Non-Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 117 119 139
Rank change year-on-year +2 +20 +34
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 4 6 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.23% 0.28% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.31% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 9
10th Percentile £400 £359 £574
25th Percentile £456 £408 £580
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 £732
Central London median daily rate £550 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +29.41% -29.17% +11.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 1,933 2,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.96% 91.65% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 1,187 1,740
10th Percentile £329 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.37% +1.39%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £758 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -30.13%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +6.87% -24.26%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Non-Functional Testing job vacancy trend in the City of London

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Non-Functional Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Non-Functional Testing

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the City of London

Non-Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Non-Functional Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Non-Functional Testing

Non-Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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