Functional Testing Contracts in the City of London

Functional Testing
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 116 147 168
Rank change year-on-year +31 +21 -40
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 9 25 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.41% 0.69% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.75% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 21
10th Percentile £442 £513 -
25th Percentile £505 £551 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £450
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +50.00% -15.29%
75th Percentile £550 £700 £525
90th Percentile £640 £738 £550
Central London median daily rate £525 £675 £450
% change year-on-year -22.22% +50.00% -15.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 3,339 3,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.81% 91.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 2,252 2,942
10th Percentile £359 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 23 41
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the City of London

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Functional Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in the City of London

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in the City of London

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Functional Testing in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in the City of London

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Postman
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) Burp Suite
2 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
2 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) QA Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Coordinator
3 1 (11.11%) DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Manual Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (11.11%) QA Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Software QA Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Software Quality Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Test Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
1 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) DTCC
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
2 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (22.22%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) SDLC
3 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
3 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (11.11%) Code Quality
4 1 (11.11%) Community of Practice
4 1 (11.11%) Database Security
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
1 3 (33.33%) ISEB
1 3 (33.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) MiFID
2 1 (11.11%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Data Guard
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle