Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Functional Testing
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Functional Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 0.99% - 4.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% - 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £605
25th Percentile £463 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £488 - £638
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median daily rate £475 - £625
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Belfast

Functional Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 172 136 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 84.73% 93.15% 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 67 71
10th Percentile £325 £143 £219
25th Percentile £400 £219 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £330 £500
Median % change year-on-year +43.94% -34.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £613
90th Percentile £638 £610 £650
County Antrim median daily rate £475 £330 £500
% change year-on-year +43.94% -34.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 5
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 -
25th Percentile £15.00 - £11.08
Median hourly rate £24.00 £24.18 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +93.44% -19.35%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.31 £16.00
90th Percentile - £78.47 £17.20
County Antrim median hourly rate £24.00 £24.18 £14.25
% change year-on-year -0.74% +69.68% -8.06%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Functional Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Functional Testing job vacancy trend in Belfast

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Functional Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) ERP Implementation Manager
1 1 (50.00%) ERP Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Implementation Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Test Manager
1 1 (50.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Infor
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft