Non-Functional Testing Contracts in the East Midlands

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Non-Functional Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 65 83
Rank change year-on-year +14 +18 +10
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.93% 0.13% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.17% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £299 - £330
25th Percentile £358 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -13.40% +8.11% +19.35%
75th Percentile £500 - £538
90th Percentile £522 - £575
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in the East Midlands

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in the East Midlands

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the East Midlands

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in the East Midlands

Non-Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Northamptonshire +2 4 £433 -13.40%
Derbyshire - 1 - -
Non-Functional Testing
England

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) JBoss
1 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (40.00%) CA Release Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Introscope
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) J2EE
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) AIX
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Build Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Business Development
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Extraction
3 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (20.00%) Product Backlog
4 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) C
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) CA Wily
1 2 (40.00%) Kibana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) AppDynamics
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Google
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) HP