Functional Testing Contracts in Edinburgh

Functional Testing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 106 111
Rank change year-on-year +39 +5 -14
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 3 9 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.37% 0.70% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.74% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 9
10th Percentile £430 £398 -
25th Percentile £456 £413 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £388
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +9.68% +6.16%
75th Percentile £603 £484 £438
90th Percentile £605 £513 £448
Scotland median daily rate £425 £425 £388
% change year-on-year - +9.68% +6.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 711 1,219 1,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.65% 94.94% 93.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 867 1,262
10th Percentile £228 £250 £263
25th Percentile £410 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £570
90th Percentile £674 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 16
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.16 £16.27
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £19.94
Median hourly rate £19.17 £21.26 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -47.18% -26.11%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £54.50 £54.03
Scotland median hourly rate £18.41 £17.21 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.97% -56.98% -

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in Edinburgh

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in Edinburgh

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in Edinburgh

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Gradle
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Android Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Android Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Functional Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Functional Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (66.67%) Dagger
1 2 (66.67%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (66.67%) Retrofit
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Android Development
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Data Management
1 2 (66.67%) Dependency Injection
1 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
1 2 (66.67%) Functional Programming
1 2 (66.67%) MVVM
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Development
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Kotlin
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VBA
2 1 (33.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) ISEB
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification