Functional Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 310 354 336
Rank change year-on-year +44 -18 -72
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 81 103 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.43% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.48% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 76 134
10th Percentile £349 £319 £263
25th Percentile £400 £387 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -3.41%
75th Percentile £523 £575 £495
90th Percentile £589 £605 £550
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 13
10th Percentile £19.25 - £21.25
25th Percentile £39.55 - £37.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £41.62
75th Percentile £58.75 - £45.00
90th Percentile £60.79 - £45.16
UK median hourly rate £57.50 - £41.56
% change year-on-year - - -18.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,415 21,396 27,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.54% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,848 19,199
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £689 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,314 1,359
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.17
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.63 £14.04
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.21
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Functional Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +38 19 £459 +2.00% 9
South East +10 17 £481 +8.45% 12
North of England +7 17 £430 +1.18% 17
West Midlands +31 13 £475 - 2
South West +22 10 £475 -13.64% 9
North West +17 8 £403 -4.17% 11
East Midlands +26 6 £443 +23.06% 7
Yorkshire +7 6 £484 -3.30% 3
Scotland +35 5 £425 - 2
Wales - 5 - - 1
North East +17 4 £410 -28.70% 3
East of England +6 3 £458 -8.50% 11
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Isle of Man - 2 - -
Functional Testing
UK

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (3.70%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (2.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Simulink
2 5 (6.17%) Stateflow
2 5 (6.17%) TargetLink
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (4.94%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (4.94%) Oracle Financials
2 4 (4.94%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (4.94%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (4.94%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (3.70%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (3.70%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (1.23%) SAP PM
5 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.81%) Azure
1 12 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (9.88%) AWS
3 6 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.23%) Figma
4 1 (1.23%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.23%) IaaS
4 1 (1.23%) PaaS
4 1 (1.23%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.23%) SaaS
4 1 (1.23%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) PuTTY
2 2 (2.47%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (2.47%) GGSN
2 2 (2.47%) IPsec
2 2 (2.47%) SGSN
2 2 (2.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.47%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.47%) RDBMS
1 2 (2.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (14.81%) JIRA
2 7 (8.64%) Selenium
3 6 (7.41%) Cypress.io
3 6 (7.41%) Git
3 6 (7.41%) Subversion
4 5 (6.17%) Bitbucket
4 5 (6.17%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.17%) JUnit
5 3 (3.70%) Postman
5 3 (3.70%) Toad
6 2 (2.47%) GitLab
6 2 (2.47%) Gradle
6 2 (2.47%) JMeter
6 2 (2.47%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (2.47%) TestRail
7 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.23%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.23%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.23%) TestNG
7 1 (1.23%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (23.46%) Finance
1 19 (23.46%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.64%) Automotive
4 6 (7.41%) Manufacturing
4 6 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.17%) Aerospace
5 5 (6.17%) Banking
6 4 (4.94%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.47%) German Language
7 2 (2.47%) Spanish Language
8 1 (1.23%) Electronics
8 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (22.22%) Analyst
2 15 (18.52%) Tester
3 12 (14.81%) Test Analyst
4 11 (13.58%) Test Engineer
5 10 (12.35%) Senior
5 10 (12.35%) Systems Engineer
5 10 (12.35%) Test Manager
6 6 (7.41%) Automation Tester
7 5 (6.17%) Control Systems Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Senior Test Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Test Technician
8 4 (4.94%) Consultant
8 4 (4.94%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (4.94%) Senior Test Analyst
9 3 (3.70%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.70%) Functional Consultant
9 3 (3.70%) Oracle Analyst
9 3 (3.70%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.94%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (3.70%) .NET
3 2 (2.47%) Android Jetpack
3 2 (2.47%) Dagger
3 2 (2.47%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (2.47%) REST
3 2 (2.47%) Retrofit
4 1 (1.23%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.23%) BAPI
4 1 (1.23%) CSS
4 1 (1.23%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.23%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.23%) HTML
4 1 (1.23%) JSON
4 1 (1.23%) Node.js
4 1 (1.23%) SOAP
4 1 (1.23%) Web Services
4 1 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.64%) Algorithms
1 7 (8.64%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.94%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.70%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.70%) Online Banking
4 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.23%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.23%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.17%) Unix
2 2 (2.47%) Android
2 2 (2.47%) Linux
3 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (41.98%) Agile
2 27 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 25 (30.86%) Non-Functional Testing
4 20 (24.69%) Test Strategy
5 17 (20.99%) Scenario Testing
5 17 (20.99%) Software Testing
6 15 (18.52%) DevOps
7 14 (17.28%) Integration Testing
8 13 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (16.05%) Test Management
9 12 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
10 11 (13.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (12.35%) Migration
11 10 (12.35%) Validation
12 9 (11.11%) Defect Management
12 9 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
12 9 (11.11%) ERP
12 9 (11.11%) Performance Testing
12 9 (11.11%) Test Scripting
13 8 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.88%) SQL
2 7 (8.64%) Java
2 7 (8.64%) JavaScript
3 6 (7.41%) MATLAB
4 5 (6.17%) C
4 5 (6.17%) C#
4 5 (6.17%) Python
5 3 (3.70%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.70%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.47%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.23%) C++
7 1 (1.23%) ProC
7 1 (1.23%) VBA
7 1 (1.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.05%) ISTQB
2 13 (16.05%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.58%) Degree
4 7 (8.64%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.47%) CCNA
6 2 (2.47%) CCNP
6 2 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.47%) HNC
7 1 (1.23%) ISEB
7 1 (1.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (23.46%) QA
2 5 (6.17%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (6.17%) ISO 26262
2 5 (6.17%) MISRA
2 5 (6.17%) MISRA C
3 4 (4.94%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.88%) Oracle
3 4 (4.94%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.70%) Microgen
5 1 (1.23%) Cognos
5 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.23%) SAP
5 1 (1.23%) Wind River