Non-Functional Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 341 374
Rank change year-on-year +52 +33 -58
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 47 58 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.28% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.33% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 47 68
10th Percentile £263 £393 £363
25th Percentile £361 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £524 £590 £575
90th Percentile £600 £610 £625
UK median daily rate £515 £542 £545
% change year-on-year -4.96% -0.60% +14.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £90.00
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +157.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
North of England +18 13 £430 -7.03% 6
Midlands +29 11 £391 -8.00% 2
Yorkshire +17 11 £455 +7.06% 1
South East +47 8 £400 -3.03% 12
East of England +35 6 £600 +26.32% 4
South West +34 6 £500 -13.79% 7
West Midlands +17 6 £190 -47.59% 1
East Midlands +14 5 £433 -13.40% 1
Scotland +9 3 £425 -32.00% 1
North West +9 1 £320 -32.63% 3
North East -2 1 £460 +12.20% 2
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 8 (17.02%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) JBoss
2 2 (4.26%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.13%) Appian
3 1 (2.13%) CICS
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.51%) SAP ERP
1 4 (8.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.17%) Azure
2 12 (25.53%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (21.28%) AWS
4 8 (17.02%) GitHub
5 3 (6.38%) GCP
6 2 (4.26%) OpenShift
6 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.13%) BrowserStack
7 1 (2.13%) Datadog
7 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.13%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) HTTP
2 1 (2.13%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.64%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (10.64%) MongoDB
1 5 (10.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.26%) InfluxDB
2 2 (4.26%) MS Access
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.13%) DB2
3 1 (2.13%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.13%) Power BI
3 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (42.55%) JIRA
2 17 (36.17%) Selenium
3 14 (29.79%) Jenkins
4 12 (25.53%) Git
4 12 (25.53%) JMeter
5 11 (23.40%) Postman
6 8 (17.02%) LoadRunner
7 6 (12.77%) Cucumber
8 5 (10.64%) Cypress.io
8 5 (10.64%) NeoLoad
9 4 (8.51%) GitLab
9 4 (8.51%) Gradle
9 4 (8.51%) HP UFT
9 4 (8.51%) IntelliJ
9 4 (8.51%) JUnit
9 4 (8.51%) Maven
9 4 (8.51%) SoapUI
10 3 (6.38%) Bitbucket
10 3 (6.38%) Travis CI
10 3 (6.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (55.32%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Finance
3 5 (10.64%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (8.51%) Banking
4 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.38%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.13%) Back Office
6 1 (2.13%) Electronics
6 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.13%) Marketing
6 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Tester
2 7 (14.89%) Analyst
2 7 (14.89%) Lead
2 7 (14.89%) QA Tester
2 7 (14.89%) Senior
3 6 (12.77%) Test Analyst
3 6 (12.77%) Test Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Test Leader
4 4 (8.51%) Test Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) QA Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) QA Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Senior QA Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Telecoms Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Test Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.77%) .NET
2 4 (8.51%) Web Services
3 3 (6.38%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.38%) Playwright
4 2 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (4.26%) HTML
4 2 (4.26%) J2EE
4 2 (4.26%) Middleware
4 2 (4.26%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.13%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.13%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.13%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.13%) ISPF
5 1 (2.13%) JSON
5 1 (2.13%) Kafka
5 1 (2.13%) Node.js
5 1 (2.13%) PySpark
5 1 (2.13%) Spring
5 1 (2.13%) WPF
5 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) FMCG
1 5 (10.64%) Life Science
2 2 (4.26%) Replication
3 1 (2.13%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.13%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) EPoS
3 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.13%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Unix
1 4 (8.51%) Windows
2 2 (4.26%) AIX
2 2 (4.26%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (76.60%) Agile
2 35 (74.47%) Test Automation
3 24 (51.06%) Test Strategy
4 23 (48.94%) DevOps
5 18 (38.30%) Performance Testing
6 15 (31.91%) CI/CD
6 15 (31.91%) Test Scripting
7 14 (29.79%) Functional Testing
8 13 (27.66%) Software Testing
9 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (25.53%) Test Management
10 11 (23.40%) API Testing
11 10 (21.28%) Manual Testing
11 10 (21.28%) Security Testing
11 10 (21.28%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (21.28%) Validation
12 9 (19.15%) Code Quality
12 9 (19.15%) Waterfall
13 8 (17.02%) Collaborative Working
13 8 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.15%) SQL
2 8 (17.02%) Python
3 7 (14.89%) Java
4 6 (12.77%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.64%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.38%) Bash
6 3 (6.38%) C#
7 2 (4.26%) C
7 2 (4.26%) Go
7 2 (4.26%) Perl
8 1 (2.13%) JCL
8 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.02%) ISTQB
3 7 (14.89%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.64%) Degree
5 4 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (8.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (6.38%) CEH
6 3 (6.38%) CISSP
6 3 (6.38%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.13%) ISEB
7 1 (2.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (51.06%) QA
2 7 (14.89%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.38%) GxP
3 3 (6.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (4.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (14.89%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.13%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Kibana
1 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.26%) CA Wily
2 2 (4.26%) Grafana
2 2 (4.26%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.13%) CA Endevor
3 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) Microsoft
1 7 (14.89%) Oracle
2 6 (12.77%) SAP
3 5 (10.64%) Splunk
4 4 (8.51%) AppDynamics
5 2 (4.26%) Citrix
5 2 (4.26%) Google
5 2 (4.26%) IBM
5 2 (4.26%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.26%) VMware
6 1 (2.13%) Ariba
6 1 (2.13%) Cisco
6 1 (2.13%) Confluent
6 1 (2.13%) HP
6 1 (2.13%) Informatica
6 1 (2.13%) StreamSets