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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 110 122
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 +26
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 9 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.41% 0.46% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.50% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 5
10th Percentile £348 £500 £442
25th Percentile £388 £631 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £754 £525
Median % change year-on-year -45.59% +43.52% -19.23%
75th Percentile £598 £825 £550
90th Percentile £695 - £640
Central London median daily rate £410 £754 £525
% change year-on-year -45.59% +43.52% -19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £31.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £31.00 -

All Process & 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 1,917 1,611 2,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.82% 92.53% 89.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,315 1,034 1,437
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £677 £688
90th Percentile £775 £772 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 11
10th Percentile - £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +24.00% -38.27%
75th Percentile £52.16 £48.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £71.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -14.34% +11.47% -20.54%

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 9 April 2026.

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
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

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 City of London region over the 6 months to 9 April 2026. 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
London Bridge - 1 £650 -
Functional Testing
Central London

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (11.11%) NetSuite
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (11.11%) SAP EWM
1 1 (11.11%) SAP PM
1 1 (11.11%) SAP PP
1 1 (11.11%) SAP QM
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (11.11%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
1 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
1 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Functional Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Functional Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Manual Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Functional Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Product Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Tester
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Architect
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) boto
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) FMCG
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (22.22%) Backlog Refinement
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) CRM
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) ERP
3 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
3 2 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Quality Management
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
4 1 (11.11%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 2 (22.22%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Workday