Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Functional Testing
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Functional Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 0.97% - 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% - 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £605
25th Percentile £463 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £488 - £638
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £475 - £625
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 173 131 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 83.57% 90.97% 80.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 65 73
10th Percentile £325 £143 £211
25th Percentile £400 £213 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £325 £500
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% -35.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £542 £538 £600
90th Percentile £639 £589 £650
Northern Ireland median daily rate £475 £325 £500
% change year-on-year +46.15% -35.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 8
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 £11.08
25th Percentile £15.00 - £11.96
Median hourly rate £24.00 £24.18 £14.19
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +70.46% -8.48%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.31 £16.50
90th Percentile - £78.47 £18.23
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £21.55 £24.18 £13.94
% change year-on-year -10.88% +73.46% -10.06%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Functional Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Functional Testing job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Functional Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

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 County Antrim region over the 6 months to 8 February 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
Belfast - 2 £475 - 2
Functional Testing
Northern Ireland

Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) ERP Implementation Manager
1 1 (50.00%) ERP Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Implementation Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Test Manager
1 1 (50.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Infor
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft