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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 331 372
Rank change year-on-year +33 +41 -62
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 45 56 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.28% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.33% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 45 64
10th Percentile £263 £358 £363
25th Percentile £361 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £524 £590 £575
90th Percentile £600 £615 £625
UK median daily rate £520 £530 £540
% change year-on-year -1.93% -1.85% +13.68%
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 11,601 17,153 20,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.50% 84.38% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,223 10,226 14,391
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 837 2,053 1,276
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.31 £10.93
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.25 £15.40
Median hourly rate £25.43 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.08% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.82 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -22.48% +0.29% +41.73%

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 15 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 15 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 +17 15 £460 -3.16% 22
Yorkshire +26 12 £455 +7.06% 14
Midlands +22 9 £391 +7.86% 4
South East +51 8 £400 -23.81% 23
South West +33 5 £525 -11.02% 15
East of England +28 5 £600 +26.32% 4
East Midlands +13 5 £433 +19.45% 1
West Midlands +16 4 £190 -47.59% 3
Scotland +5 3 £425 -32.00% 5
North West +1 2 £405 -14.74% 5
North East -4 1 £460 +12.20% 3
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 (17.78%) Confluence
2 2 (4.44%) JBoss
2 2 (4.44%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.22%) CICS
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) SAP ERP
1 4 (8.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (35.56%) Azure
2 11 (24.44%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (22.22%) AWS
4 8 (17.78%) GitHub
5 3 (6.67%) GCP
6 2 (4.44%) OpenShift
6 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.22%) BrowserStack
7 1 (2.22%) Datadog
7 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) HTTP
2 1 (2.22%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (2.22%) Firewall
2 1 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 5 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.44%) InfluxDB
2 2 (4.44%) MS Access
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.22%) DB2
3 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.22%) Power BI
3 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (44.44%) JIRA
2 17 (37.78%) Selenium
3 14 (31.11%) Jenkins
4 12 (26.67%) Git
4 12 (26.67%) JMeter
4 12 (26.67%) Postman
5 8 (17.78%) LoadRunner
6 7 (15.56%) Cucumber
7 6 (13.33%) Cypress.io
7 6 (13.33%) GitLab
8 5 (11.11%) JUnit
8 5 (11.11%) Maven
8 5 (11.11%) NeoLoad
9 4 (8.89%) Gradle
9 4 (8.89%) HP UFT
9 4 (8.89%) IntelliJ
9 4 (8.89%) REST Assured
9 4 (8.89%) SoapUI
9 4 (8.89%) TestNG
10 3 (6.67%) Travis CI
General
1 26 (57.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Finance
3 5 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.89%) Banking
5 3 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Back Office
6 1 (2.22%) Electronics
6 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.22%) Marketing
6 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Tech for Good
6 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Tester
2 9 (20.00%) Senior
3 8 (17.78%) Test Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Lead
4 7 (15.56%) QA Tester
5 6 (13.33%) Analyst
5 6 (13.33%) Test Leader
6 5 (11.11%) Test Analyst
7 4 (8.89%) Senior Test Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Test Manager
8 3 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) QA Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Senior QA Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Senior Test Analyst
9 2 (4.44%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Test Automation Engineer
10 1 (2.22%) Automation Tester
10 1 (2.22%) Azure Engineer
10 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) .NET
1 5 (11.11%) Playwright
2 4 (8.89%) Web Services
3 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (4.44%) HTML
4 2 (4.44%) J2EE
4 2 (4.44%) Middleware
4 2 (4.44%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.22%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.22%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.22%) ISPF
5 1 (2.22%) JSON
5 1 (2.22%) Kafka
5 1 (2.22%) Node.js
5 1 (2.22%) PySpark
5 1 (2.22%) Spring
5 1 (2.22%) WPF
5 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) FMCG
1 5 (11.11%) Life Science
2 2 (4.44%) Replication
3 1 (2.22%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) EPoS
3 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Unix
1 4 (8.89%) Windows
2 2 (4.44%) AIX
2 2 (4.44%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (77.78%) Agile
2 33 (73.33%) Test Automation
3 22 (48.89%) DevOps
4 21 (46.67%) Test Strategy
5 16 (35.56%) CI/CD
5 16 (35.56%) Performance Testing
5 16 (35.56%) Test Scripting
6 12 (26.67%) Functional Testing
6 12 (26.67%) Software Testing
7 11 (24.44%) API Testing
7 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (22.22%) Manual Testing
8 10 (22.22%) Security Testing
8 10 (22.22%) Test Management
9 9 (20.00%) Code Quality
9 9 (20.00%) Validation
9 9 (20.00%) Waterfall
10 8 (17.78%) BDD
10 8 (17.78%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (17.78%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.00%) Java
2 8 (17.78%) Python
2 8 (17.78%) SQL
3 7 (15.56%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.67%) Bash
5 3 (6.67%) C#
6 2 (4.44%) C
6 2 (4.44%) Go
6 2 (4.44%) Perl
7 1 (2.22%) JCL
7 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.56%) ISTQB
2 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.11%) Degree
4 4 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (8.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (6.67%) CEH
5 3 (6.67%) CISSP
5 3 (6.67%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.22%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (46.67%) QA
2 8 (17.78%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.67%) GxP
3 3 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (4.44%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (2.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (17.78%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.22%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) Kibana
1 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.67%) Grafana
3 2 (4.44%) CA Wily
3 2 (4.44%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.22%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.33%) Oracle
2 6 (13.33%) SAP
3 5 (11.11%) Splunk
4 4 (8.89%) AppDynamics
5 2 (4.44%) Citrix
5 2 (4.44%) Google
5 2 (4.44%) IBM
5 2 (4.44%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.44%) VMware
6 1 (2.22%) Ariba
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco
6 1 (2.22%) Confluent
6 1 (2.22%) HP
6 1 (2.22%) Informatica
6 1 (2.22%) StreamSets