Non-Functional Testing Contracts in London

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 354 407
Rank change year-on-year +21 +53 -46
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 66 129 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.49% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.54% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 98 151
10th Percentile £375 £389 £363
25th Percentile £430 £470 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +17.95% -2.50%
75th Percentile £613 £711 £625
90th Percentile £704 £798 £775
England median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £90.00 -
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,526 23,775 35,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.71% 90.94% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,123 17,148 26,221
10th Percentile £345 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 311 269 423
10th Percentile £15.95 £18.50 £17.55
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.62% +5.41% +13.24%
75th Percentile £48.66 £64.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £82.30 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +6.61%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in London

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in London

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in London

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 14 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
Central London +46 7 £510 -5.12%
West London +24 5 £330 -
East London - 4 £669 - 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 6 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.06%) Confluence
3 2 (3.03%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.52%) IIS
4 1 (1.52%) JBoss
4 1 (1.52%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.52%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.55%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (3.03%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.70%) Azure
2 11 (16.67%) AWS
3 7 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.58%) Serverless
4 5 (7.58%) Tricentis Tosca
5 4 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.55%) BlazeMeter
6 3 (4.55%) BrowserStack
6 3 (4.55%) Firebase
6 3 (4.55%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (3.03%) SaaS
8 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.52%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (6.06%) NoSQL
1 4 (6.06%) Redis
2 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.03%) DB2
3 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.52%) MySQL
4 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (33.33%) JIRA
2 14 (21.21%) Postman
3 12 (18.18%) Cucumber
3 12 (18.18%) LoadRunner
4 10 (15.15%) Visual Studio
5 9 (13.64%) Selenium
6 8 (12.12%) Appium
6 8 (12.12%) Git
6 8 (12.12%) JMeter
7 7 (10.61%) Cypress.io
8 6 (9.09%) Jenkins
8 6 (9.09%) WebDriver
9 5 (7.58%) Gatling
9 5 (7.58%) NeoLoad
9 5 (7.58%) Rational Performance Tester
9 5 (7.58%) SpecFlow
10 4 (6.06%) GitLab
10 4 (6.06%) Mockito
10 4 (6.06%) ScalaTest
11 3 (4.55%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (37.88%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.24%) Finance
3 14 (21.21%) Back Office
4 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.12%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.09%) Banking
6 5 (7.58%) Law
7 4 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (6.06%) Investment Banking
7 4 (6.06%) Legal
7 4 (6.06%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (3.03%) Electronics
8 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.03%) Marketing
8 2 (3.03%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.52%) Local Government
9 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (22.73%) Senior
2 14 (21.21%) Analyst
2 14 (21.21%) Test Analyst
3 13 (19.70%) Lead
4 12 (18.18%) Tester
5 9 (13.64%) QA Engineer
5 9 (13.64%) Senior Analyst
5 9 (13.64%) Senior Test Analyst
5 9 (13.64%) Test Leader
6 8 (12.12%) Test Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Developer
7 6 (9.09%) QA Tester
8 5 (7.58%) Performance Test Leader
8 5 (7.58%) QA Test Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Scala Developer
8 5 (7.58%) Test Manager
9 4 (6.06%) Automation Tester
10 3 (4.55%) Project Manager
11 2 (3.03%) Architect
11 2 (3.03%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.09%) Middleware
1 6 (9.09%) Web Services
2 5 (7.58%) Gherkin
2 5 (7.58%) Jest
2 5 (7.58%) RESTful
3 4 (6.06%) .NET
3 4 (6.06%) Akka
3 4 (6.06%) Hibernate
3 4 (6.06%) JPA
3 4 (6.06%) Node.js
3 4 (6.06%) Play Framework
3 4 (6.06%) spray
3 4 (6.06%) Spring
3 4 (6.06%) Spring MVC
3 4 (6.06%) WebdriverIO
3 4 (6.06%) XML
4 3 (4.55%) ADO
4 3 (4.55%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (4.55%) JSON
4 3 (4.55%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.58%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.03%) Derivative
5 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.52%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.64%) Unix
2 8 (12.12%) Linux
3 5 (7.58%) Android
4 2 (3.03%) Windows
5 1 (1.52%) AIX
5 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.52%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (68.18%) Agile
2 43 (65.15%) Test Automation
3 29 (43.94%) Performance Testing
4 25 (37.88%) Functional Testing
5 22 (33.33%) Test Strategy
6 21 (31.82%) Continuous Integration
7 19 (28.79%) BDD
8 18 (27.27%) Acceptance Criteria
9 16 (24.24%) CI/CD
10 15 (22.73%) Manual Testing
10 15 (22.73%) Scrum
11 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (19.70%) Software Testing
12 12 (18.18%) DevOps
12 12 (18.18%) Project Management
12 12 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
13 11 (16.67%) TDD
13 11 (16.67%) Test Management
14 10 (15.15%) Kanban
15 9 (13.64%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 16 (24.24%) SQL
2 15 (22.73%) Java
3 9 (13.64%) C#
4 7 (10.61%) TypeScript
5 6 (9.09%) Python
6 5 (7.58%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.58%) Scala
7 4 (6.06%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.52%) C
8 1 (1.52%) C++
8 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (10.61%) SC Cleared
1 7 (10.61%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.58%) Degree
3 4 (6.06%) ISEB
3 4 (6.06%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (39.39%) QA
2 6 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.55%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (12.12%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.58%) Grafana
1 5 (7.58%) Kubernetes
1 5 (7.58%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.52%) Ansible
2 1 (1.52%) Terraform
2 1 (1.52%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.61%) CA Agile Central
2 7 (10.61%) HP
3 6 (9.09%) IBM
4 5 (7.58%) iManage
4 5 (7.58%) Intapp
4 5 (7.58%) OpenAI
5 3 (4.55%) Oracle
6 2 (3.03%) AppDynamics
6 2 (3.03%) SAP
6 2 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.52%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.52%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.52%) F5
7 1 (1.52%) Google
7 1 (1.52%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.52%) Pegasus
7 1 (1.52%) VMware