Functional Testing Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Functional Testing
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 46 67
Rank change year-on-year +15 +21 -19
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 4 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 1.81% 0.41% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 0.50% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £343
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.87%
75th Percentile £425 - £351
90th Percentile £455 - £411
South East median daily rate £425 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% +4.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 208 398 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 94.12% 82.57% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 277 636
10th Percentile £281 £272 £307
25th Percentile £384 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -3.18% +1.11%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £580
90th Percentile £646 £645 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +1.95% +0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 29 2
10th Percentile £14.01 £15.85 £10.18
25th Percentile £14.20 £18.00 £11.19
Median hourly rate £15.12 £25.00 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +81.82% +11.70%
75th Percentile £20.50 £30.00 £16.69
90th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 £17.93
South East median hourly rate £27.76 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.56% -5.00% +127.79%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in Buckinghamshire

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in Buckinghamshire

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in Buckinghamshire

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +20 2 £375 - 8
Gerrards Cross - 1 £475 - 2
Marlow - 1 - -
Functional Testing
South East

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MS Access
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Logistics
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ARP4754
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Conga
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce