Non-Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Non-Functional Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 73 94
Rank change year-on-year -23 +21 +30
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 3 13 7
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.25% 1.22% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 1.36% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - - £436
25th Percentile £315 - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% -15.79% +16.92%
75th Percentile £345 - £509
90th Percentile - - £549
North West median daily rate £330 £400 £550
% change year-on-year -17.50% -27.27% +41.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £72.25
25th Percentile - - £73.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile - - £80.63
90th Percentile - - £81.75
North West median hourly rate £70.00 - £75.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,082 955 1,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.87% 89.50% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 728 567 983
10th Percentile £309 £294 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £593
90th Percentile £650 £681 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 38 49
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.97 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.39 £22.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% +8.33% -21.36%
75th Percentile £52.88 £36.19 £61.25
90th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £75.90
North West median hourly rate £31.75 £31.25 £35.73
% change year-on-year +1.60% -12.53% +34.66%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Non-Functional Testing job vacancy trend in Manchester

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Non-Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

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

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Firebase
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) CocoaPods
1 1 (33.33%) Crashlytics
1 1 (33.33%) fastlane
1 1 (33.33%) Gradle
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Android Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) iOS Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (33.33%) Dagger
1 1 (33.33%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (33.33%) SwiftUI
1 1 (33.33%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
2 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Android Development
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile Development
3 1 (33.33%) Multivariate Testing
3 1 (33.33%) MVVM
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Kotlin
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Objective-C
3 1 (33.33%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana