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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 364 334
Rank change year-on-year +82 -30 +16
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 63 106 302
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.43% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.48% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 79 230
10th Percentile £365 £363 £369
25th Percentile £419 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £497 £461
Median % change year-on-year +10.78% +7.64% +2.50%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £538
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £542 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -1.50% +15.79% +5.56%
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% +27.27%

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 12,882 21,904 40,173
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.65% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,678 15,514 29,175
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 507 533
10th Percentile £14.83 £18.58 £14.30
25th Percentile £24.06 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +37.60% +58.98%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

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 23 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 6 (9.52%) Confluence
2 3 (4.76%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (3.17%) IIS
3 2 (3.17%) JBoss
3 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.59%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.59%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (4.76%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (4.76%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (4.76%) Oracle FAH
1 3 (4.76%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (4.76%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (4.76%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (4.76%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (36.51%) Azure
2 21 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (30.16%) AWS
4 12 (19.05%) SaaS
5 10 (15.87%) GitHub
5 10 (15.87%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (15.87%) IaaS
5 10 (15.87%) PaaS
6 6 (9.52%) Firebase
7 5 (7.94%) BlazeMeter
7 5 (7.94%) BrowserStack
7 5 (7.94%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.17%) DB2
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.59%) Big Data
2 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (23.81%) Postman
2 13 (20.63%) Jenkins
2 13 (20.63%) JMeter
3 12 (19.05%) Cypress.io
3 12 (19.05%) JIRA
4 10 (15.87%) SonarQube
5 8 (12.70%) Selenium
6 6 (9.52%) GitLab
7 5 (7.94%) Appium
7 5 (7.94%) Git
8 4 (6.35%) SoapUI
9 3 (4.76%) Cucumber
9 3 (4.76%) LoadRunner
9 3 (4.76%) NUnit
9 3 (4.76%) Toad
9 3 (4.76%) Visual Studio
10 2 (3.17%) JUnit
10 2 (3.17%) Vagrant
11 1 (1.59%) JIRA Agile
11 1 (1.59%) NeoLoad
General
1 20 (31.75%) Finance
2 14 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 12 (19.05%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.52%) Telecoms
5 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.35%) Electronics
6 4 (6.35%) Manufacturing
6 4 (6.35%) Marketing
7 3 (4.76%) Back Office
7 3 (4.76%) Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (26.98%) Senior
2 14 (22.22%) Test Engineer
3 12 (19.05%) Analyst
4 10 (15.87%) Test Analyst
5 8 (12.70%) Lead
5 8 (12.70%) Tester
6 7 (11.11%) Senior Test Engineer
6 7 (11.11%) Test Manager
7 6 (9.52%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (7.94%) QA Tester
9 4 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (6.35%) Senior Test Analyst
10 3 (4.76%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
10 3 (4.76%) Project Manager
10 3 (4.76%) Test Leader
11 2 (3.17%) Finance Project Manager
11 2 (3.17%) Financial Analyst
11 2 (3.17%) Functional Analyst
11 2 (3.17%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.87%) ARM Templates
1 10 (15.87%) Azure Blueprints
2 7 (11.11%) Middleware
3 5 (7.94%) WebdriverIO
4 4 (6.35%) .NET
4 4 (6.35%) SOAP
5 3 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.76%) GraphQL
5 3 (4.76%) Playwright
6 1 (1.59%) Akka
6 1 (1.59%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (1.59%) Dagger
6 1 (1.59%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.59%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (1.59%) Play Framework
6 1 (1.59%) spray
6 1 (1.59%) Spring
6 1 (1.59%) Spring MVC
6 1 (1.59%) Web Services
6 1 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.63%) Management Information System
2 10 (15.87%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.35%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.76%) Online Banking
5 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.52%) Unix
2 5 (7.94%) Windows
3 4 (6.35%) Android
4 3 (4.76%) Linux
5 2 (3.17%) AIX
5 2 (3.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (53.97%) Test Automation
2 31 (49.21%) Functional Testing
3 24 (38.10%) Agile
4 22 (34.92%) DevOps
5 21 (33.33%) Test Strategy
6 19 (30.16%) Performance Testing
7 17 (26.98%) Mentoring
7 17 (26.98%) Test Management
8 16 (25.40%) Software Engineering
9 14 (22.22%) CI/CD
10 13 (20.63%) Project Management
11 12 (19.05%) Continuous Delivery
11 12 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (19.05%) Scrum
12 11 (17.46%) Release Management
12 11 (17.46%) Scenario Testing
12 11 (17.46%) Software Testing
13 10 (15.87%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (15.87%) Manual Testing
13 10 (15.87%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.40%) SQL
2 13 (20.63%) JavaScript
3 9 (14.29%) Java
4 7 (11.11%) Python
5 4 (6.35%) Kotlin
6 3 (4.76%) PL/SQL
6 3 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.17%) C#
8 1 (1.59%) Scala
8 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 22 (34.92%) SC Cleared
3 10 (15.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (9.52%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.17%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.46%) QA
2 10 (15.87%) NCSC
3 6 (9.52%) Accessibility
4 3 (4.76%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (17.46%) Kubernetes
2 10 (15.87%) Ansible
2 10 (15.87%) Terraform
3 2 (3.17%) Grafana
3 2 (3.17%) Tivoli
4 1 (1.59%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (11.11%) Oracle
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.35%) SAP
4 3 (4.76%) Microgen
5 2 (3.17%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.17%) F5
5 2 (3.17%) Google
5 2 (3.17%) IBM
6 1 (1.59%) HP
6 1 (1.59%) VMware