Functional Testing Contracts in Manchester

Functional Testing
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 103 121
Rank change year-on-year +18 +18 -39
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 6 10 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.41% 0.55% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.60% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 14
10th Percentile £400 £361 £280
25th Percentile £401 £375 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £420 £420
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% - -2.89%
75th Percentile £538 £430 £438
90th Percentile - £524 £455
North West median daily rate £403 £420 £425
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.18% -3.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,260 1,669 2,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.84% 91.45% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 1,218 1,809
10th Percentile £325 £313 £273
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 53 58
10th Percentile £12.44 £16.67 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +93.83% +11.26%
75th Percentile £60.63 £45.05 £34.69
90th Percentile £73.70 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £23.80 £36.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -33.89% +46.94% +32.43%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in Manchester

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in Manchester

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (16.67%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Test Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) CRM Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) CRM Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
1 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) BDD
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Product Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft