Functional Testing Contracts in England

Functional Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 359 385 348
Rank change year-on-year +26 -37 +30
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 126 158 342
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.42% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.49% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 102 257
10th Percentile £375 £400 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £588 £584 £666
90th Percentile £638 £673 £738
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 0
10th Percentile £35.05 £19.25 -
25th Percentile £41.13 £39.55 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £54.38 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £54.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in England

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in England

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in England

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in England

Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Functional Testing in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Functional Testing in England

Functional Testing
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 Testing within the 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
London +13 61 £550 +7.32% 49
South East +58 31 £425 -5.56% 50
Midlands +17 14 £500 +8.93% 23
West Midlands +13 12 £500 +5.26% 14
East of England +35 8 £400 -12.57% 23
North of England +11 8 £413 -4.07% 37
North West +15 5 £425 +5.59% 25
South West +39 2 £515 -1.90% 27
East Midlands +6 2 £825 +86.23% 8
Yorkshire +4 2 £455 -5.89% 10
North East -2 1 £390 -4.88% 2
Functional Testing
UK

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 24 (19.05%) Confluence
2 4 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.38%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.79%) Appian
4 1 (0.79%) CICS
4 1 (0.79%) CMS
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (15.87%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.59%) OrCAD
3 1 (0.79%) Fusion 360
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.79%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 5 (3.97%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (3.17%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (3.17%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (3.17%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (3.17%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.59%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.59%) Finacle
3 2 (1.59%) SAP CRM
3 2 (1.59%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.79%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.79%) Endur
4 1 (0.79%) Murex MxG2000
4 1 (0.79%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.79%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.79%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.79%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.79%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.14%) AWS
1 9 (7.14%) Azure
2 6 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (3.17%) GitHub
4 4 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (3.17%) Sentry
5 3 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (2.38%) AWS CodePipeline
5 3 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (2.38%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.38%) SaaS
5 3 (2.38%) Serverless
6 2 (1.59%) OCI
6 2 (1.59%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.59%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.59%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.59%) SpaceWire
2 1 (0.79%) Firewall
2 1 (0.79%) LAN
2 1 (0.79%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.79%) WAN
2 1 (0.79%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (3.17%) Redis
4 3 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.38%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.38%) Power BI
4 3 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.59%) InfluxDB
5 2 (1.59%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.59%) MS Access
5 2 (1.59%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.79%) Big Data
6 1 (0.79%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (29.37%) JIRA
2 18 (14.29%) Visual Studio
3 16 (12.70%) Selenium
4 11 (8.73%) JMeter
5 9 (7.14%) Jenkins
5 9 (7.14%) Postman
6 7 (5.56%) Git
7 4 (3.17%) CircleCI
7 4 (3.17%) Cucumber
7 4 (3.17%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.17%) GitLab
7 4 (3.17%) TestNG
8 3 (2.38%) REST Assured
8 3 (2.38%) Travis CI
9 2 (1.59%) JUnit
9 2 (1.59%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.79%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.79%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.79%) TestDirector
10 1 (0.79%) WebDriver
General
1 58 (46.03%) Social Skills
2 44 (34.92%) Finance
3 21 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.32%) Manufacturing
5 11 (8.73%) Back Office
6 8 (6.35%) Front Office
7 7 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (3.17%) Aerospace
9 4 (3.17%) Banking
9 4 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.59%) Automotive
11 2 (1.59%) Billing
11 2 (1.59%) Electronics
11 2 (1.59%) Local Government
11 2 (1.59%) Marketing
12 1 (0.79%) Legal
12 1 (0.79%) Military
12 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (23.02%) Developer
2 25 (19.84%) Analyst
3 17 (13.49%) Tester
4 16 (12.70%) Delphi Developer
5 15 (11.90%) Consultant
6 11 (8.73%) Business Analyst
7 10 (7.94%) Test Analyst
8 9 (7.14%) Senior
8 9 (7.14%) Test Manager
9 7 (5.56%) Test Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Lead
10 6 (4.76%) Oracle Developer
10 6 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (4.76%) Test Consultant
11 5 (3.97%) SAP Consultant
12 4 (3.17%) Python Developer
13 3 (2.38%) Architect
13 3 (2.38%) Senior Test Engineer
13 3 (2.38%) Systems Analyst
13 3 (2.38%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.56%) REST
2 6 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (4.76%) React
2 6 (4.76%) XML
3 5 (3.97%) .NET
4 4 (3.17%) Django
4 4 (3.17%) Express.js
4 4 (3.17%) Node.js
5 3 (2.38%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (2.38%) FpML
5 3 (2.38%) Playwright
5 3 (2.38%) Puppeteer
5 3 (2.38%) XSLT
6 2 (1.59%) Middleware
6 2 (1.59%) Murex MxML
6 2 (1.59%) Web Services
7 1 (0.79%) ISPF
7 1 (0.79%) JSON
7 1 (0.79%) Spring
7 1 (0.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 6 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (4.76%) SCADA
3 5 (3.97%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.17%) Derivative
4 4 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.59%) Analogue Electronics
6 2 (1.59%) CMDB
6 2 (1.59%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.59%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.59%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (1.59%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.59%) Replication
6 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.79%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 25 (19.84%) Windows
2 4 (3.17%) Linux
2 4 (3.17%) Unix
3 3 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.79%) Android
5 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.79%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (43.65%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (38.10%) Test Automation
3 41 (32.54%) Agile
4 32 (25.40%) Non-Functional Testing
5 27 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
6 19 (15.08%) DevOps
6 19 (15.08%) Performance Testing
6 19 (15.08%) Root Cause Analysis
7 17 (13.49%) Collaborative Working
7 17 (13.49%) Test Strategy
8 15 (11.90%) Validation
9 14 (11.11%) CI/CD
10 12 (9.52%) Change Management
10 12 (9.52%) Regression Testing
10 12 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (9.52%) System Integration Testing
11 11 (8.73%) API Testing
12 10 (7.94%) End-to-End Testing
12 10 (7.94%) Test Scripting
12 10 (7.94%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 39 (30.95%) SQL
2 21 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 19 (15.08%) C#
4 16 (12.70%) Delphi
4 16 (12.70%) Python
5 15 (11.90%) Java
6 9 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.97%) Bash
8 2 (1.59%) C
8 2 (1.59%) Go
8 2 (1.59%) Tcl
8 2 (1.59%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.59%) VBA
9 1 (0.79%) ABAP
9 1 (0.79%) JCL
9 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (19.84%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.08%) Degree
4 9 (7.14%) ISTQB
5 5 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.38%) CEH
6 3 (2.38%) CISSP
6 3 (2.38%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.59%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.79%) ACCA
8 1 (0.79%) CBAP
8 1 (0.79%) CIMA
8 1 (0.79%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.79%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (21.43%) QA
2 6 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.59%) DO-160
3 2 (1.59%) DO-254
4 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.79%) NIST
4 1 (0.79%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (7.94%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 6 (4.76%) Grafana
2 5 (3.97%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.38%) Kibana
4 2 (1.59%) Terraform
5 1 (0.79%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.79%) OPNET
Vendors
1 30 (23.81%) Oracle
2 29 (23.02%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 7 (5.56%) SAP
5 5 (3.97%) Charles River
6 3 (2.38%) Murex
7 2 (1.59%) Ariba
7 2 (1.59%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.59%) Citrix
7 2 (1.59%) Civica
7 2 (1.59%) EMC
7 2 (1.59%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.59%) Sybase
8 1 (0.79%) Adobe
8 1 (0.79%) Genesys
8 1 (0.79%) Google
8 1 (0.79%) Informatica
8 1 (0.79%) Mitel
8 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.79%) Siemens