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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 114 139
Rank change year-on-year +5 +25 +30
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 8 14 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.46% 0.67% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.72% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 11
10th Percentile £416 £429 £504
25th Percentile £422 £604 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £531 £675 £625
90th Percentile £543 - £638
Central London median daily rate £475 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -24.00% +8.70% +15.00%
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 1,650 1,935 2,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.12% 91.92% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,221 1,867
10th Percentile £324 £375 £363
25th Percentile £415 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £701
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 16
10th Percentile £17.08 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £56.75 £82.19 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.57% +34.62% -38.82%

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
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 19 September 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 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (12.50%) SAP CRM
1 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
1 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
1 1 (12.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) Appium
3 1 (12.50%) Gatling
3 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
3 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Billing
4 1 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Legal
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) CRM Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Development Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Quality Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) SAP CRM Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
1 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) jQuery
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 4 (50.00%) SDLC
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Defect Management
4 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Smoke Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) CAFM
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Release Management
5 1 (12.50%) Security Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
5 1 (12.50%) System Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) ABAP
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Korn
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) R
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Anywhere
2 1 (12.50%) Planon
2 1 (12.50%) SAP