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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 375 360
Rank change year-on-year +24 -15 -2
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 132 180 294
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.48% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.56% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 120 220
10th Percentile £370 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +27.78%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £671
90th Percentile £628 £650 £738
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 3
10th Percentile £35.05 £38.64 £23.80
25th Percentile £41.13 £42.50 £34.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +8.49% +17.78%
75th Percentile £54.38 £58.75 £65.25
90th Percentile £54.75 £62.83 £72.60
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -8.70% +7.48% +23.53%

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 22,825 31,956 42,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.34% 85.23% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,747 20,674 29,622
10th Percentile £300 £303 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,101 2,390 1,546
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £37.75 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year -29.93% +7.76% +36.41%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +24 65 £500 -3.61% 206
South East +48 28 £425 -12.82% 75
Midlands -3 15 £500 +25.00% 38
North of England +13 14 £450 -5.26% 46
West Midlands +8 13 £500 +14.29% 20
North West +3 8 £450 +11.80% 25
East of England +26 4 £400 - 37
Yorkshire +1 4 £524 +8.32% 13
South West +40 2 £630 +36.22% 39
East Midlands 0 2 £825 +116.39% 18
North East 0 2 £390 -4.88% 8
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 16 (12.12%) Confluence
2 3 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.27%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.76%) CICS
3 1 (0.76%) CMS
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.76%) Fusion 360
2 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.76%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (3.03%) Oracle Cash Management
1 4 (3.03%) Oracle General Ledger
1 4 (3.03%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (3.03%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.52%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.52%) Finacle
3 2 (1.52%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.52%) SAP CRM
3 2 (1.52%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.76%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.76%) Endur
4 1 (0.76%) Murex MxG2000
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.76%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.76%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 16 (12.12%) Azure
2 9 (6.82%) AWS
3 8 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (5.30%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (3.79%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.79%) Serverless
6 4 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.03%) SaaS
7 3 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.27%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (1.52%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 2 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.52%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.52%) BrowserStack
8 2 (1.52%) GCP
8 2 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) SpaceWire
2 1 (0.76%) Firewall
2 1 (0.76%) LAN
2 1 (0.76%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.76%) WAN
2 1 (0.76%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.30%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.79%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (3.79%) Power BI
3 5 (3.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (3.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.27%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.52%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.52%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.52%) MS Access
6 2 (1.52%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (1.52%) Redis
6 2 (1.52%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.76%) Big Data
7 1 (0.76%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 30 (22.73%) JIRA
2 17 (12.88%) Selenium
3 11 (8.33%) Postman
3 11 (8.33%) Visual Studio
4 7 (5.30%) Git
4 7 (5.30%) JMeter
5 6 (4.55%) GitLab
5 6 (4.55%) Jenkins
6 5 (3.79%) Appium
7 4 (3.03%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.03%) JUnit
7 4 (3.03%) TestNG
8 3 (2.27%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.27%) REST Assured
8 3 (2.27%) Travis CI
9 2 (1.52%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.52%) Gatling
9 2 (1.52%) Gradle
9 2 (1.52%) LoadRunner
9 2 (1.52%) SoapUI
General
1 53 (40.15%) Social Skills
2 37 (28.03%) Finance
3 21 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.58%) Manufacturing
5 9 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.06%) Back Office
6 8 (6.06%) Banking
6 8 (6.06%) Front Office
7 6 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.03%) Aerospace
8 4 (3.03%) Marketing
9 3 (2.27%) Legal
10 2 (1.52%) Automotive
10 2 (1.52%) Billing
10 2 (1.52%) Electronics
10 2 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.52%) Military
10 2 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (18.94%) Analyst
2 22 (16.67%) Developer
3 17 (12.88%) Tester
4 16 (12.12%) Consultant
5 11 (8.33%) Test Analyst
5 11 (8.33%) Test Manager
6 8 (6.06%) Delphi Developer
6 8 (6.06%) Senior
7 7 (5.30%) Business Analyst
7 7 (5.30%) Lead
8 6 (4.55%) Oracle Developer
8 6 (4.55%) Test Consultant
8 6 (4.55%) Test Engineer
9 5 (3.79%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.03%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 4 (3.03%) SAP Consultant
10 4 (3.03%) Technical Consultant
11 3 (2.27%) Lead Consultant
11 3 (2.27%) Senior Test Engineer
11 3 (2.27%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.55%) REST
1 6 (4.55%) XML
2 5 (3.79%) .NET
2 5 (3.79%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (3.79%) React
3 3 (2.27%) Express.js
3 3 (2.27%) Node.js
3 3 (2.27%) Playwright
3 3 (2.27%) Puppeteer
3 3 (2.27%) XSLT
4 2 (1.52%) Android Jetpack
4 2 (1.52%) CSS
4 2 (1.52%) Dagger
4 2 (1.52%) Django
4 2 (1.52%) HTML
4 2 (1.52%) Middleware
4 2 (1.52%) Murex MxML
4 2 (1.52%) Retrofit
4 2 (1.52%) Spring
4 2 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.82%) Cloud Native
1 9 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (6.06%) SCADA
3 6 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.03%) Derivative
5 4 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.27%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.52%) CMDB
7 2 (1.52%) Credit Derivative
7 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.52%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.52%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 2 (1.52%) PDA
7 2 (1.52%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.52%) Replication
7 2 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.88%) Windows
2 6 (4.55%) Android
3 4 (3.03%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.03%) Linux
3 4 (3.03%) Unix
4 3 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (40.91%) Test Automation
2 50 (37.88%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (31.06%) Agile
4 33 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 30 (22.73%) Non-Functional Testing
6 22 (16.67%) DevOps
7 21 (15.91%) Test Strategy
8 17 (12.88%) Test Scripting
8 17 (12.88%) Validation
9 16 (12.12%) CI/CD
9 16 (12.12%) Performance Testing
9 16 (12.12%) System Integration Testing
10 15 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (10.61%) Regression Testing
12 13 (9.85%) Collaborative Working
13 12 (9.09%) Defect Management
13 12 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
13 12 (9.09%) Integration Testing
13 12 (9.09%) SDLC
14 11 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 31 (23.48%) SQL
2 19 (14.39%) Java
3 17 (12.88%) Python
4 14 (10.61%) C#
5 13 (9.85%) PL/SQL
6 10 (7.58%) JavaScript
7 8 (6.06%) Delphi
8 5 (3.79%) Bash
9 2 (1.52%) C
9 2 (1.52%) Go
9 2 (1.52%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.52%) Tcl
9 2 (1.52%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.52%) VBA
10 1 (0.76%) ABAP
10 1 (0.76%) JCL
10 1 (0.76%) Korn
10 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.15%) Degree
3 17 (12.88%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.82%) ISTQB
5 5 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.27%) CEH
6 3 (2.27%) CISSP
6 3 (2.27%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (19.70%) QA
2 4 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.52%) ARP4754
4 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.76%) NIST
4 1 (0.76%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (6.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 6 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.03%) Grafana
3 3 (2.27%) Kibana
4 2 (1.52%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.52%) Terraform
5 1 (0.76%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.76%) Graphite
5 1 (0.76%) OPNET
Vendors
1 23 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 22 (16.67%) Oracle
3 12 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 9 (6.82%) SAP
5 5 (3.79%) Charles River
6 3 (2.27%) Murex
7 2 (1.52%) Ariba
7 2 (1.52%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.52%) Citrix
7 2 (1.52%) EMC
7 2 (1.52%) HP
7 2 (1.52%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.52%) Sybase
8 1 (0.76%) Cisco
8 1 (0.76%) Genesys
8 1 (0.76%) IBM
8 1 (0.76%) Informatica
8 1 (0.76%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.76%) Siemens