Non-Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Non-Functional Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 54 65
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 +21
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 8 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.91% 0.50% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.58% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £309 £296 -
25th Percentile £348 £350 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £455 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.18% - -
75th Percentile £738 £476 -
90th Percentile - £479 -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.00%

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 740 519 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.09% 87.08% 83.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 319 431
10th Percentile £189 £250 £213
25th Percentile £358 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £436 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.56% -8.32% +2.15%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £640 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 22 47
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.29 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.46
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.05 £21.52
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +2.46% +27.84%
75th Percentile £25.14 £25.02 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.09 £59.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Non-Functional Testing job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Non-Functional Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Non-Functional Testing

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 19 December 2025.

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

Non-Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Non-Functional Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Non-Functional Testing

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 19 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
Northamptonshire -13 5 £360 +38.46% 1
Leicestershire - 3 £725 -
Non-Functional Testing
England

Non-Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) LoadRunner
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Postman
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) JMeter
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Automation Tester
2 3 (37.50%) Tester
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (25.00%) Playwright
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (75.00%) Test Strategy
3 5 (62.50%) API Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Functional Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Load Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Test Planning
5 2 (25.00%) BDD
5 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Microservices
5 2 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (25.00%) Test Management
6 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
6 1 (12.50%) Agile
6 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
6 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) Scrum
6 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) AppDynamics
1 3 (37.50%) Dynatrace
1 3 (37.50%) New Relic
1 3 (37.50%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft