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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 43 50
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 +11
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 8 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 2.42% 0.53% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 0.66% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £533 - -
25th Percentile £600 - £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £162 £188
Median % change year-on-year +330.90% -13.36% -50.00%
75th Percentile £741 - £189
90th Percentile £746 - -
Wales median daily rate £700 £162 £188
% change year-on-year +330.90% -13.36% -50.00%

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 283 305 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 85.50% 81.33% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 164 265
10th Percentile £199 £160 £169
25th Percentile £283 £212 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.88% -6.94% -10.00%
75th Percentile £495 £550 £588
90th Percentile £638 £684 £648
Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 42 20
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 £16.63
25th Percentile £14.23 £20.12 £21.86
Median hourly rate £17.99 £25.27 £29.83
Median % change year-on-year -28.82% -15.29% +49.50%
75th Percentile £20.75 £40.00 £53.19
90th Percentile £29.82 £49.88 £55.38
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £25.18 £27.17
% change year-on-year -18.59% -7.31% +50.92%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Non-Functional Testing job vacancy trend 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
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in South Wales over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in South Wales

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 6 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
Newport - 5 £700 - 1
Cardiff -1 3 £623 +283.19% 2
Non-Functional Testing
Wales

Non-Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) GitHub
3 5 (62.50%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (25.00%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) JMeter
2 6 (75.00%) MSTest
2 6 (75.00%) Selenium
3 5 (62.50%) Visual Studio
4 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (25.00%) GitLab
4 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (25.00%) JIRA
4 2 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Automation Tester
1 6 (75.00%) Tester
2 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 5 (62.50%) Senior Automation Tester
2 5 (62.50%) Senior Tester
3 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Web Services
2 2 (25.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) AI
2 5 (62.50%) Architectural Design
2 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
2 5 (62.50%) Design Patterns
2 5 (62.50%) Test Strategy
3 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Test Management
5 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) ETL
5 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
6 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
6 1 (12.50%) Scalability Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 7 (87.50%) Python
3 6 (75.00%) C#
4 2 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) ISTQB
1 5 (62.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 5 (62.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft