Non-Functional Testing Contracts in the North of England

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Non-Functional Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 171 201
Rank change year-on-year +18 +30 +1
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 13 14 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.39% 0.29% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.34% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 11
10th Percentile - £374 £413
25th Percentile £263 £409 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £463 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -22.92% +26.32%
75th Percentile £520 £525 £625
90th Percentile - £539 -
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate - £80.00 £90.00
% change year-on-year - -11.11% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in the North of England

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in the North of England

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the North of England

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in the North of England

Non-Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Yorkshire +17 11 £455 +7.06% 1
North West +9 1 £320 -32.63% 3
North East -2 1 £460 +12.20% 2
Non-Functional Testing
England

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (30.77%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) CICS
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (30.77%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) InfluxDB
1 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) JIRA
1 10 (76.92%) Selenium
2 6 (46.15%) Postman
3 5 (38.46%) Cucumber
4 4 (30.77%) Cypress.io
4 4 (30.77%) Git
4 4 (30.77%) Gradle
4 4 (30.77%) HP UFT
4 4 (30.77%) IntelliJ
4 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
4 4 (30.77%) JUnit
4 4 (30.77%) Maven
4 4 (30.77%) SoapUI
5 2 (15.38%) JMeter
6 1 (7.69%) Katalon Studio
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Tester
2 5 (38.46%) QA Tester
3 3 (23.08%) Test Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Test Automation
1 12 (92.31%) Test Strategy
2 10 (76.92%) DevOps
3 8 (61.54%) Agile
4 6 (46.15%) API Testing
4 6 (46.15%) Test Scripting
5 5 (38.46%) BDD
5 5 (38.46%) Manual Testing
5 5 (38.46%) Software Testing
6 4 (30.77%) Case Management
6 4 (30.77%) Code Coverage
6 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (30.77%) Document Management
6 4 (30.77%) OWASP
6 4 (30.77%) Project Management
6 4 (30.77%) QA Automation
6 4 (30.77%) Security Testing
6 4 (30.77%) TDD
6 4 (30.77%) Validation
6 4 (30.77%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) Go
3 1 (7.69%) JCL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) ISTQB
2 1 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (76.92%) QA
2 5 (38.46%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft