Non-Functional Testing Contracts in Edinburgh

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 65 65 102
Rank change year-on-year 0 +37 +15
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 2 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.32% 0.86% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.97% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - £508 £363
25th Percentile - £519 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £625 £407
Median % change year-on-year - +53.56% -8.28%
75th Percentile - £656 £468
90th Percentile - £675 £510
Scotland median daily rate £425 £625 £407
% change year-on-year -32.00% +53.56% -6.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in Edinburgh

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in Edinburgh

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Environment Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Confluent
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) StreamSets