Functional Testing Contracts in Bristol

Functional Testing
South West > Bristol

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 89 89
Rank change year-on-year +17 0 -14
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 2 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.19% 0.41% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.47% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £440 - £423
25th Percentile £444 £525 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +40.74%
75th Percentile £506 £575 £544
90th Percentile £510 £596 £578
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% +8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
South West median hourly rate - - £45.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 877 1,068 1,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 82.97% 88.56% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 722 840
10th Percentile £251 £300 £313
25th Percentile £373 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £588
90th Percentile £686 £720 £656
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 211 107
10th Percentile £40.00 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £9.80 £15.90
Median hourly rate £67.25 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.08% +33.33% +2.86%
75th Percentile £72.50 £69.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £80.00 £68.06
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -8.33% +23.08% +14.03%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in Bristol

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in Bristol

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in Bristol

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Smoke Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft