Non-Functional Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Non-Functional Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 362 320
Rank change year-on-year +24 -42 -36
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 55 89 201
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.37% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.42% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 69 142
10th Percentile £388 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £593 £575 £518
90th Percentile £618 £625 £550
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £475
% change year-on-year - +15.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £90.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +157.14% +34.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Non-Functional Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,416 21,395 27,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.70% 89.57% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,844 19,217
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,048 1,307 1,356
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Non-Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Non-Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
South West +24 17 £585 +6.36% 1
North of England +25 14 £463 -22.92% 7
North West +26 9 £475 -20.83% 6
Scotland +36 7 £625 +53.56% 4
South East +2 5 £500 +21.21% 5
Midlands +22 4 £425 -5.56% 1
West Midlands +21 3 £363 -19.44% 1
North East +17 3 £410 -25.45%
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Wales +16 2 £363 -
Yorkshire +14 2 £425 -24.44% 1
Isle of Man - 2 - -
East Midlands +18 1 £500 +8.11%
East of England +15 1 £475 -32.14%
Non-Functional Testing
UK

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (5.45%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (5.45%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (5.45%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (5.45%) Oracle FAH
1 3 (5.45%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (5.45%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (5.45%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (5.45%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.82%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.82%) Azure
2 11 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (18.18%) AWS
4 4 (7.27%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (5.45%) GCP
6 2 (3.64%) GitHub
7 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.82%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.82%) Firebase
7 1 (1.82%) SaaS
7 1 (1.82%) Serverless
7 1 (1.82%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.45%) PuTTY
2 2 (3.64%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (3.64%) GGSN
2 2 (3.64%) IPsec
2 2 (3.64%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) Big Data
2 2 (3.64%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (20.00%) Selenium
2 8 (14.55%) JIRA
3 6 (10.91%) Jenkins
4 5 (9.09%) JMeter
5 4 (7.27%) Git
5 4 (7.27%) NUnit
5 4 (7.27%) Postman
5 4 (7.27%) Visual Studio
6 3 (5.45%) Cypress.io
6 3 (5.45%) JUnit
6 3 (5.45%) LoadRunner
6 3 (5.45%) Toad
7 2 (3.64%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.64%) GitLab
8 1 (1.82%) Crashlytics
8 1 (1.82%) Gradle
8 1 (1.82%) Pa11y
8 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.82%) TestCafe
8 1 (1.82%) Travis CI
General
1 17 (30.91%) Finance
2 13 (23.64%) Social Skills
3 10 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.73%) Banking
5 5 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.09%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.82%) Electronics
6 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.82%) Marketing
6 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (32.73%) Senior
2 17 (30.91%) Test Engineer
3 13 (23.64%) Senior Test Engineer
4 12 (21.82%) Test Manager
5 9 (16.36%) Analyst
5 9 (16.36%) Lead
6 6 (10.91%) Test Analyst
6 6 (10.91%) Test Automation Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) Test Leader
6 6 (10.91%) Tester
7 4 (7.27%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Financial Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) Functional Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) Functional Test Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) Oracle Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) SEO Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) Telephony Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) Playwright
2 4 (7.27%) .NET
2 4 (7.27%) AngularJS
2 4 (7.27%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.82%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (1.82%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.82%) Dagger
3 1 (1.82%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (1.82%) Node.js
3 1 (1.82%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.45%) Online Banking
1 3 (5.45%) Public Cloud
2 2 (3.64%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.64%) Equities
2 2 (3.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.82%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.91%) Windows
2 3 (5.45%) Unix
3 1 (1.82%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (45.45%) Functional Testing
2 23 (41.82%) Test Automation
3 22 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 15 (27.27%) Agile
4 15 (27.27%) DevOps
5 14 (25.45%) Test Management
6 12 (21.82%) Performance Testing
6 12 (21.82%) Security Testing
7 11 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (20.00%) Software Testing
7 11 (20.00%) Test Scripting
8 10 (18.18%) Integration Testing
9 9 (16.36%) CI/CD
9 9 (16.36%) Load Testing
9 9 (16.36%) Migration
10 8 (14.55%) Scenario Testing
10 8 (14.55%) SDLC
10 8 (14.55%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (12.73%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.18%) SQL
2 7 (12.73%) Java
2 7 (12.73%) TypeScript
3 6 (10.91%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.09%) Python
5 3 (5.45%) C#
5 3 (5.45%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.64%) Bash
6 2 (3.64%) C
7 1 (1.82%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.82%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.73%) ISTQB
4 6 (10.91%) Degree
5 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.45%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.64%) CCNA
6 2 (3.64%) CCNP
6 2 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.64%) ISEB
6 2 (3.64%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 7 (12.73%) QA
3 2 (3.64%) PMO
4 1 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.45%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (3.64%) Grafana
3 1 (1.82%) Kibana
3 1 (1.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (12.73%) Oracle
2 3 (5.45%) Google
2 3 (5.45%) Microgen
3 2 (3.64%) SAP
4 1 (1.82%) Cognos
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.82%) Pega