Non-Functional Testing Contracts

Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 434 476 424
Rank change year-on-year +42 -52 -13
Contract jobs citing Non-Functional Testing 151 226 497
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.41% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.45% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 167 370
10th Percentile £370 £363 £363
25th Percentile £430 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £658 £550
90th Percentile £650 £738 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £39.25 - £25.05
25th Percentile £45.63 - £25.13
Median hourly rate £57.50 £90.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.11% +252.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £70.63 - £26.13
90th Percentile £77.75 - £26.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Non-Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Non-Functional Testing over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Non-Functional Testing in the UK

Non-Functional Testing
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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
England +18 124 £500 -9.09% 41
London +29 72 £510 -12.45% 19
Work from Home +80 60 £500 +1.52% 32
UK excluding London +17 56 £500 - 30
North of England +15 15 £475 -17.39% 9
South West +2 12 £585 +6.36% 6
North West +16 9 £475 -20.83% 5
Midlands +15 9 £341 -24.33% 3
Scotland +48 7 £625 +28.21% 3
South East +2 6 £538 +27.98% 6
West Midlands +18 5 £363 -19.44% 2
East Midlands +9 4 £341 -26.38% 1
Yorkshire +11 3 £510 -9.33% 3
North East +9 3 £410 -2.96% 1
Isle of Man - 2 - -
East of England +5 1 £475 -52.50% 1
Wales - 1 £363 -

Non-Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (7.28%) Confluence
2 6 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.65%) IIS
3 4 (2.65%) JBoss
4 3 (1.99%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (1.99%) Endur
1 3 (1.99%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (1.99%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.99%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (1.99%) Oracle FAH
1 3 (1.99%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (1.99%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (1.99%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (1.99%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.66%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 43 (28.48%) Azure
2 35 (23.18%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (17.88%) AWS
4 13 (8.61%) GitHub
5 10 (6.62%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (6.62%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (6.62%) IaaS
5 10 (6.62%) PaaS
5 10 (6.62%) SaaS
6 9 (5.96%) BrowserStack
6 9 (5.96%) Firebase
7 8 (5.30%) BlazeMeter
7 8 (5.30%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 6 (3.97%) GCP
9 5 (3.31%) Tricentis Tosca
10 4 (2.65%) Azure API Management
11 3 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.99%) Serverless
12 2 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.65%) Internet
2 3 (1.99%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.31%) DB2
1 5 (3.31%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.65%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (2.65%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.65%) Redis
3 3 (1.99%) Big Data
3 3 (1.99%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.66%) MySQL
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (22.52%) JIRA
2 32 (21.19%) Postman
3 26 (17.22%) JMeter
4 22 (14.57%) LoadRunner
5 21 (13.91%) Jenkins
6 20 (13.25%) Selenium
7 15 (9.93%) Git
8 14 (9.27%) Cypress.io
8 14 (9.27%) Visual Studio
9 12 (7.95%) Appium
9 12 (7.95%) Cucumber
9 12 (7.95%) GitLab
10 10 (6.62%) SonarQube
11 8 (5.30%) Gatling
12 7 (4.64%) JUnit
12 7 (4.64%) NUnit
13 6 (3.97%) NeoLoad
13 6 (3.97%) SoapUI
14 5 (3.31%) WebDriver
15 4 (2.65%) Mockito
General
1 44 (29.14%) Social Skills
2 41 (27.15%) Finance
3 24 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (12.58%) Banking
5 14 (9.27%) Back Office
6 13 (8.61%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.97%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.31%) Law
9 4 (2.65%) Electronics
9 4 (2.65%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.65%) Legal
9 4 (2.65%) Wholesale Banking
10 3 (1.99%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.99%) Marketing
10 3 (1.99%) Retail
11 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Local Government
11 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (19.87%) Senior
2 27 (17.88%) Analyst
3 26 (17.22%) Test Manager
4 25 (16.56%) Lead
5 23 (15.23%) Test Analyst
6 22 (14.57%) Tester
7 20 (13.25%) Test Engineer
8 16 (10.60%) Test Leader
9 12 (7.95%) Senior Analyst
9 12 (7.95%) Senior Test Analyst
10 11 (7.28%) Senior Test Engineer
11 10 (6.62%) QA Engineer
12 9 (5.96%) Automation Tester
12 9 (5.96%) Developer
12 9 (5.96%) QA Tester
12 9 (5.96%) Test Automation Engineer
13 7 (4.64%) Architect
14 6 (3.97%) Performance Test Leader
14 6 (3.97%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
15 5 (3.31%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.28%) Middleware
2 10 (6.62%) .NET
2 10 (6.62%) ARM Templates
2 10 (6.62%) Azure Blueprints
2 10 (6.62%) Playwright
2 10 (6.62%) WebdriverIO
3 8 (5.30%) AngularJS
4 7 (4.64%) GraphQL
4 7 (4.64%) Web Services
5 6 (3.97%) XML
6 5 (3.31%) Gherkin
6 5 (3.31%) SOAP
7 4 (2.65%) Akka
7 4 (2.65%) Hibernate
7 4 (2.65%) JPA
7 4 (2.65%) Play Framework
7 4 (2.65%) RESTful
7 4 (2.65%) spray
7 4 (2.65%) Spring MVC
7 4 (2.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.26%) Management Information System
2 10 (6.62%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.64%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.65%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.65%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.99%) Online Banking
7 2 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.32%) Derivative
7 2 (1.32%) Equities
7 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.66%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.66%) PMI
8 1 (0.66%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.93%) Unix
2 14 (9.27%) Windows
3 12 (7.95%) Linux
4 5 (3.31%) Android
5 4 (2.65%) AIX
5 4 (2.65%) Solaris
6 1 (0.66%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (60.93%) Test Automation
2 78 (51.66%) Agile
3 60 (39.74%) Functional Testing
4 53 (35.10%) Performance Testing
5 49 (32.45%) DevOps
5 49 (32.45%) Test Strategy
6 33 (21.85%) CI/CD
6 33 (21.85%) Test Management
7 30 (19.87%) Continuous Integration
8 29 (19.21%) Scrum
8 29 (19.21%) Software Testing
9 28 (18.54%) Software Engineering
10 27 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (16.56%) BDD
12 24 (15.89%) Mentoring
13 22 (14.57%) Manual Testing
13 22 (14.57%) Project Management
14 20 (13.25%) Continuous Delivery
14 20 (13.25%) TDD
14 20 (13.25%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 33 (21.85%) SQL
2 25 (16.56%) Java
3 18 (11.92%) JavaScript
4 13 (8.61%) TypeScript
5 12 (7.95%) Python
6 11 (7.28%) C#
7 5 (3.31%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.31%) Scala
8 4 (2.65%) C
9 3 (1.99%) Bash
9 3 (1.99%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.32%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.66%) C++
11 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (19.21%) Security Cleared
2 28 (18.54%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.28%) Degree
3 11 (7.28%) ISTQB
4 10 (6.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.97%) ISEB
6 3 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.99%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.32%) ISEB Practitioner
7 2 (1.32%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (27.15%) QA
2 14 (9.27%) Accessibility
3 10 (6.62%) NCSC
4 2 (1.32%) PMO
5 1 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 23 (15.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (10.60%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.61%) Ansible
3 12 (7.95%) Terraform
4 7 (4.64%) Grafana
5 5 (3.31%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.65%) Tivoli
7 3 (1.99%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.66%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.66%) Kibana
8 1 (0.66%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (10.60%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.95%) Oracle
3 8 (5.30%) IBM
4 7 (4.64%) CA Agile Central
4 7 (4.64%) HP
5 6 (3.97%) Google
6 5 (3.31%) AppDynamics
6 5 (3.31%) iManage
6 5 (3.31%) Intapp
6 5 (3.31%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.65%) F5
7 4 (2.65%) SAP
7 4 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.99%) Microgen
9 1 (0.66%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.66%) Citrix
9 1 (0.66%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.66%) Pega
9 1 (0.66%) Pegasus
9 1 (0.66%) VMware