Functional Testing Contracts in the East of England

Functional Testing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 109 116
Rank change year-on-year +35 +7 +20
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 8 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.85% 0.16% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.18% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £358
25th Percentile £350 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% -8.50% +58.73%
75th Percentile £450 £461 £530
90th Percentile - - £611
England median daily rate £475 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £51.63 - -
25th Percentile £52.19 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £39.55 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.90% - -
75th Percentile £54.69 - -
90th Percentile £54.88 - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the East of England

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in the East of England

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in the East of England

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Hertfordshire +31 5 - - 4
Essex - 2 - - 9
Bedfordshire +2 1 £400 -12.57% 2
Functional Testing
England

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (25.00%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SpaceWire
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JMeter
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) TestDirector
General
1 4 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Electronics
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Aviation
4 1 (12.50%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Electrical Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Functional Tester
1 2 (25.00%) Hardware Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Functional Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Functional Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Analogue Electronics
2 1 (12.50%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Data Acquisition
1 2 (25.00%) Schematic Capture
1 2 (25.00%) System Testing
1 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (25.00%) TestOps
1 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (12.50%) API Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
2 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
2 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
2 1 (12.50%) SDLC
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
2 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) C
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) Tcl
1 2 (25.00%) VBA
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) DO-160
1 2 (25.00%) DO-254
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (12.50%) Ingenico
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) Twitter