Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Functional Testing
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Functional Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 75 80
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.27% 0.22% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.26% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £451 -
25th Percentile £463 £453 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £645
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -28.29% +35.79%
75th Percentile £488 £478 -
90th Percentile - £484 -
South West median daily rate £475 £525 £645
% change year-on-year -9.52% -18.60% +72.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
South West median hourly rate - £45.00 £23.86
% change year-on-year - +88.64% -46.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 674 765 923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 92.46% 82.79% 86.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 411 627
10th Percentile £254 £288 £308
25th Percentile £375 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £589 £599 £650
90th Percentile £744 £701 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 141 113
10th Percentile £12.82 £50.00 £21.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £65.00 £47.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.38 £77.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £64.57
% change year-on-year -62.74% +4.53% +11.43%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

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 2 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Migration Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Test Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Test Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Server Migrations
1 2 (100.00%) Smoke Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Validation