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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 120 110
Rank change year-on-year -9 -10 +35
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 10 6 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.41% 0.33% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.35% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile £409 £438 £463
25th Percentile £422 £456 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £500 £604
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -17.22% +3.25%
75th Percentile £647 £531 £656
90th Percentile £664 £543 £675
Central London median daily rate £550 £500 £604
% change year-on-year +10.00% -17.22% +5.04%
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 2,099 1,719 1,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.06% 93.83% 91.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,419 1,102 1,341
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -2.62% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £556
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -7.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 21 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.21
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £21.00 £31.00 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -32.26% +16.43% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.13 £56.75 £40.46
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £64.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.47 £32.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -24.72% +20.37% -22.86%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Internet
1 2 (20.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (20.00%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (40.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) C# Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Database Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Junior
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Functional Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (20.00%) ADO.NET
2 2 (20.00%) Ajax
2 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 2 (20.00%) REST
2 2 (20.00%) SOAP
2 2 (20.00%) Web Services
2 2 (20.00%) XML
2 2 (20.00%) XSL
2 2 (20.00%) XSLT
3 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 5 (50.00%) Refactoring
1 5 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (40.00%) SDLC
2 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) AI
4 2 (20.00%) Defect Management
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (20.00%) C
3 2 (20.00%) ProC
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (10.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (40.00%) Sitecore
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) Salesforce