Functional Testing Contracts

Functional Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 374 363
Rank change year-on-year -14 -11 -27
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 201 387 623
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.64% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.72% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 283 420
10th Percentile £388 £375 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +4.40%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £550
90th Percentile £650 £738 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £425
% change year-on-year - +11.76% -4.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 16
10th Percentile £19.25 - £21.13
25th Percentile £39.55 - £36.69
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £41.56
75th Percentile £58.75 - £45.00
90th Percentile - - £50.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 - £41.62
% change year-on-year - - -16.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Functional Testing.

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Functional Testing over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England -41 159 £494 -14.13% 84
London -15 88 £511 -18.20% 22
Work from Home +71 84 £500 +4.71% 33
UK excluding London +32 78 £475 - 64
Midlands +35 19 £459 +2.00% 10
South East -7 18 £450 +12.50% 16
North of England +9 16 £430 -14.00% 17
West Midlands +34 13 £475 - 5
South West +19 9 £525 -4.55% 8
North West +12 7 £403 -4.73% 10
East Midlands +21 6 £443 +23.06% 5
Yorkshire +12 6 £484 -3.30% 3
Wales - 5 - - 1
Scotland +18 3 £550 +29.41% 5
North East +14 3 £410 -28.70% 4
East of England +7 3 £458 -8.50% 10
Isle of Man - 2 - -

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.99%) Appian
2 4 (1.99%) Confluence
2 4 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.50%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (2.49%) Simulink
1 5 (2.49%) Stateflow
1 5 (2.49%) TargetLink
2 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.00%) Trello
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (2.49%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.99%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (1.99%) Oracle Financials
2 4 (1.99%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (1.99%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.99%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.49%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.49%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (1.00%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.50%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.50%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (21.39%) Azure
2 32 (15.92%) AWS
3 31 (15.42%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (7.46%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (6.97%) GitHub
6 12 (5.97%) SaaS
7 11 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (5.47%) IaaS
7 11 (5.47%) PaaS
8 7 (3.48%) Serverless
9 6 (2.99%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.49%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.99%) Tricentis Tosca
12 3 (1.49%) Apigee
12 3 (1.49%) GCP
12 3 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (1.00%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.99%) Internet
2 3 (1.49%) Diameter Protocol
2 3 (1.49%) GGSN
2 3 (1.49%) HTTP
2 3 (1.49%) IPsec
2 3 (1.49%) PuTTY
2 3 (1.49%) SGSN
3 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.50%) DNS
4 1 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.48%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.99%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.49%) Power BI
4 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.50%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.50%) DB2
5 1 (0.50%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.50%) Metadata
5 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.50%) MySQL
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (16.42%) JIRA
2 23 (11.44%) Selenium
3 16 (7.96%) Cucumber
4 13 (6.47%) LoadRunner
5 12 (5.97%) Cypress.io
6 11 (5.47%) Git
7 10 (4.98%) Jenkins
7 10 (4.98%) JMeter
7 10 (4.98%) JUnit
7 10 (4.98%) SonarQube
8 9 (4.48%) Postman
9 6 (2.99%) Subversion
9 6 (2.99%) WebDriver
10 5 (2.49%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.99%) GitLab
11 4 (1.99%) Gradle
11 4 (1.99%) SoapUI
11 4 (1.99%) SpecFlow
11 4 (1.99%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (1.99%) TestNG
General
1 55 (27.36%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.40%) Finance
3 15 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.97%) Banking
4 12 (5.97%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.98%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.48%) Automotive
6 7 (3.48%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.99%) Legal
8 5 (2.49%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.49%) Back Office
8 5 (2.49%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.99%) Wholesale Banking
10 3 (1.49%) German Language
10 3 (1.49%) Law
10 3 (1.49%) Marketing
10 3 (1.49%) Retail
11 2 (1.00%) Electronics
11 2 (1.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 44 (21.89%) Analyst
2 32 (15.92%) Tester
3 24 (11.94%) Test Analyst
4 23 (11.44%) Senior
5 19 (9.45%) Lead
5 19 (9.45%) Test Manager
6 18 (8.96%) Test Engineer
7 16 (7.96%) Developer
8 15 (7.46%) Test Leader
9 11 (5.47%) Automation Tester
10 10 (4.98%) Business Analyst
10 10 (4.98%) Systems Engineer
11 9 (4.48%) QA Engineer
12 8 (3.98%) Functional Analyst
12 8 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (3.98%) Senior Test Analyst
13 6 (2.99%) Senior Test Engineer
14 5 (2.49%) Consultant
14 5 (2.49%) QA Analyst
14 5 (2.49%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.97%) REST
2 11 (5.47%) Node.js
3 10 (4.98%) ARM Templates
3 10 (4.98%) Azure Blueprints
4 8 (3.98%) .NET
4 8 (3.98%) SOAP
5 7 (3.48%) Jest
6 6 (2.99%) Gherkin
6 6 (2.99%) JSON
6 6 (2.99%) Redux
7 5 (2.49%) GraphQL
7 5 (2.49%) Web Services
7 5 (2.49%) XML
8 4 (1.99%) .NET Framework
8 4 (1.99%) ADO
8 4 (1.99%) Next.js
8 4 (1.99%) React
9 3 (1.49%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.49%) OAuth
9 3 (1.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.45%) Management Information System
2 11 (5.47%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.98%) Mobile App
3 8 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.48%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.49%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.49%) Online Banking
6 3 (1.49%) Wiki
7 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.00%) DTCC
7 2 (1.00%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.00%) PKI
7 2 (1.00%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.50%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.50%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.97%) Unix
2 9 (4.48%) Linux
3 5 (2.49%) Android
4 3 (1.49%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.49%) Windows
5 1 (0.50%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.50%) CentOS
5 1 (0.50%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (46.27%) Test Automation
2 80 (39.80%) Agile
3 62 (30.85%) Non-Functional Testing
4 48 (23.88%) Test Strategy
5 46 (22.89%) DevOps
6 38 (18.91%) Performance Testing
7 35 (17.41%) Software Testing
8 33 (16.42%) Scenario Testing
9 31 (15.42%) User Acceptance Testing
10 29 (14.43%) Test Scripting
11 27 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (12.94%) CI/CD
12 26 (12.94%) Defect Management
12 26 (12.94%) End-to-End Testing
12 26 (12.94%) Project Management
12 26 (12.94%) Regression Testing
13 25 (12.44%) Integration Testing
14 23 (11.44%) Mentoring
15 22 (10.95%) Migration
16 21 (10.45%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.95%) SQL
2 20 (9.95%) Java
3 19 (9.45%) Python
4 17 (8.46%) JavaScript
5 12 (5.97%) C#
6 10 (4.98%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.49%) C
7 5 (2.49%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.49%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.49%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.00%) C++
9 2 (1.00%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.00%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.00%) Ruby
10 1 (0.50%) ProC
10 1 (0.50%) R
10 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.50%) VBA
10 1 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 33 (16.42%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.95%) Degree
4 21 (10.45%) ISTQB
5 10 (4.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.48%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.99%) ISEB
8 5 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.49%) CCNA
9 3 (1.49%) CCNP
9 3 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (1.00%) HNC
10 2 (1.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.50%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (24.88%) QA
2 10 (4.98%) NCSC
3 8 (3.98%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.99%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.49%) AUTOSAR
5 5 (2.49%) ISO 26262
5 5 (2.49%) MISRA
5 5 (2.49%) MISRA C
6 2 (1.00%) MiFID
6 2 (1.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (7.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (7.46%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.47%) Terraform
3 10 (4.98%) Ansible
4 4 (1.99%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.50%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 32 (15.92%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.97%) Oracle
3 6 (2.99%) IBM
3 6 (2.99%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.49%) HP
5 4 (1.99%) SAP
5 4 (1.99%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.49%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (1.49%) Databricks
6 3 (1.49%) Google
6 3 (1.49%) iManage
6 3 (1.49%) Intapp
6 3 (1.49%) Microgen
6 3 (1.49%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.00%) VMware
7 2 (1.00%) Workday
8 1 (0.50%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.50%) Informatica
8 1 (0.50%) Pegasus
8 1 (0.50%) Salesforce