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 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 125 127 141
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 +42
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 4 6 13
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.21% 0.26% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.28% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 11
10th Percentile £400 £359 £513
25th Percentile £456 £408 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -29.17% +11.63%
75th Percentile £638 £438 £695
90th Percentile £690 £463 -
London median daily rate £563 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +25.00% -18.18% +4.76%

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 1,777 2,148 2,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.72% 91.79% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,229 1,348 1,865
10th Percentile £331 £363 £358
25th Percentile £424 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £750 £775 £806
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 18
10th Percentile £17.79 £19.50 £16.18
25th Percentile £20.18 £28.06 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +6.87% -24.26%
75th Percentile £36.00 £74.38 £52.88
90th Percentile £60.95 £124.75 £70.25
London median hourly rate £30.00 £38.07 £38.00
% change year-on-year -21.20% +0.18% +1.33%

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 +2 4 £550 +29.41% 15
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%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Gatling
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JMeter
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (25.00%) Change Data Capture
4 1 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
4 1 (25.00%) Model Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
4 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Confluent
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Informatica
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) StreamSets