Non-Functional Testing Contracts in Sheffield

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.67% - 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% - 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £463 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £550
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile £556 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £520 - £550

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 450 385 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 93.95% 90.16% 94.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 213 264
10th Percentile £301 £376 £363
25th Percentile £388 £425 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £507 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% -15.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £691
90th Percentile £639 £644 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £564
% change year-on-year -5.10% -11.31% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile £15.00 - £12.45
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.50 £14.63
Median hourly rate £18.36 £21.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +13.16% +13.43%
75th Percentile £18.87 £22.00 £21.13
90th Percentile - - £22.10
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £10.63
% change year-on-year +43.08% +20.70% -36.54%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in Sheffield

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in Sheffield

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in Sheffield over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in Sheffield

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) GitHub
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) InfluxDB
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (62.50%) Selenium
3 4 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 4 (50.00%) Git
3 4 (50.00%) Gradle
3 4 (50.00%) HP UFT
3 4 (50.00%) IntelliJ
3 4 (50.00%) JIRA
3 4 (50.00%) JUnit
3 4 (50.00%) Maven
4 3 (37.50%) GitLab
4 3 (37.50%) Liquibase
5 1 (12.50%) JMeter
5 1 (12.50%) Postman
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Test Manager
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) GCP Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (37.50%) REST
1 3 (37.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Delivery
3 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
4 5 (62.50%) Test Strategy
5 4 (50.00%) Agile
5 4 (50.00%) Analytics
5 4 (50.00%) BDD
5 4 (50.00%) Case Management
5 4 (50.00%) Code Coverage
5 4 (50.00%) Code Quality
5 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (50.00%) Data Privacy
5 4 (50.00%) Document Management
5 4 (50.00%) Due Diligence
5 4 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
5 4 (50.00%) QA Automation
5 4 (50.00%) Software Testing
5 4 (50.00%) TDD
5 4 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Go
3 3 (37.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Grafana
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
1 3 (37.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle