Non-Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Non-Functional Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 43 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.38% 0.57% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.70% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £162 -
Wales median daily rate - £162 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 235 286 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 89.02% 81.71% 87.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 148 267
10th Percentile £191 £161 £193
25th Percentile £283 £210 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £419 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -11.84% -9.52%
75th Percentile £489 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 40 24
10th Percentile - £15.48 £16.98
25th Percentile £13.08 £20.12 £21.25
Median hourly rate £14.61 £25.36 £26.58
Median % change year-on-year -42.39% -4.60% +32.91%
75th Percentile £20.75 £47.81 £49.06
90th Percentile - £53.88 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £25.36 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.16% -2.46% +37.17%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in South Wales

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Non-Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Non-Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 21 September 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
Cardiff +1 1 - - 2
Non-Functional Testing
Wales

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle