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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 360 359
Rank change year-on-year +72 -1 -14
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 61 99 284
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.42% 0.41% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.46% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 73 213
10th Percentile £363 £363 £369
25th Percentile £413 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +4.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile £641 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £25.05
25th Percentile £77.50 - £25.13
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £25.50
75th Percentile £82.50 - £26.13
90th Percentile - - £26.35
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £90.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.11% +252.94% -7.27%

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 12,824 21,734 40,250
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,646 15,426 29,289
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 517
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

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 2 June 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 6 (9.84%) Confluence
2 3 (4.92%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (3.28%) IIS
3 2 (3.28%) JBoss
4 1 (1.64%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.64%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (4.92%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (4.92%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (4.92%) Oracle FAH
1 3 (4.92%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (4.92%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (4.92%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (4.92%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (42.62%) Azure
2 24 (39.34%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (22.95%) AWS
4 10 (16.39%) GitHub
4 10 (16.39%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (16.39%) IaaS
4 10 (16.39%) PaaS
4 10 (16.39%) SaaS
5 6 (9.84%) Firebase
6 5 (8.20%) BlazeMeter
6 5 (8.20%) BrowserStack
6 5 (8.20%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (8.20%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 3 (4.92%) Azure API Management
8 2 (3.28%) GCP
9 1 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.28%) DB2
2 1 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.64%) Big Data
2 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (29.51%) Postman
2 15 (24.59%) JMeter
3 12 (19.67%) Jenkins
4 10 (16.39%) SonarQube
5 9 (14.75%) Cypress.io
5 9 (14.75%) JIRA
6 8 (13.11%) Selenium
7 6 (9.84%) GitLab
8 5 (8.20%) Appium
8 5 (8.20%) Git
8 5 (8.20%) LoadRunner
9 4 (6.56%) SoapUI
10 3 (4.92%) Cucumber
10 3 (4.92%) NUnit
10 3 (4.92%) Toad
10 3 (4.92%) Visual Studio
11 2 (3.28%) JUnit
11 2 (3.28%) Vagrant
12 1 (1.64%) Gradle
12 1 (1.64%) Mockito
General
1 20 (32.79%) Finance
2 14 (22.95%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.03%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.20%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.92%) Back Office
5 3 (4.92%) Banking
5 3 (4.92%) Electronics
5 3 (4.92%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.92%) Marketing
5 3 (4.92%) Retail
6 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Analyst
2 11 (18.03%) Senior
2 11 (18.03%) Test Analyst
3 10 (16.39%) Test Engineer
3 10 (16.39%) Test Manager
4 8 (13.11%) Lead
5 7 (11.48%) Tester
6 6 (9.84%) Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) QA Tester
8 4 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
8 4 (6.56%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (6.56%) Senior Test Analyst
8 4 (6.56%) Senior Test Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Architect
9 3 (4.92%) Test Leader
10 2 (3.28%) Developer
10 2 (3.28%) Functional Analyst
10 2 (3.28%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.28%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.39%) ARM Templates
1 10 (16.39%) Azure Blueprints
2 7 (11.48%) Middleware
3 5 (8.20%) WebdriverIO
4 4 (6.56%) .NET
4 4 (6.56%) SOAP
5 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.92%) GraphQL
5 3 (4.92%) Playwright
5 3 (4.92%) Swagger
6 1 (1.64%) Akka
6 1 (1.64%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (1.64%) Dagger
6 1 (1.64%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.64%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (1.64%) JPA
6 1 (1.64%) Node.js
6 1 (1.64%) Play Framework
6 1 (1.64%) REST
6 1 (1.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.31%) Management Information System
2 10 (16.39%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.56%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.92%) Online Banking
5 2 (3.28%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.84%) Unix
2 5 (8.20%) Windows
3 4 (6.56%) Android
4 3 (4.92%) Linux
5 2 (3.28%) AIX
5 2 (3.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (59.02%) Test Automation
2 27 (44.26%) Functional Testing
3 25 (40.98%) DevOps
4 24 (39.34%) Agile
5 22 (36.07%) Test Strategy
6 16 (26.23%) Mentoring
6 16 (26.23%) Software Engineering
6 16 (26.23%) Test Management
7 15 (24.59%) Performance Testing
8 13 (21.31%) CI/CD
9 12 (19.67%) Continuous Delivery
9 12 (19.67%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (19.67%) Project Management
9 12 (19.67%) Scrum
10 11 (18.03%) Release Management
10 11 (18.03%) Test Scripting
11 10 (16.39%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (16.39%) Manual Testing
11 10 (16.39%) Performance Analysis
11 10 (16.39%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.23%) SQL
2 10 (16.39%) JavaScript
3 6 (9.84%) Java
4 4 (6.56%) Kotlin
4 4 (6.56%) Python
5 3 (4.92%) PL/SQL
5 3 (4.92%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.28%) C#
7 1 (1.64%) Scala
7 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (32.79%) Security Cleared
2 19 (31.15%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (9.84%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.28%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.03%) QA
2 10 (16.39%) NCSC
3 6 (9.84%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.64%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (22.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (18.03%) Kubernetes
2 10 (16.39%) Ansible
2 10 (16.39%) Terraform
3 2 (3.28%) Grafana
3 2 (3.28%) Tivoli
4 1 (1.64%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
1 7 (11.48%) Oracle
2 3 (4.92%) Microgen
2 3 (4.92%) SAP
3 2 (3.28%) AppDynamics
3 2 (3.28%) F5
3 2 (3.28%) Google
3 2 (3.28%) IBM
4 1 (1.64%) HP
4 1 (1.64%) VMware