Non-Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Non-Functional Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 33 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.50% 0.88% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £162 -
South Wales median daily rate - £162 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Non-Functional Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 179 171 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 89.95% 75.33% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 117 154
10th Percentile £226 £140 £204
25th Percentile £303 £209 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.44% - -6.15%
75th Percentile £501 £550 £551
90th Percentile £675 £638 £638
South Wales median daily rate £400 £419 £475
% change year-on-year -4.48% -11.84% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 6
10th Percentile £12.21 - £19.13
25th Percentile - £15.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £13.08 £20.08 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.86% -17.20% +34.72%
75th Percentile £17.00 £25.60 £26.38
90th Percentile £22.04 £25.79 £34.50
South Wales median hourly rate £14.61 £25.36 £26.58
% change year-on-year -42.39% -4.60% +32.91%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings citing Non-Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in Cardiff

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Non-Functional Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Non-Functional Testing

Non-Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Non-Functional Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Non-Functional Testing

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle