Non-Functional Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 357 347
Rank change year-on-year +68 -10 -10
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 60 109 298
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.43% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.48% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 83 232
10th Percentile £364 £363 £368
25th Percentile £417 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% +7.78% -
75th Percentile £641 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £530 £545 £475
% change year-on-year -2.75% +14.74% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £90.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +157.14% +27.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,143 22,599 40,333
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.00% 89.72% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,800 15,969 29,287
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 519 542
10th Percentile £14.96 £18.63 £14.28
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £37.39
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +42.69% +52.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Non-Functional Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Non-Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Non-Functional Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Non-Functional Testing.

Non-Functional Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Non-Functional Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Non-Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Non-Functional Testing.

Non-Functional Testing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (6.67%) Confluence
2 3 (5.00%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (3.33%) IIS
3 2 (3.33%) JBoss
3 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.67%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle FAH
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (35.00%) AWS
1 21 (35.00%) Azure
2 20 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (20.00%) SaaS
4 10 (16.67%) GitHub
4 10 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (16.67%) IaaS
4 10 (16.67%) PaaS
5 5 (8.33%) Firebase
6 4 (6.67%) BlazeMeter
6 4 (6.67%) BrowserStack
6 4 (6.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.67%) GCP
8 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) DB2
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.67%) Big Data
2 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) Postman
2 11 (18.33%) Cypress.io
2 11 (18.33%) Jenkins
2 11 (18.33%) JMeter
3 10 (16.67%) JIRA
3 10 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 9 (15.00%) Selenium
5 5 (8.33%) Appium
5 5 (8.33%) Git
6 4 (6.67%) Cucumber
6 4 (6.67%) GitLab
6 4 (6.67%) Visual Studio
7 3 (5.00%) LoadRunner
7 3 (5.00%) NUnit
7 3 (5.00%) Toad
8 2 (3.33%) JUnit
8 2 (3.33%) SoapUI
8 2 (3.33%) Vagrant
9 1 (1.67%) NeoLoad
9 1 (1.67%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (33.33%) Finance
2 12 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 12 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.67%) Electronics
4 4 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 4 (6.67%) Marketing
5 3 (5.00%) Back Office
5 3 (5.00%) Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (28.33%) Senior
2 13 (21.67%) Test Engineer
3 12 (20.00%) Analyst
4 10 (16.67%) Test Analyst
5 8 (13.33%) Lead
6 7 (11.67%) Senior Test Engineer
6 7 (11.67%) Test Manager
6 7 (11.67%) Tester
7 5 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (8.33%) Senior Test Analyst
7 5 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) QA Tester
9 3 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Project Manager
9 3 (5.00%) Test Leader
10 2 (3.33%) Finance Manager
10 2 (3.33%) Finance Systems Analyst
10 2 (3.33%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
10 2 (3.33%) Oracle Financials Analyst
10 2 (3.33%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) ARM Templates
1 10 (16.67%) Azure Blueprints
2 5 (8.33%) Middleware
3 4 (6.67%) .NET
3 4 (6.67%) Playwright
3 4 (6.67%) WebdriverIO
4 3 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.00%) GraphQL
5 2 (3.33%) RESTful
5 2 (3.33%) SOAP
5 2 (3.33%) Web Services
6 1 (1.67%) Akka
6 1 (1.67%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.67%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.67%) JPA
6 1 (1.67%) Node.js
6 1 (1.67%) REST
6 1 (1.67%) Spring
6 1 (1.67%) Spring MVC
6 1 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.67%) Management Information System
2 10 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.00%) Online Banking
5 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.00%) Unix
2 5 (8.33%) Windows
3 4 (6.67%) Android
4 3 (5.00%) Linux
5 2 (3.33%) AIX
5 2 (3.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (53.33%) Test Automation
2 29 (48.33%) Functional Testing
3 22 (36.67%) DevOps
4 21 (35.00%) Agile
4 21 (35.00%) Test Strategy
5 17 (28.33%) Mentoring
6 16 (26.67%) Performance Testing
7 15 (25.00%) Test Management
8 14 (23.33%) CI/CD
8 14 (23.33%) Software Engineering
9 13 (21.67%) Project Management
10 12 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
10 12 (20.00%) Software Testing
11 11 (18.33%) Manual Testing
11 11 (18.33%) Release Management
11 11 (18.33%) Scenario Testing
11 11 (18.33%) Scrum
12 10 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (16.67%) Migration
12 10 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.33%) SQL
2 11 (18.33%) JavaScript
3 10 (16.67%) Java
4 7 (11.67%) Python
5 4 (6.67%) C#
5 4 (6.67%) Kotlin
6 3 (5.00%) PL/SQL
6 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 23 (38.33%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (11.67%) ISTQB
5 3 (5.00%) ISEB
6 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.67%) NCSC
1 10 (16.67%) QA
2 8 (13.33%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.00%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (18.33%) Kubernetes
2 10 (16.67%) Ansible
2 10 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (3.33%) Grafana
3 2 (3.33%) Tivoli
4 1 (1.67%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) Oracle
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.67%) SAP
4 3 (5.00%) IBM
4 3 (5.00%) Microgen
5 2 (3.33%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.33%) F5
5 2 (3.33%) HP
6 1 (1.67%) Google
6 1 (1.67%) VMware