Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 21 August 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 21 August 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
21 Aug 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 488 514 465
Rank change year-on-year +26 -49 -84
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 471 379 531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.40% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.46% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 244 380
UK median daily rate £438 £415 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.42% +3.75% +8.84%
10th Percentile £315 £300 £263
90th Percentile £575 £584 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £350
% change year-on-year +6.25% +14.29% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
UK median hourly rate £25.00 - £43.50
10th Percentile £17.00 - £36.92
90th Percentile £29.60 - £46.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 - £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 88,010 81,989 92,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 85.54% 84.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 58,032 53,704 60,739
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +5.88% +6.25%
10th Percentile £300 £275 £263
90th Percentile £638 £625 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +6.25% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,377 2,066 2,306
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £23.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -16.00% +6.38% +9.05%
10th Percentile £11.17 £11.44 £11.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £50.08 £47.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £25.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +11.14%

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 21 August 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
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 21 August 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 +42 430 £450 +11.11% 82
UK excluding London +1 266 £425 +6.25% 54
London +35 198 £475 -5.00% 34
North of England +39 87 £425 +13.33% 16
South East -36 76 £425 +6.25% 8
Yorkshire +20 50 £408 +4.82% 7
North West +7 32 £450 +20.00% 8
Midlands -22 31 £438 +6.06% 7
West Midlands -24 22 £413 +26.92% 5
East of England -8 20 £483 +48.46% 7
South West -11 18 £350 +6.06% 10
Scotland -45 17 £406 -2.11% 4
Wales -5 15 £390 -22.00% 2
East Midlands -19 8 £500 +17.65% 2
North East -1 5 £342 +5.23% 1
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £475 -

For the 6 months to 21 August 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.

1 276 (58.60%) Agile Software Development
2 252 (53.50%) Test Automation
3 184 (39.07%) Functional Testing
4 126 (26.75%) Java
5 119 (25.27%) Selenium
6 114 (24.20%) JMeter
7 113 (23.99%) Performance Testing
8 106 (22.51%) Test Strategy
9 105 (22.29%) Continuous Integration
10 100 (21.23%) BDD
11 99 (21.02%) Scrum
12 84 (17.83%) JIRA
13 83 (17.62%) QA
14 82 (17.41%) Finance
15 81 (17.20%) Test Scripting
16 80 (16.99%) Cucumber
16 80 (16.99%) SQL
17 76 (16.14%) TDD
18 73 (15.50%) Jenkins
19 69 (14.65%) User Acceptance Testing
20 68 (14.44%) Software Testing
21 67 (14.23%) JavaScript
22 61 (12.95%) ISTQB
22 61 (12.95%) DevOps
23 57 (12.10%) WebDriver
24 56 (11.89%) Amazon AWS
25 55 (11.68%) RESTful
25 55 (11.68%) C#
25 55 (11.68%) Continuous Delivery
26 54 (11.46%) Defect Management

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 41 (8.70%) Confluence
2 21 (4.46%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.82%) Apache Spark
4 17 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (2.34%) Cloud Foundry
6 10 (2.12%) CMS
7 9 (1.91%) Apache
8 8 (1.70%) BizTalk Server
8 8 (1.70%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (1.49%) Apache Solr
10 5 (1.06%) IIS
11 4 (0.85%) Mule
11 4 (0.85%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.64%) Oracle Service Bus
12 3 (0.64%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.42%) CoreMedia CMS
13 2 (0.42%) Documentum
13 2 (0.42%) MS Exchange
14 1 (0.21%) Alfresco
14 1 (0.21%) Drupal
Applications
1 13 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.49%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.27%) Oracle Financials
2 5 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.85%) HFM
4 3 (0.64%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.64%) Oracle Retail
4 3 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.64%) thinkFolio
5 2 (0.42%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.42%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.21%) LatentZero
6 1 (0.21%) Minerva
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.21%) RMDS
6 1 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 56 (11.89%) Amazon AWS
2 31 (6.58%) Microsoft Azure
3 15 (3.18%) GitHub
4 14 (2.97%) BrowserStack
5 11 (2.34%) Office 365
6 10 (2.12%) PaaS
6 10 (2.12%) Sauce Labs
7 9 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (1.91%) Serverless
8 7 (1.49%) BlazeMeter
9 4 (0.85%) Akamai
9 4 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.64%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.42%) Adobe Analytics
11 2 (0.42%) Google Cloud Platform
11 2 (0.42%) IBM Cloud
11 2 (0.42%) SaaS
12 1 (0.21%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.40%) HTTP
2 14 (2.97%) SMS
3 11 (2.34%) Firewall
4 9 (1.91%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.06%) Internet
5 5 (1.06%) SAN
6 3 (0.64%) DNS
7 2 (0.42%) DHCP
7 2 (0.42%) FTP
7 2 (0.42%) LAN
7 2 (0.42%) Network Security
7 2 (0.42%) PuTTY
7 2 (0.42%) WAN
7 2 (0.42%) WinSCP
7 2 (0.42%) WLAN
8 1 (0.21%) Broadband
8 1 (0.21%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.21%) NAS
8 1 (0.21%) Skype
8 1 (0.21%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.31%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.46%) MySQL
3 18 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (3.40%) Apache Cassandra
4 16 (3.40%) Hadoop
4 16 (3.40%) Relational Database
5 15 (3.18%) HBase
6 14 (2.97%) MongoDB
7 13 (2.76%) Oracle Database
8 9 (1.91%) Amazon DynamoDB
8 9 (1.91%) Big Data
8 9 (1.91%) DB2
8 9 (1.91%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.70%) Data Mining
9 8 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.06%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.85%) Hazelcast
12 3 (0.64%) Impala
12 3 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.64%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 119 (25.27%) Selenium
2 114 (24.20%) JMeter
3 84 (17.83%) JIRA
4 80 (16.99%) Cucumber
5 73 (15.50%) Jenkins
6 57 (12.10%) WebDriver
7 52 (11.04%) LoadRunner
8 47 (9.98%) SoapUI
9 43 (9.13%) Git (software)
10 28 (5.94%) JUnit
11 22 (4.67%) Gatling
11 22 (4.67%) Protractor
11 22 (4.67%) SpecFlow
11 22 (4.67%) Team Foundation Server
12 21 (4.46%) Visual Studio
13 20 (4.25%) Visual Studio Team System
14 16 (3.40%) Maven
15 11 (2.34%) JBehave
15 11 (2.34%) Mockito
15 11 (2.34%) TeamCity
General
1 82 (17.41%) Finance
2 43 (9.13%) Banking
3 15 (3.18%) Retail
4 11 (2.34%) Investment Banking
5 10 (2.12%) Advertising
6 8 (1.70%) Marketing
7 7 (1.49%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.27%) German Language
8 6 (1.27%) Legal
9 5 (1.06%) Games
9 5 (1.06%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.64%) Billing
11 3 (0.64%) Electronics
11 3 (0.64%) Law
12 2 (0.42%) Front Office
12 2 (0.42%) Military
12 2 (0.42%) Online Betting
12 2 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.21%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 101 (21.44%) Analyst
2 100 (21.23%) Tester
3 83 (17.62%) Test Analyst
4 57 (12.10%) Test Leader
5 54 (11.46%) Test Manager
6 52 (11.04%) Developer
7 36 (7.64%) Test Engineer
8 31 (6.58%) Automation Tester
9 21 (4.46%) Automation Test Analyst
10 19 (4.03%) Test Automation Engineer
11 18 (3.82%) Non-Functional Tester
12 17 (3.61%) Developer in Test
12 17 (3.61%) Java Developer
12 17 (3.61%) Performance Test Leader
13 15 (3.18%) Performance Tester
14 14 (2.97%) Agile Tester
15 13 (2.76%) Architect
15 13 (2.76%) Senior Analyst
16 12 (2.55%) Automation Engineer
17 11 (2.34%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (11.68%) RESTful
2 49 (10.40%) Web Services
3 43 (9.13%) XML
4 31 (6.58%) .NET
4 31 (6.58%) JSON
5 30 (6.37%) REST
6 18 (3.82%) SOAP
7 17 (3.61%) Dropwizard
7 17 (3.61%) Gherkin
7 17 (3.61%) HTML
8 16 (3.40%) AngularJS
9 14 (2.97%) Spring
10 12 (2.55%) CSS
10 12 (2.55%) Java EE
11 10 (2.12%) Doctrine
12 9 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (1.91%) Kafka
12 9 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (1.49%) HTML5
14 6 (1.27%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (5.52%) Mobile App
3 18 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
4 17 (3.61%) Data Centre
5 9 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (1.91%) Mainframe
5 9 (1.91%) User Experience
6 8 (1.70%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.27%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.27%) NHS
8 4 (0.85%) Fintech
8 4 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (0.85%) N-Tier
8 4 (0.85%) Private Cloud
8 4 (0.85%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.64%) Derivative
9 3 (0.64%) PlayStation
10 2 (0.42%) Computer Science
10 2 (0.42%) OTC Derivatives
10 2 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (9.55%) Unix
2 35 (7.43%) Linux
3 23 (4.88%) Windows
4 14 (2.97%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.91%) Android
5 9 (1.91%) VMS
6 7 (1.49%) Solaris
7 5 (1.06%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.06%) zOS
8 4 (0.85%) AIX
9 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.42%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.21%) CentOS
11 1 (0.21%) HPUX
11 1 (0.21%) SUSE
11 1 (0.21%) VME
11 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (58.60%) Agile Software Development
2 252 (53.50%) Test Automation
3 184 (39.07%) Functional Testing
4 113 (23.99%) Performance Testing
5 106 (22.51%) Test Strategy
6 105 (22.29%) Continuous Integration
7 100 (21.23%) BDD
8 99 (21.02%) Scrum
9 81 (17.20%) Test Scripting
10 76 (16.14%) TDD
11 69 (14.65%) User Acceptance Testing
12 68 (14.44%) Software Testing
13 61 (12.95%) DevOps
14 55 (11.68%) Continuous Delivery
15 54 (11.46%) Defect Management
16 48 (10.19%) Integration Testing
17 47 (9.98%) Operational Acceptance Testing
17 47 (9.98%) Test Management
18 45 (9.55%) Kanban
18 45 (9.55%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 126 (26.75%) Java
2 80 (16.99%) SQL
3 67 (14.23%) JavaScript
4 55 (11.68%) C#
5 20 (4.25%) Python
6 14 (2.97%) Ruby
7 12 (2.55%) PHP
7 12 (2.55%) Shell Script
8 11 (2.34%) Groovy
9 10 (2.12%) PHP 7
9 10 (2.12%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.91%) Scala
11 8 (1.70%) C
12 6 (1.27%) Apple Swift
12 6 (1.27%) Java 8
12 6 (1.27%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.06%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.85%) VB
15 3 (0.64%) Erlang
16 2 (0.42%) C++
Qualifications
1 61 (12.95%) ISTQB
2 47 (9.98%) Security Cleared
3 41 (8.70%) ISEB
4 34 (7.22%) SC Cleared
5 20 (4.25%) Degree
6 15 (3.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 8 (1.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 7 (1.49%) ISEB Practitioner
9 6 (1.27%) BC Cleared
9 6 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.85%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.21%) MCP
12 1 (0.21%) OCP
12 1 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (17.62%) QA
2 9 (1.91%) GDPR
2 9 (1.91%) SLA
3 7 (1.49%) PMO
4 4 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.21%) GCP
6 1 (0.21%) MiFID
6 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (5.31%) Docker
2 14 (2.97%) HDFS
3 9 (1.91%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.42%) vSphere
6 1 (0.21%) IAG
6 1 (0.21%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.21%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 18 (3.82%) HP ALM
2 16 (3.40%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.18%) logstash
4 13 (2.76%) HP Quality Center
5 12 (2.55%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.91%) Kibana
7 8 (1.70%) Puppet
8 7 (1.49%) Ansible
9 4 (0.85%) Business Desktop Deployment
9 4 (0.85%) Terraform
10 3 (0.64%) Rancher
10 3 (0.64%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.42%) Oozie
11 2 (0.42%) Salt
12 1 (0.21%) AirWatch
12 1 (0.21%) Backup Exec
12 1 (0.21%) Grafana
12 1 (0.21%) Nessus
12 1 (0.21%) SCCM
12 1 (0.21%) SCOM
Vendors
1 45 (9.55%) Oracle
2 34 (7.22%) Microsoft
3 26 (5.52%) HP
4 14 (2.97%) Atlassian
5 13 (2.76%) AppDynamics
6 11 (2.34%) SAP
7 10 (2.12%) Zend
8 9 (1.91%) Hyperion
9 8 (1.70%) Nintex
9 8 (1.70%) SOASTA, Inc
10 7 (1.49%) Workday
11 6 (1.27%) Concur
11 6 (1.27%) IBM
11 6 (1.27%) Murex
12 5 (1.06%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.06%) VMware
13 4 (0.85%) Apple
13 4 (0.85%) ArcSight
14 3 (0.64%) McAfee
14 3 (0.64%) Red Hat