Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Functional Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Functional Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 53 65
Rank change year-on-year -20 +12 +17
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.47% 0.57% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.63% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - - £318
25th Percentile £425 £513 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +31.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £506 £544 £413
90th Percentile £525 £548 -
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £513 £400
% change year-on-year -12.20% +28.13% -20.00%

All Process & 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 737 479 625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.10% 90.38% 82.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 341 406
10th Percentile £263 £200 £254
25th Percentile £402 £393 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £653
West Midlands median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 13 41
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.62 £13.18
25th Percentile £16.05 £14.70 £18.50
Median hourly rate £17.69 £22.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% -21.05% +97.40%
75th Percentile £24.29 £30.68 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £48.14 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.52 £18.63 £23.00
% change year-on-year +15.54% -19.02% +29.80%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Functional Testing job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Functional Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ADO
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Management
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Change Control
3 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) VB
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) HP ALM
1 2 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) SAP