Non-Functional Testing Contracts in the South East

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 181 225
Rank change year-on-year -2 +44 -23
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 4 22 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.073% 0.39% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.44% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 23
10th Percentile £427 £363 £363
25th Percentile £458 £381 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -2.94% -11.69%
75th Percentile £645 £478 £495
90th Percentile £682 £575 £578
England median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,596 4,978 6,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.27% 89.15% 89.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,675 3,464 4,669
10th Percentile £250 £248 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £595
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 213 279
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £11.99
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in the South East

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in the South East

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the South East

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in the South East

Non-Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 17 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
Thames Valley +3 2 £550 +37.50% 1
Buckinghamshire +26 1 £413 +10.00%
Berkshire -10 1 £688 +66.67%
Hampshire -17 1 £500 +8.70% 3
Surrey - 1 £550 - 1
Non-Functional Testing
England

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (25.00%) TestNG
1 1 (25.00%) Travis CI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Environment Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) System Integration Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle