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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 469 403
Rank change year-on-year +17 -66 -12
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 140 250 540
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.43% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.48% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 186 399
10th Percentile £365 £363 £363
25th Percentile £431 £426 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £545 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +14.74% +5.56%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £538
90th Percentile £650 £738 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% +5.56%
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 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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 9 May 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 17 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 9 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
England +16 113 £510 -7.27% 21
London +23 63 £535 -6.96% 8
Work from Home +79 59 £550 +14.58% 13
UK excluding London +18 55 £513 +2.50% 15
South West +16 16 £590 +7.27% 2
North of England +22 14 £463 -22.92% 6
North West +14 9 £475 -20.83% 5
Scotland +36 7 £625 +53.56% 1
Midlands +30 6 £363 -19.44% 1
South East +4 4 £525 +27.27% 5
East Midlands +25 3 £363 -21.62%
West Midlands +20 3 £363 -19.44% 1
North East +13 3 £410 -25.45%
Wales +20 2 £363 -
Yorkshire +13 2 £425 -24.44% 1
Isle of Man - 2 - -
East of England +6 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 7 (5.00%) Confluence
2 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.86%) IIS
3 4 (2.86%) JBoss
4 3 (2.14%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.43%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.14%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.43%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Endur
1 3 (2.14%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (2.14%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.14%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (2.14%) Oracle FAH
1 3 (2.14%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (2.14%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (2.14%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (2.14%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 36 (25.71%) Azure
2 32 (22.86%) AWS
3 31 (22.14%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (8.57%) GitHub
4 12 (8.57%) SaaS
5 10 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (7.14%) IaaS
5 10 (7.14%) PaaS
6 7 (5.00%) BrowserStack
6 7 (5.00%) Firebase
7 6 (4.29%) BlazeMeter
7 6 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (4.29%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 6 (4.29%) Serverless
8 5 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.86%) GCP
9 4 (2.86%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.71%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.71%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.86%) Internet
2 3 (2.14%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.71%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (0.71%) GGSN
3 1 (0.71%) IPsec
3 1 (0.71%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.57%) DB2
2 4 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (2.86%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.86%) Redis
3 3 (2.14%) Big Data
3 3 (2.14%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.43%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.71%) MySQL
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (24.29%) JIRA
2 22 (15.71%) Postman
3 18 (12.86%) Jenkins
3 18 (12.86%) JMeter
3 18 (12.86%) Selenium
4 14 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 14 (10.00%) Cypress.io
5 13 (9.29%) Git
5 13 (9.29%) LoadRunner
5 13 (9.29%) Visual Studio
6 10 (7.14%) SonarQube
7 9 (6.43%) Appium
8 8 (5.71%) GitLab
9 7 (5.00%) NUnit
10 5 (3.57%) Gatling
10 5 (3.57%) SpecFlow
11 4 (2.86%) NeoLoad
11 4 (2.86%) ScalaTest
11 4 (2.86%) SoapUI
11 4 (2.86%) Vagrant
General
1 39 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 38 (27.14%) Finance
3 20 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 14 (10.00%) Banking
6 13 (9.29%) Back Office
7 7 (5.00%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.86%) Electronics
9 4 (2.86%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.86%) Law
9 4 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.86%) Marketing
9 4 (2.86%) Wholesale Banking
10 3 (2.14%) Legal
11 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Local Government
11 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (23.57%) Senior
2 26 (18.57%) Test Engineer
3 22 (15.71%) Analyst
3 22 (15.71%) Lead
3 22 (15.71%) Tester
4 21 (15.00%) Test Manager
5 19 (13.57%) Test Analyst
6 16 (11.43%) Senior Test Engineer
7 14 (10.00%) Test Leader
8 10 (7.14%) QA Engineer
9 9 (6.43%) Senior Analyst
9 9 (6.43%) Senior Test Analyst
9 9 (6.43%) Test Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.71%) QA Tester
11 7 (5.00%) Automation Tester
11 7 (5.00%) Developer
12 6 (4.29%) Architect
12 6 (4.29%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
13 5 (3.57%) QA Test Engineer
13 5 (3.57%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.14%) ARM Templates
1 10 (7.14%) Azure Blueprints
1 10 (7.14%) Playwright
2 9 (6.43%) .NET
2 9 (6.43%) Middleware
3 8 (5.71%) AngularJS
3 8 (5.71%) Web Services
4 7 (5.00%) GraphQL
4 7 (5.00%) WebdriverIO
5 6 (4.29%) XML
6 5 (3.57%) Gherkin
6 5 (3.57%) Jest
6 5 (3.57%) Node.js
6 5 (3.57%) RESTful
7 4 (2.86%) Akka
7 4 (2.86%) JPA
7 4 (2.86%) Play Framework
7 4 (2.86%) SOAP
7 4 (2.86%) spray
7 4 (2.86%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.14%) Management Information System
2 10 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.71%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.14%) Online Banking
6 3 (2.14%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.43%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.43%) Derivative
7 2 (1.43%) Equities
8 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.71%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.71%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.71%) Unix
2 12 (8.57%) Windows
3 11 (7.86%) Linux
4 6 (4.29%) Android
5 4 (2.86%) AIX
5 4 (2.86%) Solaris
6 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (56.43%) Test Automation
2 63 (45.00%) Agile
3 59 (42.14%) Functional Testing
4 45 (32.14%) Test Strategy
5 43 (30.71%) Performance Testing
6 42 (30.00%) DevOps
7 32 (22.86%) CI/CD
8 30 (21.43%) Test Management
9 27 (19.29%) BDD
10 26 (18.57%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (18.57%) Software Testing
11 24 (17.14%) Mentoring
11 24 (17.14%) Scrum
12 23 (16.43%) Project Management
12 23 (16.43%) Scenario Testing
13 22 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (14.29%) Manual Testing
14 20 (14.29%) Software Engineering
15 19 (13.57%) Integration Testing
16 18 (12.86%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 32 (22.86%) SQL
2 23 (16.43%) Java
3 15 (10.71%) JavaScript
3 15 (10.71%) TypeScript
4 11 (7.86%) Python
5 10 (7.14%) C#
6 5 (3.57%) Kotlin
6 5 (3.57%) Scala
7 3 (2.14%) C
7 3 (2.14%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.43%) Bash
9 1 (0.71%) C++
9 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 32 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.57%) ISTQB
4 11 (7.86%) Degree
5 10 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (5.00%) ISEB
7 3 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.14%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.43%) ISEB Practitioner
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.71%) CCNA
9 1 (0.71%) CCNP
9 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (25.71%) QA
2 17 (12.14%) Accessibility
3 10 (7.14%) NCSC
4 5 (3.57%) PMO
5 1 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (17.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.86%) Ansible
2 11 (7.86%) Terraform
3 7 (5.00%) Grafana
4 5 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.86%) Tivoli
6 3 (2.14%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.71%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (9.29%) Oracle
2 12 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.00%) IBM
4 6 (4.29%) CA Agile Central
4 6 (4.29%) HP
5 5 (3.57%) AppDynamics
5 5 (3.57%) SAP
6 4 (2.86%) F5
6 4 (2.86%) Google
6 4 (2.86%) iManage
6 4 (2.86%) Intapp
6 4 (2.86%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.14%) Microgen
8 2 (1.43%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.71%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.71%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.71%) Pega
9 1 (0.71%) Pegasus
9 1 (0.71%) VMware