Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 23 April 2018

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 23 April 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
UK
6 months to
23 Apr 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 492 478 405
Rank change year-on-year -14 -73 +44
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 422 394 605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.43% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.51% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 282 436
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £395
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +6.25% +1.27% +4.64%
10th Percentile £300 £263 £258
90th Percentile £575 £612 £526
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £363 £336
% change year-on-year +10.34% +7.81% -7.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
UK median hourly rate £46.50 - £43.50
10th Percentile £31.45 - £40.18
90th Percentile £63.55 - £46.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 - £43.50

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,549 77,649 88,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.61% 84.40% 83.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 57,159 51,086 57,973
UK median daily rate £450 £438 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +2.86% +2.94% +6.25%
10th Percentile £300 £270 £263
90th Percentile £638 £620 £606
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £400 £393
% change year-on-year +5.00% +1.91% +4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,222 2,114 2,429
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -10.00% - +20.34%
10th Percentile £11.18 £11.38 £11.50
90th Percentile £50.25 £51.25 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.33 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -14.70% -1.96% +15.91%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Non-Functional Testing as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing.

Contractor daily rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months to 23 April 2018.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Non-Functional Testing.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months to 23 April 2018.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 April 2018. 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
Job
Vacancies
England -34 348 £434 +2.66% 83
UK excluding London -37 225 £400 +10.34% 63
London -39 189 £450 -5.26% 29
South East -37 50 £400 +3.90% 18
North of England +12 43 £400 +23.08% 18
Midlands -25 32 £406 +12.07% 2
Scotland -26 31 £419 +6.35% 3
Yorkshire -5 27 £400 +16.36% 4
West Midlands +1 18 £325 +8.33%
South West +13 17 £375 +82.26% 4
Northern Ireland +4 17 £320 +22.84% 1
East of England -5 16 £475 +22.58% 12
Wales +4 15 £380 -7.88% 5
North West -3 15 £450 +38.46% 12
East Midlands -14 14 £450 +12.50% 2
Channel Islands - 4 - -
North East +23 1 - - 2

For the 6 months to 23 April 2018, IT contractor jobs citing Non-Functional Testing also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Non-Functional Testing.

1 240 (56.87%) Agile Software Development
2 225 (53.32%) Test Automation
3 193 (45.73%) Functional Testing
4 137 (32.46%) Java
5 99 (23.46%) Selenium
6 94 (22.27%) JMeter
7 92 (21.80%) Performance Testing
8 90 (21.33%) User Acceptance Testing
9 85 (20.14%) Finance
9 85 (20.14%) Scrum
10 83 (19.67%) QA
11 82 (19.43%) Continuous Integration
12 75 (17.77%) Test Strategy
13 73 (17.30%) TDD
14 72 (17.06%) BDD
15 70 (16.59%) Cucumber
15 70 (16.59%) Test Scripting
15 70 (16.59%) JavaScript
16 65 (15.40%) JIRA
17 62 (14.69%) Jenkins
18 61 (14.45%) SQL
19 58 (13.74%) LoadRunner
20 56 (13.27%) Banking
20 56 (13.27%) Operational Acceptance Testing
21 54 (12.80%) HP
22 52 (12.32%) ISTQB
23 48 (11.37%) Test Management
24 47 (11.14%) System Integration Testing
25 45 (10.66%) C#
26 44 (10.43%) Oracle

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (6.40%) Confluence
2 19 (4.50%) Apache
3 13 (3.08%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.13%) Tomcat
5 8 (1.90%) Cloud Foundry
5 8 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.66%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.66%) CMS
6 7 (1.66%) MS Exchange
7 6 (1.42%) BizTalk Server
8 5 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (1.18%) SharePoint Server
8 5 (1.18%) WebLogic
8 5 (1.18%) WebLogic Integration
8 5 (1.18%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.71%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.71%) IIS
9 3 (0.71%) Mule
10 2 (0.47%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.47%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.95%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.18%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (0.95%) SAP CO
2 4 (0.95%) SAP FI
2 4 (0.95%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.71%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.47%) SAP CRM for Utilities
4 2 (0.47%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.24%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.24%) Maximo
5 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 37 (8.77%) Amazon AWS
2 26 (6.16%) Microsoft Azure
3 14 (3.32%) Office 365
4 9 (2.13%) GitHub
5 7 (1.66%) PaaS
5 7 (1.66%) Sauce Labs
6 5 (1.18%) BrowserStack
7 4 (0.95%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (0.95%) SaaS
7 4 (0.95%) Serverless
7 4 (0.95%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.47%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (0.47%) BlazeMeter
8 2 (0.47%) Heroku
8 2 (0.47%) npm
8 2 (0.47%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (0.24%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.24%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.69%) HTTP
2 16 (3.79%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.84%) Firewall
4 11 (2.61%) SMS
5 10 (2.37%) Internet
6 7 (1.66%) FTP
6 7 (1.66%) SAN
7 4 (0.95%) PuTTY
7 4 (0.95%) WAN
7 4 (0.95%) WinSCP
8 3 (0.71%) DNS
9 2 (0.47%) NAS
9 2 (0.47%) Network Security
9 2 (0.47%) VPN
9 2 (0.47%) WLAN
10 1 (0.24%) DHCP
10 1 (0.24%) Extranet
10 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.24%) SMTP
10 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.21%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.50%) NoSQL
3 17 (4.03%) Apache Cassandra
4 15 (3.55%) Oracle Database
5 8 (1.90%) HBase
6 7 (1.66%) Hadoop
6 7 (1.66%) Oracle Database 11g
7 6 (1.42%) Big Data
7 6 (1.42%) DB2
7 6 (1.42%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.18%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.18%) MS Access
8 5 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (1.18%) SQL Server 2012
9 4 (0.95%) Amazon DynamoDB
9 4 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.95%) Oracle Database 10g
9 4 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.95%) SQL Server 2016
Development Applications
1 99 (23.46%) Selenium
2 94 (22.27%) JMeter
3 70 (16.59%) Cucumber
4 65 (15.40%) JIRA
5 62 (14.69%) Jenkins
6 58 (13.74%) LoadRunner
7 44 (10.43%) SoapUI
8 42 (9.95%) Git (software)
9 36 (8.53%) WebDriver
10 34 (8.06%) JUnit
11 22 (5.21%) Protractor
12 18 (4.27%) Gatling
13 17 (4.03%) Team Foundation Server
14 16 (3.79%) Gradle
15 15 (3.55%) Mockito
15 15 (3.55%) SpecFlow
16 14 (3.32%) Visual Studio
16 14 (3.32%) Zephyr
17 11 (2.61%) TestNG
18 10 (2.37%) HP UFT
General
1 85 (20.14%) Finance
2 56 (13.27%) Banking
3 15 (3.55%) Retail
4 11 (2.61%) Investment Banking
5 8 (1.90%) Games
6 6 (1.42%) German Language
7 5 (1.18%) Advertising
7 5 (1.18%) Billing
7 5 (1.18%) Financial Institution
8 4 (0.95%) Law
9 3 (0.71%) Front Office
9 3 (0.71%) Legal
9 3 (0.71%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.71%) Publishing
10 2 (0.47%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.24%) Back Office
11 1 (0.24%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.24%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (21.56%) Analyst
2 81 (19.19%) Tester
3 75 (17.77%) Test Analyst
4 54 (12.80%) Test Manager
5 52 (12.32%) Test Leader
6 51 (12.09%) Developer
7 42 (9.95%) Test Engineer
8 28 (6.64%) Automation Tester
9 23 (5.45%) Developer in Test
10 21 (4.98%) Java Developer
11 20 (4.74%) Test Automation Engineer
12 18 (4.27%) QA Engineer
13 16 (3.79%) Performance Engineer
14 15 (3.55%) Consultant
15 14 (3.32%) QA Leader
15 14 (3.32%) Software Test Engineer
16 12 (2.84%) QA Analyst
16 12 (2.84%) QA Tester
16 12 (2.84%) Software Tester
17 11 (2.61%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (10.19%) Web Services
2 36 (8.53%) REST
2 36 (8.53%) RESTful
3 35 (8.29%) XML
4 23 (5.45%) JSON
5 21 (4.98%) .NET
5 21 (4.98%) Gherkin
6 20 (4.74%) Dropwizard
7 17 (4.03%) Spring
8 16 (3.79%) SOAP
9 13 (3.08%) HTML
10 11 (2.61%) Guice
10 11 (2.61%) Ratpack
11 10 (2.37%) AngularJS
11 10 (2.37%) FIX Protocol
11 10 (2.37%) J2EE
11 10 (2.37%) Kafka
12 9 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (1.66%) Swagger
14 6 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (5.21%) Mobile App
3 21 (4.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 18 (4.27%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (2.84%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.37%) Mainframe
7 7 (1.66%) NHS
7 7 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.42%) User Experience
9 5 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.18%) N-Tier
10 4 (0.95%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.95%) iPad
10 4 (0.95%) iPhone
10 4 (0.95%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.95%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.71%) Fat Client
11 3 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.71%) PlayStation
Operating Systems
1 42 (9.95%) Unix
2 31 (7.35%) Linux
3 23 (5.45%) Windows
4 11 (2.61%) Android
5 10 (2.37%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.90%) Windows Server
7 6 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.18%) HPUX
8 5 (1.18%) Solaris
8 5 (1.18%) SUSE
8 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.71%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.71%) zOS
10 2 (0.47%) AIX
10 2 (0.47%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.24%) CentOS
11 1 (0.24%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.24%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (56.87%) Agile Software Development
2 225 (53.32%) Test Automation
3 193 (45.73%) Functional Testing
4 92 (21.80%) Performance Testing
5 90 (21.33%) User Acceptance Testing
6 85 (20.14%) Scrum
7 82 (19.43%) Continuous Integration
8 75 (17.77%) Test Strategy
9 73 (17.30%) TDD
10 72 (17.06%) BDD
11 70 (16.59%) Test Scripting
12 56 (13.27%) Operational Acceptance Testing
13 48 (11.37%) Test Management
14 47 (11.14%) System Integration Testing
15 44 (10.43%) Continuous Delivery
16 40 (9.48%) Problem-Solving
16 40 (9.48%) Regression Testing
17 39 (9.24%) Stakeholder Management
18 37 (8.77%) Software Testing
19 36 (8.53%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 137 (32.46%) Java
2 70 (16.59%) JavaScript
3 61 (14.45%) SQL
4 45 (10.66%) C#
5 38 (9.00%) Ruby
6 32 (7.58%) Python
7 21 (4.98%) Groovy
8 10 (2.37%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.90%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.66%) Scala
11 5 (1.18%) FoxPro (VFP)
11 5 (1.18%) Java 8
11 5 (1.18%) VB
12 4 (0.95%) C
12 4 (0.95%) F#
13 3 (0.71%) Perl
14 2 (0.47%) Bash Shell
14 2 (0.47%) Korn
14 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 52 (12.32%) ISTQB
2 35 (8.29%) Security Cleared
3 32 (7.58%) ISEB
4 26 (6.16%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.27%) Degree
6 10 (2.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 8 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.95%) BC Cleared
8 4 (0.95%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.24%) ISEB Practitioner
9 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (19.67%) QA
2 6 (1.42%) SLA
3 5 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.71%) GDPR
4 3 (0.71%) PMO
5 2 (0.47%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.24%) HL7
6 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (5.21%) Docker
2 7 (1.66%) HDFS
3 6 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.95%) vSphere
5 3 (0.71%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.47%) Oracle Clusterware
6 2 (0.47%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.24%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.24%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 35 (8.29%) HP ALM
2 18 (4.27%) HP Quality Center
3 17 (4.03%) Kubernetes
4 9 (2.13%) logstash
5 8 (1.90%) HP SiteScope
5 8 (1.90%) OpenView
6 7 (1.66%) Kibana
7 6 (1.42%) Ansible
7 6 (1.42%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.18%) Puppet
9 4 (0.95%) Opscode Chef
10 3 (0.71%) CA Service Virtualization
10 3 (0.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.47%) Business Desktop Deployment
11 2 (0.47%) Tivoli
11 2 (0.47%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 2 (0.47%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.24%) Nagios
12 1 (0.24%) SCCM
12 1 (0.24%) SCOM
Vendors
1 54 (12.80%) HP
2 44 (10.43%) Oracle
3 31 (7.35%) Microsoft
4 22 (5.21%) SAP
5 11 (2.61%) Concur
6 8 (1.90%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.66%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.42%) Citrix
8 6 (1.42%) Salesforce.com
8 6 (1.42%) TIBCO
8 6 (1.42%) VMware
9 5 (1.18%) IBM
9 5 (1.18%) Nintex
9 5 (1.18%) SOASTA, Inc
10 4 (0.95%) Murex
10 4 (0.95%) Software AG
10 4 (0.95%) webMethods
11 3 (0.71%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.71%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.71%) Workday