Functional Testing Contracts in the City of London

Functional Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Functional Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Functional Testing over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 114 141
Rank change year-on-year -2 +27 +27
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 6 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.33% 0.56% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.62% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 11
10th Percentile £438 £463 £504
25th Percentile £456 £509 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £604 £585
Median % change year-on-year -17.22% +3.25% +26.49%
75th Percentile £531 £656 £694
90th Percentile £543 £675 £700
Central London median daily rate £500 £604 £575
% change year-on-year -17.22% +5.04% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £31.00 - £53.00
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 - £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 1,706 1,950 3,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.84% 91.42% 91.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,094 1,346 2,165
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £551 £554 £600
% change year-on-year -0.45% -7.75% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 24
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £31.00 £26.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.43% -23.93% -18.83%
75th Percentile £56.75 £40.46 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -22.86% -18.13%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the City of London

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Functional Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in the City of London

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Functional Testing in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in the City of London

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP CRM
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Appium
1 1 (16.67%) Gatling
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
1 1 (16.67%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Billing
3 1 (16.67%) Front Office
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
3 1 (16.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Business Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Credit Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) CRM Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Development Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Project Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Quality Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SAP CRM Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) jQuery
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (16.67%) Derivative
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) SDLC
2 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) System Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) ABAP
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Civica
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) SAP