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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 111 123
Rank change year-on-year -8 +12 +40
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 7 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.37% 0.43% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.47% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 4
10th Percentile £320 £500 £434
25th Percentile £345 £631 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £754 £538
Median % change year-on-year -46.91% +40.19% -9.66%
75th Percentile £473 £825 £588
90th Percentile £602 - £655
Central London median daily rate £400 £754 £538
% change year-on-year -46.91% +40.19% -9.66%

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 1,671 1,697 2,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.84% 91.48% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,160 1,014 1,533
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £428 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +0.88% -4.20%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £779 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -6.09% +2.22% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 14
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.06 £28.94 £19.18
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +28.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £42.65 £64.56 £45.06
90th Percentile £52.64 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -4.10%

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 7 February 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
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 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (14.29%) NetSuite
1 1 (14.29%) SAP EWM
1 1 (14.29%) SAP PM
1 1 (14.29%) SAP PP
1 1 (14.29%) SAP QM
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (14.29%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Functional Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Manual Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) PHP Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Product Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Architect
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior PHP Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Ajax
1 1 (14.29%) boto
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) DOM
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) HTML5
1 1 (14.29%) LAMP
1 1 (14.29%) Laravel
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) Symfony
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) e-Learning
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) FMCG
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) ERP
3 2 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) CRM
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) OO
4 1 (14.29%) OOD
4 1 (14.29%) Quality Management
4 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) PHP
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 1 (14.29%) Workday