Non-Functional Testing Contracts in England

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Non-Functional Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 427 443 419
Rank change year-on-year +16 -24 -29
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 113 217 411
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.44% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.49% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 164 308
10th Percentile £365 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £437 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +15.79% +3.83%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £538
90th Percentile £625 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £539 £545 £475
% change year-on-year -1.19% +14.74% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £90.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £90.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +157.14% +34.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Non-Functional Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,821 44,233 63,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.48% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,850 31,044 45,163
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,250 1,565 1,721
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.68 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024. 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 +23 63 £535 -6.96% 8
South West +16 16 £590 +7.27% 2
North of England +22 14 £463 -22.92% 6
North West +14 9 £475 -20.83% 5
Midlands +30 6 £363 -19.44% 1
South East +4 4 £525 +27.27% 5
East Midlands +25 3 £363 -21.62%
West Midlands +20 3 £363 -19.44% 1
North East +13 3 £410 -25.45%
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Yorkshire +13 2 £425 -24.44% 1
East of England +6 1 £475 -32.14%
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 7 (6.19%) Confluence
2 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.65%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.77%) IIS
4 2 (1.77%) JBoss
4 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.88%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.88%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.65%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.77%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Endur
1 3 (2.65%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (2.65%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.65%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (2.65%) Oracle FAH
1 3 (2.65%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (2.65%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (2.65%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (2.65%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.88%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.35%) Azure
2 22 (19.47%) AWS
3 17 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (6.19%) BrowserStack
4 7 (6.19%) Firebase
5 6 (5.31%) BlazeMeter
5 6 (5.31%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 6 (5.31%) Serverless
6 5 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.54%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (2.65%) GCP
9 2 (1.77%) GitHub
9 2 (1.77%) SaaS
10 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.88%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.54%) Internet
2 3 (2.65%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.88%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (0.88%) GGSN
3 1 (0.88%) IPsec
3 1 (0.88%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.54%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (3.54%) NoSQL
1 4 (3.54%) Redis
2 3 (2.65%) DB2
2 3 (2.65%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.77%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.88%) MySQL
4 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (28.32%) JIRA
2 21 (18.58%) Postman
3 14 (12.39%) Cypress.io
3 14 (12.39%) Jenkins
4 13 (11.50%) Git
4 13 (11.50%) Visual Studio
5 12 (10.62%) Cucumber
5 12 (10.62%) JMeter
5 12 (10.62%) Selenium
6 9 (7.96%) Appium
6 9 (7.96%) LoadRunner
7 8 (7.08%) GitLab
8 7 (6.19%) NUnit
9 5 (4.42%) Gatling
9 5 (4.42%) SpecFlow
10 4 (3.54%) JUnit
10 4 (3.54%) Mockito
10 4 (3.54%) NeoLoad
10 4 (3.54%) ScalaTest
10 4 (3.54%) WebDriver
General
1 32 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 29 (25.66%) Finance
3 17 (15.04%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.50%) Back Office
5 11 (9.73%) Public Sector
6 10 (8.85%) Banking
7 7 (6.19%) Telecoms
8 5 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.54%) Electronics
9 4 (3.54%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.54%) Law
9 4 (3.54%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.54%) Marketing
9 4 (3.54%) Wholesale Banking
10 3 (2.65%) Legal
11 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Local Government
11 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (28.32%) Senior
2 24 (21.24%) Test Engineer
3 22 (19.47%) Tester
4 21 (18.58%) Analyst
5 18 (15.93%) Test Analyst
6 16 (14.16%) Senior Test Engineer
7 15 (13.27%) Lead
8 14 (12.39%) Test Manager
9 10 (8.85%) QA Engineer
9 10 (8.85%) Test Leader
10 9 (7.96%) Senior Analyst
10 9 (7.96%) Senior Test Analyst
11 8 (7.08%) QA Tester
12 7 (6.19%) Automation Tester
12 7 (6.19%) Developer
12 7 (6.19%) Test Automation Engineer
13 6 (5.31%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
14 5 (4.42%) QA Test Engineer
14 5 (4.42%) Scala Developer
15 4 (3.54%) Performance Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.85%) Playwright
2 9 (7.96%) .NET
2 9 (7.96%) Middleware
3 8 (7.08%) AngularJS
3 8 (7.08%) Web Services
4 7 (6.19%) GraphQL
4 7 (6.19%) WebdriverIO
5 5 (4.42%) Gherkin
5 5 (4.42%) Jest
5 5 (4.42%) Node.js
5 5 (4.42%) RESTful
5 5 (4.42%) XML
6 4 (3.54%) Akka
6 4 (3.54%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.54%) JPA
6 4 (3.54%) Play Framework
6 4 (3.54%) spray
6 4 (3.54%) Spring
6 4 (3.54%) Spring MVC
7 3 (2.65%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.08%) Mobile App
2 7 (6.19%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.65%) Online Banking
5 2 (1.77%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.77%) Derivative
6 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.88%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.88%) PMI
6 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.50%) Unix
2 9 (7.96%) Linux
3 7 (6.19%) Windows
4 6 (5.31%) Android
5 2 (1.77%) AIX
5 2 (1.77%) Solaris
6 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (53.10%) Agile
1 60 (53.10%) Test Automation
2 46 (40.71%) Functional Testing
3 40 (35.40%) Performance Testing
4 34 (30.09%) Test Strategy
5 28 (24.78%) CI/CD
6 25 (22.12%) BDD
6 25 (22.12%) DevOps
7 24 (21.24%) Continuous Integration
8 23 (20.35%) Scrum
9 21 (18.58%) Scenario Testing
9 21 (18.58%) Software Testing
9 21 (18.58%) Test Management
10 20 (17.70%) Manual Testing
11 18 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (15.93%) TDD
12 16 (14.16%) Acceptance Criteria
13 15 (13.27%) Kanban
14 14 (12.39%) Migration
15 13 (11.50%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.01%) SQL
2 21 (18.58%) Java
3 15 (13.27%) JavaScript
3 15 (13.27%) TypeScript
4 11 (9.73%) Python
5 10 (8.85%) C#
6 5 (4.42%) Kotlin
6 5 (4.42%) Scala
7 3 (2.65%) C
7 3 (2.65%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.77%) Bash
9 1 (0.88%) C++
9 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (20.35%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.70%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.73%) ISTQB
4 7 (6.19%) Degree
5 4 (3.54%) ISEB
6 3 (2.65%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.88%) CCNA
7 1 (0.88%) CCNP
7 1 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (30.09%) QA
2 17 (15.04%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.65%) PMO
4 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (12.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (6.19%) Grafana
2 6 (5.31%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.42%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.77%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.88%) Ansible
5 1 (0.88%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.88%) Kibana
5 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (9.73%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.08%) Oracle
3 6 (5.31%) CA Agile Central
4 5 (4.42%) HP
4 5 (4.42%) IBM
4 5 (4.42%) SAP
5 4 (3.54%) iManage
5 4 (3.54%) Intapp
5 4 (3.54%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.65%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.65%) Google
6 3 (2.65%) Microgen
7 2 (1.77%) F5
7 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.88%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.88%) Pega
8 1 (0.88%) Pegasus
8 1 (0.88%) VMware