Non-Functional Testing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 277 286 375
Rank change year-on-year +9 +89 -26
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 27 59 102
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.38% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.44% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 50 83
10th Percentile £331 £363 £363
25th Percentile £375 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £564 £480
Median % change year-on-year -29.05% +17.45% +6.67%
75th Percentile £537 £650 £575
90th Percentile £557 - £650
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Non-Functional Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Non-Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Non-Functional Testing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Non-Functional Testing.

Non-Functional Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Non-Functional Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Non-Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Non-Functional Testing.

Non-Functional Testing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) JBoss
1 1 (3.70%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Aladdin
1 2 (7.41%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (3.70%) NetSuite
2 1 (3.70%) SAP ERP
2 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.70%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.41%) BrowserStack
3 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (7.41%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) OCI
4 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.70%) SaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) HTTP
1 1 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
1 2 (7.41%) MS Access
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) InfluxDB
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) JIRA
2 6 (22.22%) Git
2 6 (22.22%) JMeter
3 5 (18.52%) Jenkins
3 5 (18.52%) Postman
3 5 (18.52%) Selenium
4 4 (14.81%) REST Assured
5 3 (11.11%) LoadRunner
6 2 (7.41%) Burp Suite
6 2 (7.41%) NeoLoad
6 2 (7.41%) NUnit
6 2 (7.41%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (7.41%) Visual Studio
7 1 (3.70%) Appium
7 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
7 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.70%) GitLab
7 1 (3.70%) Robot Framework
7 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 5 (18.52%) Finance
5 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Back Office
6 1 (3.70%) Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Electronics
6 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.70%) Marketing
6 1 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Tester
2 5 (18.52%) Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) QA Tester
2 5 (18.52%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) Test Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Test Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Consultant
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Asset Management Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Test Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Automation Tester
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) QA Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) QA Leader
6 1 (3.70%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) Gherkin
1 4 (14.81%) Playwright
2 3 (11.11%) .NET
2 3 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 3 (11.11%) Web Services
3 2 (7.41%) Middleware
4 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.70%) HTML
4 1 (3.70%) J2EE
4 1 (3.70%) Kafka
4 1 (3.70%) Node.js
4 1 (3.70%) Spring
4 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.70%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.70%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.70%) FMCG
3 1 (3.70%) Life Science
3 1 (3.70%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Unix
3 2 (7.41%) Linux
4 1 (3.70%) AIX
4 1 (3.70%) Kali Linux
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) Test Automation
2 18 (66.67%) Agile
3 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
4 10 (37.04%) DevOps
4 10 (37.04%) Test Management
5 8 (29.63%) Functional Testing
5 8 (29.63%) Security Testing
5 8 (29.63%) Validation
6 7 (25.93%) End-to-End Testing
6 7 (25.93%) Manual Testing
6 7 (25.93%) Performance Testing
6 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (25.93%) Scrum
6 7 (25.93%) Test Strategy
7 6 (22.22%) Integration Testing
7 6 (22.22%) Migration
7 6 (22.22%) Software Testing
8 5 (18.52%) BDD
8 5 (18.52%) Microservices
9 4 (14.81%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) Python
1 8 (29.63%) SQL
2 3 (11.11%) Java
2 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
3 2 (7.41%) Go
3 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.41%) Perl
4 1 (3.70%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) C
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) Groovy
4 1 (3.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) ISTQB
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) CEH
3 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.70%) CISSP
4 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (37.04%) QA
2 3 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.70%) GxP
3 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Grafana
1 2 (7.41%) HP ALM
1 2 (7.41%) Kibana
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) CA Wily
2 1 (3.70%) Nessus
2 1 (3.70%) Nmap
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) Databricks
2 3 (11.11%) HP
2 3 (11.11%) SAP
3 2 (7.41%) AppDynamics
3 2 (7.41%) Citrix
3 2 (7.41%) SimCorp
3 2 (7.41%) Splunk
4 1 (3.70%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.70%) VMware
4 1 (3.70%) Workday