Non-Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in the South West

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Non-Functional Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 126 147
Rank change year-on-year +7 +21 +12
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 5 12 8
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.24% 0.49% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.58% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile - £513 £413
25th Percentile £463 £571 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £595 £585
Median % change year-on-year -20.17% +1.71% +28.57%
75th Percentile £488 £600 £645
90th Percentile - £611 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £23.43
Median hourly rate - - £23.86
75th Percentile - - £44.64
90th Percentile - - £56.86
England median hourly rate £45.00 £36.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +24.14% -44.23% +150.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,837 2,071 2,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.00% 84.22% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,060 1,213 1,878
10th Percentile £222 £300 £308
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £721
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 178 280
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.57 £20.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £40.00 £46.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.60% +9.17% -5.11%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.16 £44.50
% change year-on-year -38.89% -7.52% +27.14%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Non-Functional Testing job vacancy trend in the South West

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Non-Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Non-Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 23 October 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
Gloucestershire - 3 - -
Bristol +1 2 £475 -14.80% 1
Non-Functional Testing
England

Non-Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (40.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Automation Tester
1 3 (60.00%) Software Tester
1 3 (60.00%) Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Data Centre Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Migration Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Test Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Data Validation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Server Migrations
2 2 (40.00%) Smoke Testing
2 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible