Functional Testing Contracts in England

Functional Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Functional Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Functional Testing over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 360 361
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 164 304 508
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.63% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.70% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 230 353
10th Percentile £362 £374 £313
25th Percentile £413 £463 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £670 £550
90th Percentile £650 £738 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £455
% change year-on-year -9.09% +20.88% +1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 12
10th Percentile £19.25 - £18.03
25th Percentile £39.55 - £35.91
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £45.00
75th Percentile £58.75 - £45.05
90th Percentile £60.79 - £55.37
UK median hourly rate £57.50 - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - -11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Functional Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,438 43,665 64,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.37% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,622 30,640 45,549
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,250 1,536 1,740
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.96 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +48.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

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 19 May 2024.

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 19 May 2024.

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 19 May 2024. 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 -10 87 £505 -19.52% 27
Midlands +36 22 £400 -11.11% 11
South East +16 21 £488 +14.71% 19
North of England +14 16 £448 +6.55% 10
West Midlands +32 14 £438 -7.89% 5
South West +11 9 £525 -4.55% 7
East Midlands +23 8 £400 +11.11% 6
North West +12 8 £403 -4.17% 8
Yorkshire +4 5 £500 +0.05% 2
North East +16 4 £410 -28.70%
South Coast - 3 £500 -
East of England +9 2 - - 12
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 9 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.05%) Confluence
3 4 (2.44%) Appian
4 3 (1.83%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.83%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.61%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (3.66%) Simulink
2 5 (3.05%) Stateflow
2 5 (3.05%) TargetLink
3 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.22%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.22%) Trello
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.66%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.05%) Oracle Assets
2 5 (3.05%) Oracle Financials
2 5 (3.05%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (3.05%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (3.05%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.83%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.83%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (1.22%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (1.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.61%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (18.29%) Azure
2 21 (12.80%) AWS
2 21 (12.80%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (6.10%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (4.27%) Serverless
5 6 (3.66%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.66%) Tricentis Tosca
6 5 (3.05%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.83%) Apigee
8 3 (1.83%) GCP
9 2 (1.22%) Figma
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.61%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.61%) GitHub
10 1 (0.61%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.61%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.66%) Internet
2 3 (1.83%) HTTP
2 3 (1.83%) PuTTY
2 3 (1.83%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.22%) tcpdump
3 2 (1.22%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.61%) DNS
4 1 (0.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.44%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.83%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.61%) Big Data
3 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.61%) DB2
3 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.61%) Power BI
3 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (19.51%) JIRA
2 19 (11.59%) Selenium
3 14 (8.54%) LoadRunner
4 11 (6.71%) Cucumber
4 11 (6.71%) Cypress.io
5 8 (4.88%) Git
5 8 (4.88%) Jenkins
5 8 (4.88%) JMeter
6 7 (4.27%) JUnit
6 7 (4.27%) Postman
7 5 (3.05%) Bitbucket
7 5 (3.05%) Subversion
7 5 (3.05%) WebDriver
8 4 (2.44%) NeoLoad
8 4 (2.44%) SoapUI
8 4 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (2.44%) TestRail
8 4 (2.44%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.83%) Appium
9 3 (1.83%) Zephyr
General
1 49 (29.88%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.73%) Finance
3 17 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.32%) Banking
5 8 (4.88%) Automotive
5 8 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.27%) Legal
7 6 (3.66%) Back Office
7 6 (3.66%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.05%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.44%) Law
9 4 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.44%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.22%) Electronics
10 2 (1.22%) German Language
10 2 (1.22%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.22%) Marketing
10 2 (1.22%) Retail
10 2 (1.22%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 43 (26.22%) Analyst
2 27 (16.46%) Test Analyst
3 25 (15.24%) Senior
3 25 (15.24%) Tester
4 21 (12.80%) Test Engineer
5 16 (9.76%) Lead
6 14 (8.54%) Developer
7 13 (7.93%) Test Leader
7 13 (7.93%) Test Manager
8 11 (6.71%) Automation Tester
8 11 (6.71%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (6.71%) Senior Test Analyst
9 10 (6.10%) Systems Engineer
10 9 (5.49%) QA Engineer
11 8 (4.88%) Business Analyst
12 6 (3.66%) Performance Test Leader
12 6 (3.66%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.66%) Senior Test Engineer
13 5 (3.05%) Control Systems Engineer
13 5 (3.05%) Functional Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.71%) Node.js
2 8 (4.88%) REST
3 7 (4.27%) SOAP
4 6 (3.66%) Gherkin
4 6 (3.66%) Jest
4 6 (3.66%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (3.05%) GraphQL
5 5 (3.05%) JSON
5 5 (3.05%) React
5 5 (3.05%) Redux
5 5 (3.05%) Web Services
6 4 (2.44%) ADO
6 4 (2.44%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.44%) Next.js
6 4 (2.44%) XML
7 3 (1.83%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.83%) OpenAPI
7 3 (1.83%) OpenID
7 3 (1.83%) pytest
7 3 (1.83%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.49%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.27%) Algorithms
2 7 (4.27%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (2.44%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.83%) Online Banking
5 2 (1.22%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.22%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.22%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.22%) Wiki
6 1 (0.61%) Blog
6 1 (0.61%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.61%) DTCC
6 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.61%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.61%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.15%) Unix
2 11 (6.71%) Linux
3 3 (1.83%) Windows
4 2 (1.22%) Android
4 2 (1.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.61%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.61%) CentOS
5 1 (0.61%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (43.90%) Agile
1 72 (43.90%) Test Automation
2 48 (29.27%) Non-Functional Testing
3 40 (24.39%) Performance Testing
4 39 (23.78%) Test Strategy
5 32 (19.51%) DevOps
6 30 (18.29%) Scenario Testing
6 30 (18.29%) Software Testing
7 25 (15.24%) Defect Management
7 25 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (15.24%) User Acceptance Testing
8 23 (14.02%) End-to-End Testing
9 22 (13.41%) CI/CD
9 22 (13.41%) Test Scripting
10 21 (12.80%) Regression Testing
11 20 (12.20%) Integration Testing
12 19 (11.59%) Test Management
13 18 (10.98%) Migration
13 18 (10.98%) Test Planning
14 17 (10.37%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 19 (11.59%) Java
2 17 (10.37%) SQL
3 15 (9.15%) Python
4 14 (8.54%) JavaScript
5 10 (6.10%) TypeScript
6 9 (5.49%) C#
7 6 (3.66%) MATLAB
8 5 (3.05%) C
9 3 (1.83%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.83%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.22%) ProC
11 1 (0.61%) C++
11 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.61%) R
11 1 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 22 (13.41%) Degree
4 19 (11.59%) ISTQB
5 8 (4.88%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.44%) ISEB
7 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.83%) HNC
7 3 (1.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.22%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.61%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (28.66%) QA
2 6 (3.66%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.05%) AUTOSAR
3 5 (3.05%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.05%) ISO 26262
3 5 (3.05%) MISRA
3 5 (3.05%) MISRA C
4 2 (1.22%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.61%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (3.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.61%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.71%) Oracle
3 8 (4.88%) IBM
4 6 (3.66%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.05%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (2.44%) HP
6 4 (2.44%) iManage
6 4 (2.44%) Intapp
6 4 (2.44%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.44%) TIBCO
7 3 (1.83%) Google
7 3 (1.83%) Microgen
8 2 (1.22%) SAP
8 2 (1.22%) VMware
9 1 (0.61%) Databricks
9 1 (0.61%) Informatica
9 1 (0.61%) Pegasus
9 1 (0.61%) Salesforce