Functional Testing Contracts in Birmingham

Functional Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Functional Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Functional Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 74 85
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 -26
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 4 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.52% 0.33% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.38% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £320 - £425
25th Percentile £350 £256 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £263 £475
Median % change year-on-year +52.38% -44.74% -
75th Percentile £463 £269 £500
90th Percentile £500 - £534
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% +62.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 640 792 1,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.55% 88.20% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 532 879
10th Percentile £248 £264 £213
25th Percentile £363 £395 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £594
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 23
10th Percentile £13.20 £11.00 £12.10
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £13.88
Median hourly rate £27.25 £15.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +81.67% -14.19% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.50 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £71.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
% change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in Birmingham

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in Birmingham

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in Birmingham over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in Birmingham

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in Birmingham

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (25.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ERP
1 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (25.00%) Product Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
2 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) ProC
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle