Non-Functional Testing Contracts in London

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 359 399
Rank change year-on-year +30 +40 -34
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 68 132 204
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.39% 0.51% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.57% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 99 158
10th Percentile £375 £393 £361
25th Percentile £431 £504 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +17.95% -2.50%
75th Percentile £619 £708 £624
90th Percentile £753 £798 £775
England median daily rate £518 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -5.91% +15.79% +4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £90.00 -
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,413 23,355 35,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.53% 90.86% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,060 16,858 26,059
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 269 417
10th Percentile £15.72 £18.40 £17.20
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.83 £39.00 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -28.65% +7.11% +13.78%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £50.61
90th Percentile £66.88 £82.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +8.70%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in London

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in London.

Daily rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in London

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in London over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in London

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in London.

Hourly rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in London

Non-Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 22 May 2024. 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
Central London +46 8 £499 -7.16%
West London +21 5 £330 -
East London - 4 £669 -
Non-Functional Testing
England

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (11.76%) Confluence
2 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.47%) IIS
4 1 (1.47%) JBoss
4 1 (1.47%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.41%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (2.94%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.65%) Azure
2 9 (13.24%) AWS
3 6 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.35%) BlazeMeter
4 5 (7.35%) BrowserStack
4 5 (7.35%) Firebase
4 5 (7.35%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 5 (7.35%) Tricentis Tosca
5 2 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.94%) GCP
5 2 (2.94%) SaaS
5 2 (2.94%) Serverless
6 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (5.88%) NoSQL
1 4 (5.88%) Redis
2 3 (4.41%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.94%) DB2
3 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.47%) MySQL
4 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (35.29%) JIRA
2 17 (25.00%) Postman
3 12 (17.65%) LoadRunner
4 11 (16.18%) Jenkins
4 11 (16.18%) JMeter
5 10 (14.71%) Cypress.io
6 9 (13.24%) Appium
6 9 (13.24%) Git
6 9 (13.24%) Visual Studio
7 8 (11.76%) Cucumber
7 8 (11.76%) GitLab
8 7 (10.29%) Selenium
9 6 (8.82%) Gatling
10 5 (7.35%) NeoLoad
10 5 (7.35%) WebDriver
11 4 (5.88%) Mockito
11 4 (5.88%) Rational Performance Tester
11 4 (5.88%) ScalaTest
11 4 (5.88%) SpecFlow
12 3 (4.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 17 (25.00%) Finance
3 14 (20.59%) Back Office
4 9 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 7 (10.29%) Banking
7 5 (7.35%) Law
8 4 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (5.88%) Investment Banking
8 4 (5.88%) Legal
8 4 (5.88%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (2.94%) Electronics
9 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.94%) Marketing
9 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.47%) Local Government
10 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (22.06%) Senior
2 14 (20.59%) Analyst
3 13 (19.12%) Lead
3 13 (19.12%) Test Analyst
3 13 (19.12%) Tester
4 9 (13.24%) Test Leader
5 8 (11.76%) QA Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (11.76%) Senior Test Analyst
6 7 (10.29%) Developer
6 7 (10.29%) QA Tester
6 7 (10.29%) Test Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Performance Test Leader
7 5 (7.35%) Scala Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Test Manager
8 4 (5.88%) Automation Tester
8 4 (5.88%) QA Test Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Project Manager
10 2 (2.94%) Senior Project Manager
10 2 (2.94%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.71%) Middleware
2 7 (10.29%) WebdriverIO
3 5 (7.35%) Web Services
4 4 (5.88%) .NET
4 4 (5.88%) Akka
4 4 (5.88%) Hibernate
4 4 (5.88%) JPA
4 4 (5.88%) Play Framework
4 4 (5.88%) RESTful
4 4 (5.88%) spray
4 4 (5.88%) Spring
4 4 (5.88%) Spring MVC
4 4 (5.88%) XML
5 3 (4.41%) ADO
5 3 (4.41%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.41%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (4.41%) Jest
5 3 (4.41%) JSON
5 3 (4.41%) pytest
6 2 (2.94%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.29%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.35%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.94%) Derivative
5 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.47%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.24%) Linux
1 9 (13.24%) Unix
2 5 (7.35%) Android
3 3 (4.41%) Windows
4 1 (1.47%) AIX
4 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.47%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (69.12%) Agile
2 44 (64.71%) Test Automation
3 33 (48.53%) Performance Testing
4 24 (35.29%) Continuous Integration
5 23 (33.82%) Functional Testing
6 21 (30.88%) Test Strategy
7 17 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 17 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 16 (23.53%) BDD
8 16 (23.53%) Scrum
9 15 (22.06%) Manual Testing
9 15 (22.06%) Test Management
10 14 (20.59%) Software Testing
11 13 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (17.65%) DevOps
12 12 (17.65%) TDD
13 10 (14.71%) Project Management
13 10 (14.71%) Scenario Testing
13 10 (14.71%) Software Engineering
13 10 (14.71%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.53%) SQL
2 14 (20.59%) Java
3 8 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 7 (10.29%) C#
5 6 (8.82%) Python
6 5 (7.35%) Scala
6 5 (7.35%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.88%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.47%) C
8 1 (1.47%) C++
8 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (7.35%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.35%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.88%) Degree
3 3 (4.41%) ISEB
3 3 (4.41%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (38.24%) QA
2 4 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.41%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (10.29%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.35%) Grafana
1 5 (7.35%) Kubernetes
1 5 (7.35%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.94%) Ansible
2 2 (2.94%) Terraform
3 1 (1.47%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 10 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.29%) CA Agile Central
3 6 (8.82%) HP
4 5 (7.35%) IBM
4 5 (7.35%) iManage
4 5 (7.35%) Intapp
4 5 (7.35%) OpenAI
5 3 (4.41%) Oracle
6 2 (2.94%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.94%) Google
6 2 (2.94%) SAP
6 2 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.47%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.47%) F5
7 1 (1.47%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.47%) Pegasus
7 1 (1.47%) VMware