Non-Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Non-Functional Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 58 65
Rank change year-on-year -17 +7 +27
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 7 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.79% 0.83% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.90% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile - - £325
25th Percentile £610 £263 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £275 £425
Median % change year-on-year +125.45% -35.29% -26.09%
75th Percentile £630 £288 £488
90th Percentile - - £525
West Yorkshire median daily rate £620 £275 £425
% change year-on-year +125.45% -35.29% -26.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 755 444 690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 85.12% 91.93% 86.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 291 418
10th Percentile £331 £263 £300
25th Percentile £419 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -7.62%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £638 £671
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 24
10th Percentile - £17.08 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.25 £27.87 £12.15
Median hourly rate £14.50 £61.76 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year -76.52% +402.13% -67.84%
75th Percentile £24.29 £99.42 £12.53
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £14.82
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £22.14 £12.53
% change year-on-year -14.18% +76.70% -38.12%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Non-Functional Testing job vacancy trend in Leeds

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Non-Functional Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Non-Functional Testing

Non-Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) BrowserStack
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Gatling
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) REST Assured
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
1 2 (28.57%) Serenity BDD
General
1 2 (28.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Test Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Test Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) Playwright
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Functional Testing
2 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Creative Thinking
3 4 (57.14%) Test Planning
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Testing
5 2 (28.57%) BDD
5 2 (28.57%) Build Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Component Testing
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Microservices
5 2 (28.57%) Observability
5 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
6 1 (14.29%) AI
6 1 (14.29%) Analytics
6 1 (14.29%) Conversational UI
6 1 (14.29%) Data Extraction
6 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) TypeScript
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft