Non-Functional Testing Contracts in the West Midlands

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 91 108 134
Rank change year-on-year +17 +26 -17
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 6 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.45% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.18% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £311 £295
25th Percentile £185 £328 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £363 £450
Median % change year-on-year -47.59% -19.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £195 £403 £475
90th Percentile - £424 £490
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Non-Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in the West Midlands

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in the West Midlands

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in the West Midlands

Non-Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +18 4 - - 1
Walsall - 1 - -
Non-Functional Testing
England

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
2 3 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) GitLab
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (50.00%) JMeter
2 3 (50.00%) Postman
2 3 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 3 (50.00%) TestNG
2 3 (50.00%) Travis CI
3 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) QA Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Performance Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Regression Testing
2 5 (83.33%) SIEM
3 4 (66.67%) Functional Testing
4 3 (50.00%) API Testing
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (50.00%) Security Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
5 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 3 (50.00%) CEH
2 3 (50.00%) CISSP
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kibana
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes