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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 110 112
Rank change year-on-year -18 +2 +35
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 14 8 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.61% 0.45% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.48% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 5
10th Percentile £422 £416 £429
25th Percentile £502 £422 £604
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -24.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £656 £531 £675
90th Percentile £745 £543 -
Central London median daily rate £613 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +28.95% -24.00% +8.70%

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 2,013 1,683 1,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.29% 94.02% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,389 1,107 1,235
10th Percentile £375 £325 £384
25th Percentile £456 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.78% +7.67% -1.82%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 (14.29%) IIS
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Internet
1 2 (14.29%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 2 (14.29%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Artifactory
1 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 2 (14.29%) TeamCity
2 1 (7.14%) eggPlant
2 1 (7.14%) HP UFT
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Rational Functional Tester
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) SilkTest
2 1 (7.14%) SOAtest
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (42.86%) Banking
4 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Test Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Database Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Junior
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Test Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Programme Manager
4 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) SOAP
2 3 (21.43%) Web Services
2 3 (21.43%) XML
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
3 2 (14.29%) ADO.NET
3 2 (14.29%) Ajax
3 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 2 (14.29%) PySpark
3 2 (14.29%) REST
3 2 (14.29%) XSL
3 2 (14.29%) XSLT
4 1 (7.14%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Credit Risk
1 1 (7.14%) Market Risk
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
1 5 (35.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
1 8 (57.14%) Test Strategy
2 5 (35.71%) Acceptance Criteria
2 5 (35.71%) Defect Management
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Refactoring
2 5 (35.71%) Risk Management
2 5 (35.71%) SDLC
2 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
3 4 (28.57%) AI
3 4 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Regression Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (28.57%) Scrum
3 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
4 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
4 3 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) C#
3 4 (28.57%) PL/SQL
4 3 (21.43%) Java
5 2 (14.29%) C
5 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (14.29%) ProC
5 2 (14.29%) R
6 1 (7.14%) Korn
6 1 (7.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) ISEB
2 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (64.29%) QA
2 3 (21.43%) Accessibility
3 1 (7.14%) Basel III
3 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.14%) WCAG
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle
2 4 (28.57%) Sitecore
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) SAP