Non-Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in London

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Non-Functional Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 330 315
Rank change year-on-year -7 -15 +101
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 44 47 94
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.31% 0.30% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.34% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 34 78
10th Percentile £400 £316 £368
25th Percentile £427 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £445 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.98% -19.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £669 £538 £591
90th Percentile £733 £600 £681
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £36.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +24.14% -44.23% +71.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,110 14,014 17,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.71% 89.83% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,647 9,052 12,526
10th Percentile £338 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 165 236
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Non-Functional Testing job vacancy trend in London

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in London

Non-Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Non-Functional Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Non-Functional Testing

Non-Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Central London +8 4 £410 -3.53%
West London -11 2 £552 -
East London +2 1 £520 +18.18% 2
North London - 1 - -
South London - 1 £500 -
Non-Functional Testing
England

Non-Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 8 (18.18%) Confluence
2 2 (4.55%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (9.09%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) CODA-Financials
2 1 (2.27%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 16 (36.36%) Azure
2 9 (20.45%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (11.36%) AWS
3 5 (11.36%) GitHub
4 4 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (9.09%) Serverless
5 3 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.82%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (6.82%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (6.82%) GCP
5 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.55%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Functions
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) Internet
2 1 (2.27%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 4 (9.09%) DB2
2 4 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.82%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.55%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.55%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (4.55%) GIS
5 1 (2.27%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.27%) Big Data
5 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.27%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (34.09%) Selenium
2 11 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (20.45%) Cucumber
3 9 (20.45%) JIRA
4 7 (15.91%) JMeter
5 6 (13.64%) Bitbucket
5 6 (13.64%) Git
5 6 (13.64%) GitLab
6 5 (11.36%) Postman
7 3 (6.82%) LoadRunner
7 3 (6.82%) MSTest
7 3 (6.82%) TeamCity
8 2 (4.55%) Cypress.io
8 2 (4.55%) Locust
8 2 (4.55%) REST Assured
9 1 (2.27%) Gatling
9 1 (2.27%) SpecFlow
9 1 (2.27%) TestRail
9 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio
9 1 (2.27%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Banking
2 7 (15.91%) Finance
3 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.55%) Back Office
4 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.55%) Wholesale Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (22.73%) Developer
1 10 (22.73%) Senior
2 8 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 7 (15.91%) Test Engineer
3 7 (15.91%) Tester
4 5 (11.36%) Lead
4 5 (11.36%) Senior Developer
4 5 (11.36%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (11.36%) Test Automation Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Automation Tester
6 3 (6.82%) Agile Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Agile Java Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Automation Tester
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Tester
7 2 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Geospatial Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Salesforce Tester
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.91%) HTML
1 7 (15.91%) Kafka
2 6 (13.64%) Playwright
2 6 (13.64%) RESTful
2 6 (13.64%) Spring
3 5 (11.36%) CSS
3 5 (11.36%) Spring Boot
4 4 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (9.09%) Gherkin
4 4 (9.09%) Node.js
4 4 (9.09%) React
4 4 (9.09%) REST
4 4 (9.09%) Web Services
5 3 (6.82%) Swagger
6 2 (4.55%) ADO
6 2 (4.55%) boto
6 2 (4.55%) Middleware
6 2 (4.55%) OpenAPI
7 1 (2.27%) DOM
7 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Unix
2 1 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (70.45%) Test Automation
2 27 (61.36%) Agile
3 23 (52.27%) CI/CD
4 22 (50.00%) Functional Testing
5 19 (43.18%) Microservices
6 14 (31.82%) BDD
7 13 (29.55%) DevOps
8 12 (27.27%) Test Strategy
9 9 (20.45%) Integration Testing
9 9 (20.45%) Performance Testing
9 9 (20.45%) TDD
10 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (18.18%) Software Engineering
11 7 (15.91%) Containerisation
11 7 (15.91%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (13.64%) API Testing
12 6 (13.64%) Kanban
12 6 (13.64%) Scrum
12 6 (13.64%) Unit Testing
12 6 (13.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 22 (50.00%) Java
2 14 (31.82%) SQL
3 10 (22.73%) Python
4 7 (15.91%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.82%) C#
6 1 (2.27%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.27%) C
6 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.27%) R
6 1 (2.27%) SOQL
6 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.91%) ISTQB
4 5 (11.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.27%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (2.27%) Degree
6 1 (2.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.45%) QA
2 5 (11.36%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.55%) GDPR
3 2 (4.55%) WCAG
4 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (43.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (29.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.55%) Grafana
2 2 (4.55%) Opsgenie
3 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.82%) Atlassian
2 3 (6.82%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.55%) CODA
3 2 (4.55%) ESRI
3 2 (4.55%) Google
3 2 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (2.27%) Charles River
4 1 (2.27%) Confluent
4 1 (2.27%) Databricks
4 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.27%) IBM
4 1 (2.27%) Informatica
4 1 (2.27%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.27%) SAP
4 1 (2.27%) Splunk
4 1 (2.27%) StreamSets