Non-Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in Central London

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Non-Functional Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 128 138
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 +48
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 4 3 9
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.20% 0.13% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.14% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £372 £333 £573
25th Percentile £386 £363 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £695
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -38.85% +27.82%
75th Percentile £568 £438 -
90th Percentile £662 - £769
London median daily rate £525 £440 £535
% change year-on-year +19.32% -17.76% -0.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,801 2,152 2,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.82% 91.93% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,265 1,343 1,760
10th Percentile £340 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £468 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £681 £688
90th Percentile £750 £787 £813
London median daily rate £530 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 27 16
10th Percentile £19.86 £20.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £29.13 £18.93
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +37.25% -40.70%
75th Percentile £38.88 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £52.50 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £29.50 £36.65 £34.50
% change year-on-year -19.51% +6.23% -12.66%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Non-Functional Testing job vacancy trend in Central London

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in Central London over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in Central London

Non-Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Non-Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. 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
City of London +7 4 £410 -3.53%
Non-Functional Testing
London

Non-Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JMeter
2 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) boto
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Change Data Capture
3 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Confluent
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Informatica
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) StreamSets