Non-Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in the North East

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Non-Functional Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - +33
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 15 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 4.46% - 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% - 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 1
10th Percentile £365 - -
25th Percentile £406 - £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £423
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.58%
75th Percentile £485 - £434
90th Percentile £575 - -
England median daily rate £488 £518 £530
% change year-on-year -5.80% -2.36% +3.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 289 256 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 86.01% 92.42% 87.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 101 150
10th Percentile £170 £310 £262
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £575
90th Percentile £600 £688 £650
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 33 13
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% -6.97% +82.86%
75th Percentile £51.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £54.00 £66.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.07 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.94% -14.45% +27.14%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Non-Functional Testing job vacancy trend in the North East

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Non-Functional Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Non-Functional Testing

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in the North East over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the North East

Non-Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Tyne and Wear - 14 £425 - 5
Durham - 1 - -
Non-Functional Testing
England

Non-Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 8 (53.33%) REST Assured
3 5 (33.33%) GitLab
4 4 (26.67%) Selenium
5 2 (13.33%) JIRA
5 2 (13.33%) Postman
6 1 (6.67%) Appium
6 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
6 1 (6.67%) Gatling
6 1 (6.67%) JMeter
6 1 (6.67%) TestRail
General
1 8 (53.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Java Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Developer in Test
5 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) QA Test Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) QA Tester
5 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) Spring Boot
1 8 (53.33%) WireMock
2 7 (46.67%) REST
3 3 (20.00%) Spring
4 1 (6.67%) Gherkin
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 15 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (86.67%) BDD
2 13 (86.67%) Functional Testing
3 11 (73.33%) Containerisation
3 11 (73.33%) TDD
4 10 (66.67%) Agile
5 9 (60.00%) Microservices
6 7 (46.67%) Software Engineering
7 5 (33.33%) API Testing
7 5 (33.33%) Performance Testing
7 5 (33.33%) Security Testing
8 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (26.67%) Integration Testing
9 3 (20.00%) API Development
9 3 (20.00%) DevOps
9 3 (20.00%) SDLC
9 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
9 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Java
2 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) QA
3 1 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes