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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 309 333
Rank change year-on-year -17 +24 +91
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 36 79 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.27% 0.49% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.55% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 58 96
10th Percentile £399 £393 £385
25th Percentile £481 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £468 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £643 £588 £602
90th Percentile £726 £600 £700
England median daily rate £483 £490 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -10.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -58.33% -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £36.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +24.14% -44.23% +150.00%

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 12,434 14,409 19,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.57% 89.23% 90.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,225 9,616 14,380
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 180 226
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £21.56
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -11.67% +7.82%
75th Percentile £48.13 £55.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.19 £76.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -3 2 £550 +31.34% 1
East London +5 1 £520 +16.85% 1
West London -6 1 £395 - 1
North London - 1 - -
Non-Functional Testing
England

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
3 2 (5.56%) Azure Functions
3 2 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (5.56%) GCP
3 2 (5.56%) GitHub
3 2 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (5.56%) Serverless
4 1 (2.78%) AWS
4 1 (2.78%) BrowserStack
4 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Internet
2 1 (2.78%) DSL
2 1 (2.78%) Firewall
2 1 (2.78%) HTTP
2 1 (2.78%) LAN
2 1 (2.78%) Unified Communications
2 1 (2.78%) WAN
2 1 (2.78%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (13.89%) Relational Database
2 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.33%) DB2
4 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.56%) MySQL
4 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.56%) OLTP
5 1 (2.78%) Big Data
5 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (27.78%) Selenium
2 8 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 7 (19.44%) JIRA
4 6 (16.67%) JMeter
4 6 (16.67%) LoadRunner
5 4 (11.11%) Gatling
5 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
5 4 (11.11%) Postman
6 3 (8.33%) Bitbucket
6 3 (8.33%) GitLab
6 3 (8.33%) TeamCity
7 2 (5.56%) Locust
8 1 (2.78%) Appium
8 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.78%) Git
8 1 (2.78%) HP UFT
8 1 (2.78%) JUnit
8 1 (2.78%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.78%) Robot Framework
8 1 (2.78%) TestRail
General
1 18 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (33.33%) Banking
3 8 (22.22%) Finance
4 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Back Office
6 2 (5.56%) Wholesale Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Front Office
7 1 (2.78%) Police
7 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Lead
2 5 (13.89%) Developer
2 5 (13.89%) Java Developer
2 5 (13.89%) Test Leader
3 4 (11.11%) Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Engineering Manager
3 4 (11.11%) Test Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Test Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Agile Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Agile Java Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Platform Architect
5 2 (5.56%) QA Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) QA Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) QA Test Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Salesforce Tester
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) Spring
2 7 (19.44%) Kafka
3 6 (16.67%) HTML
3 6 (16.67%) Node.js
3 6 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 5 (13.89%) React
4 5 (13.89%) REST
4 5 (13.89%) RESTful
5 4 (11.11%) CSS
5 4 (11.11%) Gherkin
5 4 (11.11%) Playwright
6 3 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (8.33%) Swagger
7 2 (5.56%) ADO
7 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
7 2 (5.56%) GraphQL
7 2 (5.56%) gRPC
7 2 (5.56%) OpenAPI
7 2 (5.56%) Pyramid
7 2 (5.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Distributed Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
1 3 (8.33%) Unix
2 2 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (69.44%) Test Automation
2 21 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 20 (55.56%) Agile
4 19 (52.78%) Functional Testing
5 16 (44.44%) Microservices
6 13 (36.11%) BDD
7 11 (30.56%) Test Strategy
8 10 (27.78%) Integration Testing
9 9 (25.00%) DevOps
10 8 (22.22%) Performance Testing
10 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (22.22%) TDD
11 7 (19.44%) Kanban
11 7 (19.44%) Scrum
11 7 (19.44%) Software Engineering
11 7 (19.44%) System Integration Testing
12 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (16.67%) Observability
12 6 (16.67%) Test Scripting
12 6 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (55.56%) Java
2 9 (25.00%) Python
3 8 (22.22%) SQL
4 6 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.56%) C#
5 2 (5.56%) Go
5 2 (5.56%) Scala
6 1 (2.78%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.78%) Bash
6 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.78%) R
6 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.78%) SOQL
6 1 (2.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) ISTQB
4 3 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.78%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.00%) QA
2 5 (13.89%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.56%) GDPR
3 2 (5.56%) WCAG
4 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (36.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) Atlassian
1 3 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.78%) Charles River
2 1 (2.78%) Cisco
2 1 (2.78%) Genesys
2 1 (2.78%) HP
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) Mitel
2 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle