Non-Functional Testing Contracts in England

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 396 424 440
Rank change year-on-year +28 +16 -28
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 89 118 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.32% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.37% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 97 166
10th Percentile £281 £375 £363
25th Percentile £381 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £650
90th Percentile £798 £638 £744
UK median daily rate £515 £542 £545
% change year-on-year -4.96% -0.60% +14.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £90.00
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +157.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in England

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in England

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in England

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in England

Non-Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London +17 42 £600 +9.59% 24
North of England +18 13 £430 -7.03% 6
Midlands +29 11 £391 -8.00% 2
Yorkshire +17 11 £455 +7.06% 1
South East +47 8 £400 -3.03% 12
East of England +35 6 £600 +26.32% 4
South West +34 6 £500 -13.79% 7
West Midlands +17 6 £190 -47.59% 1
East Midlands +14 5 £433 -13.40% 1
North West +9 1 £320 -32.63% 3
North East -2 1 £460 +12.20% 2
Non-Functional Testing
UK

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (11.24%) Confluence
2 2 (2.25%) IIS
2 2 (2.25%) JBoss
2 2 (2.25%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.12%) Appian
3 1 (1.12%) CICS
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.49%) SAP ERP
1 4 (4.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.25%) Aladdin
2 2 (2.25%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (1.12%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.10%) Azure
2 12 (13.48%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (12.36%) AWS
4 9 (10.11%) GitHub
5 4 (4.49%) GCP
6 3 (3.37%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.25%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.12%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.12%) OCI
8 1 (1.12%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.12%) SaaS
8 1 (1.12%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.49%) HTTP
2 3 (3.37%) Firewall
3 2 (2.25%) LAN
3 2 (2.25%) Unified Communications
3 2 (2.25%) WAN
4 1 (1.12%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (1.12%) Multicast
4 1 (1.12%) Network Security
4 1 (1.12%) WebEx
4 1 (1.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.24%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.62%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (4.49%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.49%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.25%) InfluxDB
5 2 (2.25%) MS Access
5 2 (2.25%) MySQL
5 2 (2.25%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.25%) OLTP
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.12%) Power BI
6 1 (1.12%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (31.46%) JMeter
2 27 (30.34%) JIRA
3 21 (23.60%) Selenium
4 19 (21.35%) LoadRunner
5 18 (20.22%) Jenkins
6 14 (15.73%) Git
7 12 (13.48%) Postman
8 7 (7.87%) Cucumber
9 6 (6.74%) NeoLoad
9 6 (6.74%) REST Assured
10 5 (5.62%) Bitbucket
10 5 (5.62%) Cypress.io
10 5 (5.62%) HP UFT
10 5 (5.62%) JUnit
10 5 (5.62%) Maven
11 4 (4.49%) Gatling
11 4 (4.49%) Gradle
11 4 (4.49%) IntelliJ
11 4 (4.49%) SoapUI
11 4 (4.49%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (43.82%) Social Skills
2 24 (26.97%) Finance
3 15 (16.85%) Banking
4 10 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.11%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.87%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (5.62%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.49%) Telecoms
9 3 (3.37%) Back Office
9 3 (3.37%) Front Office
10 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.12%) Electronics
11 1 (1.12%) Marketing
11 1 (1.12%) Police
11 1 (1.12%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 27 (30.34%) Analyst
2 21 (23.60%) Test Analyst
3 16 (17.98%) Tester
4 15 (16.85%) Test Engineer
5 10 (11.24%) Lead
5 10 (11.24%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
5 10 (11.24%) QA Analyst
5 10 (11.24%) QA Engineer
5 10 (11.24%) QA Test Analyst
6 9 (10.11%) Financial Analyst
6 9 (10.11%) Senior
7 8 (8.99%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) QA Test Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) QA Tester
8 7 (7.87%) Test Leader
8 7 (7.87%) Test Manager
9 4 (4.49%) Automation Tester
9 4 (4.49%) Consultant
9 4 (4.49%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (3.37%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.24%) FIX Protocol
2 9 (10.11%) .NET
3 5 (5.62%) Spring
3 5 (5.62%) Spring Boot
4 4 (4.49%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.49%) Web Services
5 3 (3.37%) Gherkin
5 3 (3.37%) GraphQL
5 3 (3.37%) Playwright
6 2 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.25%) gRPC
6 2 (2.25%) HTML
6 2 (2.25%) J2EE
6 2 (2.25%) Kafka
6 2 (2.25%) Node.js
6 2 (2.25%) Pyramid
6 2 (2.25%) React
6 2 (2.25%) REST
6 2 (2.25%) SOAP
6 2 (2.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 6 (6.74%) FMCG
3 5 (5.62%) Life Science
4 4 (4.49%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.37%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.37%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.25%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.25%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.25%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (2.25%) Online Banking
6 2 (2.25%) Replication
6 2 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.12%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.12%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (1.12%) EPoS
7 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.10%) Windows
2 13 (14.61%) Linux
3 4 (4.49%) Unix
4 3 (3.37%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.25%) AIX
5 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.12%) Kali Linux
6 1 (1.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (60.67%) Test Automation
2 50 (56.18%) Agile
3 33 (37.08%) Test Strategy
4 32 (35.96%) Functional Testing
5 28 (31.46%) DevOps
6 25 (28.09%) CI/CD
7 22 (24.72%) Performance Testing
8 21 (23.60%) User Acceptance Testing
9 20 (22.47%) Test Management
10 17 (19.10%) Test Scripting
11 16 (17.98%) Manual Testing
11 16 (17.98%) Software Testing
12 15 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (16.85%) Scrum
13 14 (15.73%) API Testing
13 14 (15.73%) Security Testing
13 14 (15.73%) System Integration Testing
14 13 (14.61%) BDD
14 13 (14.61%) Defect Management
14 13 (14.61%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (26.97%) Java
2 20 (22.47%) Python
3 13 (14.61%) SQL
4 11 (12.36%) Bash
5 8 (8.99%) JavaScript
5 8 (8.99%) VB
6 6 (6.74%) C#
7 5 (5.62%) Go
8 4 (4.49%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.37%) Perl
10 2 (2.25%) C
10 2 (2.25%) RPG
10 2 (2.25%) Scala
11 1 (1.12%) Groovy
11 1 (1.12%) JCL
11 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.61%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.48%) ISTQB
4 8 (8.99%) Degree
5 6 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.62%) DV Cleared
6 5 (5.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (4.49%) CEH
8 3 (3.37%) CISSP
9 2 (2.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.12%) ISEB
10 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (47.19%) QA
2 13 (14.61%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.37%) GxP
3 3 (3.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.25%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (11.24%) Docker
2 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.12%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.62%) Kibana
3 3 (3.37%) Grafana
3 3 (3.37%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.25%) CA Wily
4 2 (2.25%) HP ALM
4 2 (2.25%) Terraform
5 1 (1.12%) Ansible
5 1 (1.12%) CA Endevor
5 1 (1.12%) Nessus
5 1 (1.12%) Nmap
Vendors
1 9 (10.11%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.87%) Oracle
2 7 (7.87%) SAP
3 4 (4.49%) AppDynamics
3 4 (4.49%) HP
3 4 (4.49%) Splunk
4 3 (3.37%) Charles River
4 3 (3.37%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.25%) Cisco
5 2 (2.25%) Citrix
5 2 (2.25%) Google
5 2 (2.25%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.25%) SimCorp
5 2 (2.25%) VMware
6 1 (1.12%) Ariba
6 1 (1.12%) Databricks
6 1 (1.12%) Genesys
6 1 (1.12%) IBM
6 1 (1.12%) Mitel
6 1 (1.12%) Workday