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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 32 34
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +7
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.28% 0.80% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.07% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £514 - -
25th Percentile £553 - £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £162 £188
Median % change year-on-year +283.19% -13.36% -50.00%
75th Percentile £688 - £189
90th Percentile £725 - -
South Wales median daily rate £700 £162 £188
% change year-on-year +330.90% -13.36% -50.00%

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 203 187 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 86.38% 75.10% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 130 164
10th Percentile £226 £140 £168
25th Percentile £293 £210 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £495 £550 £538
90th Percentile £647 £653 £625
South Wales median daily rate £403 £419 £450
% change year-on-year -3.88% -6.94% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 5
10th Percentile - - £18.70
25th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.59 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.89% -16.96% +44.44%
75th Percentile £20.50 £25.60 £26.50
90th Percentile £22.24 £27.50 £36.10
South Wales median hourly rate £17.99 £25.27 £29.83
% change year-on-year -28.82% -15.29% +49.50%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Non-Functional Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Non-Functional Testing job vacancy trend 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
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in Cardiff over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in Cardiff

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 & Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JMeter
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Zephyr
3 1 (33.33%) MSTest
3 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Automation Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle