Functional Testing Contracts in Birmingham

Functional Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Functional Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Functional Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 63 72
Rank change year-on-year +17 +9 +17
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 4 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.77% 0.52% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.62% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £516 £320 -
25th Percentile £522 £350 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £400 £263
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% +52.38% -44.74%
75th Percentile £547 £463 £269
90th Percentile £549 £500 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -2.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in Birmingham

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in Birmingham

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in Birmingham

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Receivables
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) JMeter
2 2 (50.00%) Postman
2 2 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) TestNG
2 2 (50.00%) Travis CI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Finance Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Testing
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) CEH
2 2 (50.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (25.00%) ACCA
3 1 (25.00%) CBAP
3 1 (25.00%) CIMA
3 1 (25.00%) CIPFA
3 1 (25.00%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kibana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) Civica