5.56% 3
West Midlands +29 3 £363 -19.44% 2
North East +21 3 £410 -25.45%
Wales +15 2 £363 -
Isle of Man - 2 - -
East Midlands +18 1 £500 +8.11% 1
East of England +7 1 £475 -32.14%

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 6 (4.23%) Confluence
2 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.82%) IIS
3 4 (2.82%) JBoss
3 4 (2.82%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.11%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (3.52%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.41%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Endur
1 3 (2.11%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (2.11%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.11%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (2.11%) Oracle FAH
1 3 (2.11%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (2.11%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (2.11%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (2.11%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.70%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 35 (24.65%) Azure
2 29 (20.42%) AWS
2 29 (20.42%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (10.56%) SaaS
4 12 (8.45%) GitHub
5 10 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (7.04%) IaaS
5 10 (7.04%) PaaS
6 6 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (4.23%) Serverless
7 5 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.52%) BrowserStack
7 5 (3.52%) Firebase
8 4 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.82%) BlazeMeter
8 4 (2.82%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 4 (2.82%) Tricentis Tosca
9 2 (1.41%) GCP
10 1 (0.70%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.70%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.82%) Internet
2 3 (2.11%) Diameter Protocol
2 3 (2.11%) GGSN
2 3 (2.11%) IPsec
2 3 (2.11%) PuTTY
2 3 (2.11%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.52%) DB2
2 4 (2.82%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (2.82%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.82%) Redis
3 3 (2.11%) Big Data
3 3 (2.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.70%) MySQL
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (23.24%) JIRA
2 20 (14.08%) Selenium
3 16 (11.27%) Jenkins
4 14 (9.86%) Cucumber
4 14 (9.86%) JMeter
4 14 (9.86%) Postman
5 13 (9.15%) LoadRunner
6 12 (8.45%) Cypress.io
7 11 (7.75%) Git
7 11 (7.75%) Visual Studio
8 10 (7.04%) SonarQube
9 7 (4.93%) Appium
9 7 (4.93%) GitLab
10 6 (4.23%) SpecFlow
11 5 (3.52%) Gatling
11 5 (3.52%) NUnit
12 4 (2.82%) Mockito
12 4 (2.82%) NeoLoad
12 4 (2.82%) Vagrant
12 4 (2.82%) WebDriver
General
1 42 (29.58%) Finance
2 36 (25.35%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.56%) Public Sector
5 14 (9.86%) Banking
6 10 (7.04%) Back Office
6 10 (7.04%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.52%) Electronics
7 5 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.52%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.52%) Marketing
8 4 (2.82%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.82%) Law
8 4 (2.82%) Wholesale Banking
9 3 (2.11%) Legal
10 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (21.83%) Senior
2 24 (16.90%) Test Engineer
3 23 (16.20%) Lead
3 23 (16.20%) Test Manager
4 22 (15.49%) Tester
5 20 (14.08%) Analyst
6 17 (11.97%) Test Analyst
7 16 (11.27%) Test Leader
8 14 (9.86%) Senior Test Engineer
9 9 (6.34%) QA Engineer
10 8 (5.63%) Developer
11 7 (4.93%) Senior Analyst
11 7 (4.93%) Senior Test Analyst
11 7 (4.93%) Test Automation Engineer
12 6 (4.23%) Architect
12 6 (4.23%) QA Tester
13 5 (3.52%) Project Manager
13 5 (3.52%) QA Test Engineer
13 5 (3.52%) Scala Developer
14 4 (2.82%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.04%) ARM Templates
1 10 (7.04%) Azure Blueprints
2 8 (5.63%) Middleware
3 7 (4.93%) .NET
3 7 (4.93%) Web Services
4 6 (4.23%) AngularJS
4 6 (4.23%) Jest
4 6 (4.23%) Playwright
5 5 (3.52%) Gherkin
5 5 (3.52%) GraphQL
5 5 (3.52%) Node.js
5 5 (3.52%) RESTful
5 5 (3.52%) WebdriverIO
5 5 (3.52%) XML
6 4 (2.82%) Akka
6 4 (2.82%) Hibernate
6 4 (2.82%) JPA
6 4 (2.82%) spray
6 4 (2.82%) Spring
6 4 (2.82%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.97%) Management Information System
2 10 (7.04%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (4.23%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.82%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.11%) Online Banking
6 2 (1.41%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.41%) Derivative
6 2 (1.41%) Equities
6 2 (1.41%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.70%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.70%) PMI
7 1 (0.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.97%) Unix
2 12 (8.45%) Windows
3 11 (7.75%) Linux
4 5 (3.52%) Android
5 4 (2.82%) AIX
5 4 (2.82%) Solaris
6 2 (1.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 62 (43.66%) Functional Testing
3 55 (38.73%) Agile
4 45 (31.69%) Test Strategy
5 40 (28.17%) DevOps
5 40 (28.17%) Performance Testing
6 29 (20.42%) Test Management
7 26 (18.31%) CI/CD
7 26 (18.31%) Project Management
8 25 (17.61%) BDD
9 24 (16.90%) Mentoring
9 24 (16.90%) Scenario Testing
10 22 (15.49%) Continuous Integration
10 22 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (15.49%) Software Testing
11 19 (13.38%) Integration Testing
11 19 (13.38%) Scrum
11 19 (13.38%) Test Scripting
12 18 (12.68%) Migration
12 18 (12.68%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (20.42%) SQL
2 22 (15.49%) Java
3 13 (9.15%) JavaScript
4 12 (8.45%) Python
4 12 (8.45%) TypeScript
5 11 (7.75%) C#
6 5 (3.52%) Scala
7 3 (2.11%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.11%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.41%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.70%) C
9 1 (0.70%) C++
9 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (26.76%) Security Cleared
2 34 (23.94%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.15%) ISTQB
4 11 (7.75%) Degree
5 10 (7.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (4.93%) ISEB
7 4 (2.82%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.11%) CCNA
8 3 (2.11%) CCNP
8 3 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.11%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.41%) ISEB Practitioner
10 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (22.54%) QA
2 17 (11.97%) Accessibility
3 10 (7.04%) NCSC
4 7 (4.93%) PMO
5 1 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (15.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (11.27%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.45%) Ansible
3 11 (7.75%) Terraform
4 7 (4.93%) Grafana
5 5 (3.52%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.82%) Tivoli
7 3 (2.11%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.70%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (11.27%) Oracle
2 12 (8.45%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.63%) HP
4 7 (4.93%) IBM
5 6 (4.23%) CA Agile Central
5 6 (4.23%) SAP
6 5 (3.52%) AppDynamics
7 4 (2.82%) F5
7 4 (2.82%) iManage
7 4 (2.82%) Intapp
7 4 (2.82%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.11%) Microgen
9 2 (1.41%) Google
9 2 (1.41%) Micro Focus
9 2 (1.41%) OpenText
9 2 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.70%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.70%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.70%) Pegasus
10 1 (0.70%) VMware