Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Functional Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Functional Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 115 135
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 +35
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 10 12 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.57% 0.57% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.62% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 11
10th Percentile £352 £458 £517
25th Percentile £372 £606 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -31.37% +10.87% +10.05%
75th Percentile £531 £675 £625
90th Percentile £603 £693 £638
Central London median daily rate £450 £638 £575
% change year-on-year -29.41% +10.87% +10.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £53.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £53.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,641 1,942 2,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.56% 91.47% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,194 1,754
10th Percentile £327 £375 £363
25th Percentile £417 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.25 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.50% +52.67% -35.15%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -22.76% +6.87% -24.26%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Functional Testing job vacancy trend in the City of London

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Functional Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in the City of London

Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Functional Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (10.00%) SAP EWM
1 1 (10.00%) SAP PM
1 1 (10.00%) SAP PP
1 1 (10.00%) SAP QM
1 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (10.00%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
1 2 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) Gatling
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Legal
4 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Development Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Product Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) SAP Architect
2 1 (10.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior PHP Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (10.00%) Test Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) CSS
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) Ajax
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) DOM
2 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (10.00%) HTML5
2 1 (10.00%) jQuery
2 1 (10.00%) LAMP
2 1 (10.00%) Laravel
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) Symfony
2 1 (10.00%) Vue
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (10.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (10.00%) FMCG
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Regression Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) SDLC
3 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Defect Management
4 2 (20.00%) MVC
4 2 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Smoke Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (10.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (10.00%) Organisational Awareness
5 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Korn
3 1 (10.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Anywhere
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Planon
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) SAP