Non-Functional Testing Contracts in Manchester

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 102 137
Rank change year-on-year +21 +35 -44
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 10 10 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.69% 0.55% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.60% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 7
10th Percentile £444 £374 £315
25th Percentile £463 £434 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +50.00% -7.51%
75th Percentile £525 £625 £519
90th Percentile £538 - £578
North West median daily rate £475 £600 £400
% change year-on-year -20.83% +50.00% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,260 1,658 2,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.84% 91.50% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 1,211 1,806
10th Percentile £325 £315 £266
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £598 £597 £586
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 54 60
10th Percentile £12.44 £16.69 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £12.02
Median hourly rate £26.00 £36.15 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.08% +100.83% +10.91%
75th Percentile £60.63 £47.82 £34.06
90th Percentile £73.70 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £23.80 £36.65 £24.10
% change year-on-year -35.06% +52.07% +30.27%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in Manchester

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in Manchester

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in Manchester

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (10.00%) Firebase
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
2 1 (10.00%) SpeedCurve
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Crashlytics
1 1 (10.00%) Gradle
1 1 (10.00%) JMeter
1 1 (10.00%) NeoLoad
1 1 (10.00%) Pa11y
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
1 1 (10.00%) TestCafe
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Senior
2 5 (50.00%) Test Engineer
3 4 (40.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Test Manager
4 2 (20.00%) Tester
5 1 (10.00%) Android Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Lead
5 1 (10.00%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Test Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Test Leader
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Android Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (10.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (10.00%) Dagger
1 1 (10.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (40.00%) Load Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Security Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Active Listening
3 3 (30.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 3 (30.00%) Customer Experience
3 3 (30.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Functional Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) User Experience
5 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (10.00%) TDD
5 1 (10.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Kibana