Functional Tester Contract Job Trends in England

Functional Tester
UK > England

The median Functional Tester daily rate in England is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 504 549
Rank change year-on-year -105 +45 +58
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Tester 14 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.031% 0.007% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.008% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 4
10th Percentile - £355 -
25th Percentile - £363 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £243
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +54.64% -59.58%
75th Percentile £419 £388 £330
90th Percentile £438 £395 £447
UK median daily rate £400 £375 £260
% change year-on-year +6.67% +44.23% -56.67%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 41,522 25,105 32,718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 91.81% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,299 16,309 21,568
10th Percentile £325 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,983 1,254 2,147
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.51
25th Percentile £22.46 £17.87 £18.30
Median hourly rate £45.56 £27.29 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.91% -35.78% -3.53%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.04 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +73.72% -37.63% -7.70%

Functional Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Functional Tester' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Functional Tester job vacancy trend in England

Functional Tester
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Functional Tester job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Functional Tester job vacancies in England

Functional Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Tester in England over the 6 months to 23 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Tester in England

Functional Tester
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Functional Tester job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Functional Tester job vacancies in England

Functional Tester
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Tester within the England region over the 6 months to 23 July 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 -60 6 £400 +14.29%
Yorkshire - 5 £413 - 1
North of England - 5 £413 - 1
South East - 2 £337 -
East Midlands - 1 £438 - 1
Midlands - 1 £438 - 1
Functional Tester
UK

Functional Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 23 July 2026, Functional Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Functional Tester in the job title.

1 13 (92.86%) Functional Testing
2 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) CRM
3 5 (35.71%) Defect Management
3 5 (35.71%) Salesforce
3 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
4 3 (21.43%) JIRA
4 3 (21.43%) Rainbow Teams
4 3 (21.43%) Regression Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Test Scripting
4 3 (21.43%) Traceability Matrix
5 2 (14.29%) Azure
5 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (14.29%) ETL
5 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) QA
5 2 (14.29%) Test Management
5 2 (14.29%) Test Planning
5 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Validation
5 2 (14.29%) XML
5 2 (14.29%) Zephyr
6 1 (7.14%) Acceptance Criteria

Functional Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (7.14%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (7.14%) Boomi
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Zephyr
3 1 (7.14%) JMeter
3 1 (7.14%) Postman
3 1 (7.14%) TestRail
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) XML
2 1 (7.14%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (7.14%) Middleware
2 1 (7.14%) Playwright
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) NHS
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Functional Testing
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) CRM
2 5 (35.71%) Defect Management
3 3 (21.43%) Rainbow Teams
3 3 (21.43%) Regression Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Scenario Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
3 3 (21.43%) Test Scripting
3 3 (21.43%) Traceability Matrix
4 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (14.29%) ETL
4 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Test Management
4 2 (14.29%) Test Planning
4 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Validation
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) WCAG
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
2 1 (7.14%) Concur
2 1 (7.14%) Dell
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) SAP