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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 110 133
Rank change year-on-year -5 +23 +39
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 8 11 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.46% 0.52% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.56% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 11
10th Percentile £345 £429 £504
25th Percentile £375 £604 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £513 £675 £625
90th Percentile £538 - £638
Central London median daily rate £450 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -28.00% +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 1,625 1,948 2,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.42% 91.93% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,208 1,779
10th Percentile £328 £363 £371
25th Percentile £424 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £770 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.63 £23.13 £16.31
Median hourly rate £27.04 £42.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.39% +36.00% -27.73%
75th Percentile £35.88 £112.00 £48.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -36.05%

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 16 October 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 & 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:

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
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) Gatling
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Analyst
1 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
1 1 (12.50%) Developer
1 1 (12.50%) Development Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Lead
1 1 (12.50%) PHP Developer
1 1 (12.50%) Senior
1 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
1 1 (12.50%) Senior PHP Developer
1 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
1 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
1 1 (12.50%) Test Specialist
1 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) CSS
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) Ajax
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) DOM
2 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
2 1 (12.50%) HTML5
2 1 (12.50%) jQuery
2 1 (12.50%) LAMP
2 1 (12.50%) Laravel
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Symfony
2 1 (12.50%) Vue
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (12.50%) e-Learning
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) SDLC
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Defect Management
4 2 (25.00%) MVC
4 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Smoke Testing
4 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (12.50%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Sprint Retrospective
5 1 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Korn
3 1 (12.50%) PHP
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
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