Non-Functional Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 368 341
Rank change year-on-year +79 -27 -13
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 57 104 303
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.41% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.45% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 82 237
10th Percentile £363 £363 £366
25th Percentile £419 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.71% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £650 £575 £538
90th Percentile - £650 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £475
% change year-on-year - +15.79% +4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £90.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +157.14% +34.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,390 22,975 40,674
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.75% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,954 16,256 29,514
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 528 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.00 £30.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Non-Functional Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Non-Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Non-Functional Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 3 (5.26%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.51%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) IIS
2 2 (3.51%) JBoss
3 1 (1.75%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.75%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (7.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (7.02%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (5.26%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (5.26%) Oracle FAH
1 3 (5.26%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (5.26%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (5.26%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (5.26%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (35.09%) AWS
1 20 (35.09%) Azure
2 19 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (24.56%) SaaS
4 10 (17.54%) GitHub
4 10 (17.54%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (17.54%) IaaS
4 10 (17.54%) PaaS
5 3 (5.26%) Firebase
6 2 (3.51%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (3.51%) BrowserStack
6 2 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.51%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.75%) GCP
7 1 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) DB2
2 1 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.75%) Big Data
2 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (17.54%) Selenium
1 10 (17.54%) SonarQube
2 9 (15.79%) Cypress.io
2 9 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 8 (14.04%) JIRA
3 8 (14.04%) JMeter
3 8 (14.04%) Postman
4 5 (8.77%) Git
5 4 (7.02%) Cucumber
5 4 (7.02%) Visual Studio
6 3 (5.26%) Appium
6 3 (5.26%) NUnit
6 3 (5.26%) Toad
7 2 (3.51%) GitLab
7 2 (3.51%) JUnit
7 2 (3.51%) LoadRunner
7 2 (3.51%) Vagrant
8 1 (1.75%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.75%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.75%) Subversion
General
1 21 (36.84%) Finance
2 11 (19.30%) Public Sector
3 10 (17.54%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.77%) Telecoms
5 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Electronics
5 4 (7.02%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.02%) Marketing
6 3 (5.26%) Banking
7 2 (3.51%) Back Office
8 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (29.82%) Senior
2 12 (21.05%) Test Engineer
3 11 (19.30%) Analyst
4 9 (15.79%) Test Analyst
5 7 (12.28%) Lead
5 7 (12.28%) Senior Test Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Test Manager
6 5 (8.77%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Tester
7 4 (7.02%) Project Manager
7 4 (7.02%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) Senior Test Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Finance Manager
8 3 (5.26%) Finance Project Manager
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Finance Project Manager
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Manager
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Project Manager
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Transformation Manager
8 3 (5.26%) Test Leader
8 3 (5.26%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.54%) ARM Templates
1 10 (17.54%) Azure Blueprints
2 4 (7.02%) Playwright
3 3 (5.26%) .NET
3 3 (5.26%) AngularJS
3 3 (5.26%) GraphQL
3 3 (5.26%) Middleware
4 2 (3.51%) RESTful
4 2 (3.51%) Web Services
4 2 (3.51%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (1.75%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (1.75%) Dagger
5 1 (1.75%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.75%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (1.75%) JPA
5 1 (1.75%) Node.js
5 1 (1.75%) REST
5 1 (1.75%) Spring
5 1 (1.75%) Spring MVC
5 1 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.81%) Management Information System
2 10 (17.54%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.26%) Online Banking
4 2 (3.51%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.53%) Unix
2 5 (8.77%) Windows
3 3 (5.26%) Android
3 3 (5.26%) Linux
4 2 (3.51%) AIX
4 2 (3.51%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (52.63%) Test Automation
2 29 (50.88%) Functional Testing
3 22 (38.60%) DevOps
4 21 (36.84%) Test Strategy
5 17 (29.82%) Mentoring
6 16 (28.07%) Agile
7 14 (24.56%) Project Management
8 13 (22.81%) Performance Testing
8 13 (22.81%) Test Management
9 12 (21.05%) CI/CD
9 12 (21.05%) Continuous Delivery
9 12 (21.05%) Scenario Testing
9 12 (21.05%) Software Engineering
10 11 (19.30%) Migration
10 11 (19.30%) Release Management
11 10 (17.54%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (17.54%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (17.54%) DevSecOps
11 10 (17.54%) Performance Analysis
11 10 (17.54%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.81%) SQL
2 9 (15.79%) Java
3 8 (14.04%) JavaScript
4 7 (12.28%) Python
5 3 (5.26%) C#
5 3 (5.26%) Kotlin
5 3 (5.26%) PL/SQL
5 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (43.86%) Security Cleared
2 23 (40.35%) SC Cleared
3 10 (17.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (12.28%) ISTQB
5 3 (5.26%) ISEB
6 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.54%) NCSC
2 8 (14.04%) Accessibility
2 8 (14.04%) QA
3 4 (7.02%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (19.30%) Kubernetes
2 10 (17.54%) Ansible
2 10 (17.54%) Terraform
3 2 (3.51%) Grafana
3 2 (3.51%) Tivoli
4 1 (1.75%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (12.28%) Oracle
2 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.02%) SAP
4 3 (5.26%) IBM
4 3 (5.26%) Microgen
5 2 (3.51%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.51%) F5
5 2 (3.51%) HP
6 1 (1.75%) Google
6 1 (1.75%) VMware