Functional Tester Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Functional Tester role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Functional Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Functional Tester
Rank 370 406 433
Rank change year-on-year
+36 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Tester 7 9 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.032% 0.033% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.036% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 7
Average daily rate £296 £363 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.27% +20.83%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £372 £238
% change year-on-year
-26.07% +56.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £41.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £35.50
Search 1 Functional Tester jobs in London
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 19942 24907 28750
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.08% 92.46% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13399 16045 18461
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 624 677
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Functional Tester
England

Functional Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Functional Tester across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Functional Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Functional Tester
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Functional Tester across the London region.

London Functional Tester Daily Rate Trend

Functional Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Functional Tester across the London region.

London Functional Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Functional Tester
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Tester within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +15 4 - -
Functional Tester
England

Functional Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Functional Tester in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Functional Tester in their job title.

1 8 (61.54%) Test Scripting
2 6 (46.15%) HP Quality Center
2 6 (46.15%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (38.46%) QA
3 5 (38.46%) Visual Studio
3 5 (38.46%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
4 4 (30.77%) Oracle BI EE
4 4 (30.77%) Siebel
4 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
4 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 4 (30.77%) ISEB
4 4 (30.77%) Selenium
4 4 (30.77%) JIRA
4 4 (30.77%) Integration Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Automated Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Test Management
5 3 (23.08%) Adobe
5 3 (23.08%) RUP
5 3 (23.08%) Validation
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 3 (23.08%) Data Migration
5 3 (23.08%) Manual Testing
5 3 (23.08%) FMCG
5 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Adobe CQ
6 2 (15.38%) Agile Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio Team System
6 2 (15.38%) Regression Testing
6 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce

Functional Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Functional Tester in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Functional Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.692%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) Adobe CQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Visual Studio
1 5 (38.46%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (30.77%) Selenium
2 4 (30.77%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1 (7.692%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Test Scripting
2 6 (46.15%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (30.77%) Integration Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Automated Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Test Management
4 3 (23.08%) RUP
4 3 (23.08%) Validation
4 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 3 (23.08%) Data Migration
4 3 (23.08%) Manual Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Agile Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Regression Testing
5 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
5 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
6 1 (7.692%) Use Case
6 1 (7.692%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (7.692%) CRM
6 1 (7.692%) System Testing
6 1 (7.692%) Feature Driven Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) ISEB
2 2 (15.38%) ISTQB
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 1 (7.692%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Siebel
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Adobe
3 1 (7.692%) hybris
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