Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Functional Testing
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Functional Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.95% 0.64% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 0.69% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £328 - -
25th Percentile - £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - -
75th Percentile £369 £538 -
90th Percentile £403 - -
South Wales median daily rate £350 £525 -
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 198 145 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 77.04% 92.36% 75.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 118 131
10th Percentile £250 £196 £188
25th Percentile £306 £294 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £403 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.59% -19.50% +8.70%
75th Percentile £550 £519 £553
90th Percentile £775 £625 £638
South Wales median daily rate £425 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +3.03% -17.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 3
10th Percentile - - £13.00
25th Percentile - £12.21 £14.88
Median hourly rate £12.21 £22.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.73% +25.00% +9.46%
75th Percentile £12.71 £23.75 £35.88
90th Percentile £21.00 £41.75 £46.60
South Wales median hourly rate £21.50 £20.62 £22.68
% change year-on-year +4.28% -9.09% +25.03%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Functional Testing job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Applications Tester
1 2 (40.00%) Test Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (60.00%) NHS
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
1 5 (100.00%) Regression Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Defect Management
2 4 (80.00%) Integration Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Scenario Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Test Scripting
2 4 (80.00%) Traceability Matrix
2 4 (80.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft