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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 349 374
Rank change year-on-year -41 +25 -42
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 159 352 491
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.69% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.77% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 262 334
10th Percentile £400 £363 £313
25th Percentile £413 £463 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.13% +21.05% +0.48%
75th Percentile £575 £666 £560
90th Percentile £668 £738 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 15
10th Percentile £19.25 - £20.35
25th Percentile £39.55 - £37.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £41.62
75th Percentile £58.75 - £45.00
90th Percentile - - £51.98
UK median hourly rate £57.50 - £41.56
% change year-on-year - - -18.51%

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 32,205 45,779 64,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.51% 90.27% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,157 32,091 45,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,623 1,778
10th Percentile £12.87 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.62 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.16
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -15 88 £511 -18.20% 21
Midlands +35 19 £459 +2.00% 9
South East -7 18 £450 +12.50% 16
North of England +9 16 £430 -14.00% 18
West Midlands +34 13 £475 - 4
South West +19 9 £525 -4.55% 8
North West +12 7 £403 -4.73% 13
East Midlands +21 6 £443 +23.06% 5
Yorkshire +12 6 £484 -3.30% 3
North East +14 3 £410 -28.70% 2
East of England +7 3 £458 -8.50% 11
South Coast - 3 £500 -
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 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.52%) Appian
2 4 (2.52%) Confluence
3 3 (1.89%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.63%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Simulink
1 5 (3.14%) Stateflow
1 5 (3.14%) TargetLink
2 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.26%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.26%) Trello
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.52%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (2.52%) Oracle Financials
2 4 (2.52%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (2.52%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (2.52%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.89%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.89%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (1.26%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.63%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.63%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (16.98%) Azure
2 21 (13.21%) AWS
3 18 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (6.29%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (4.40%) Serverless
6 4 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (2.52%) Tricentis Tosca
7 3 (1.89%) Apigee
7 3 (1.89%) GCP
7 3 (1.89%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.89%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.26%) Figma
9 1 (0.63%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.63%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.63%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.63%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.77%) Internet
2 3 (1.89%) Diameter Protocol
2 3 (1.89%) GGSN
2 3 (1.89%) HTTP
2 3 (1.89%) IPsec
2 3 (1.89%) PuTTY
2 3 (1.89%) SGSN
3 2 (1.26%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.63%) DNS
4 1 (0.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.52%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.63%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.63%) DB2
4 1 (0.63%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.63%) Metadata
4 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.63%) MySQL
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.63%) Power BI
4 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (20.13%) JIRA
2 19 (11.95%) Selenium
3 12 (7.55%) Cucumber
4 11 (6.92%) Cypress.io
4 11 (6.92%) LoadRunner
5 9 (5.66%) Git
6 8 (5.03%) Jenkins
7 7 (4.40%) JMeter
7 7 (4.40%) JUnit
8 6 (3.77%) Postman
9 5 (3.14%) Bitbucket
9 5 (3.14%) Subversion
10 4 (2.52%) GitLab
10 4 (2.52%) SpecFlow
10 4 (2.52%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.89%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.89%) SoapUI
11 3 (1.89%) TestNG
11 3 (1.89%) TestRail
11 3 (1.89%) WebDriver
General
1 46 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 35 (22.01%) Finance
3 15 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.92%) Banking
5 8 (5.03%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.03%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.40%) Automotive
7 5 (3.14%) Back Office
7 5 (3.14%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.52%) Legal
8 4 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.52%) Wholesale Banking
9 3 (1.89%) Law
10 2 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.26%) Electronics
10 2 (1.26%) German Language
10 2 (1.26%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.26%) Marketing
10 2 (1.26%) Retail
10 2 (1.26%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 39 (24.53%) Analyst
2 28 (17.61%) Tester
3 23 (14.47%) Test Analyst
4 20 (12.58%) Senior
5 18 (11.32%) Test Engineer
6 17 (10.69%) Lead
7 15 (9.43%) Developer
8 13 (8.18%) Test Leader
9 12 (7.55%) Test Manager
10 10 (6.29%) Automation Tester
10 10 (6.29%) Systems Engineer
11 8 (5.03%) Business Analyst
11 8 (5.03%) QA Engineer
12 7 (4.40%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (4.40%) Senior Test Analyst
13 6 (3.77%) Senior Test Engineer
14 5 (3.14%) Functional Analyst
14 5 (3.14%) Performance Test Leader
14 5 (3.14%) Principal Systems Engineer
14 5 (3.14%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.92%) Node.js
2 10 (6.29%) REST
3 7 (4.40%) Jest
3 7 (4.40%) SOAP
4 6 (3.77%) Gherkin
4 6 (3.77%) JSON
4 6 (3.77%) Redux
5 5 (3.14%) GraphQL
6 4 (2.52%) .NET
6 4 (2.52%) ADO
6 4 (2.52%) Next.js
6 4 (2.52%) React
6 4 (2.52%) Web Services
6 4 (2.52%) XML
7 3 (1.89%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.89%) OAuth
7 3 (1.89%) OpenAPI
7 3 (1.89%) OpenID
7 3 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.66%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.40%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.14%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.89%) Online Banking
7 2 (1.26%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.26%) DTCC
7 2 (1.26%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.26%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.26%) Wiki
8 1 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.63%) PKI
8 1 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.63%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.81%) Unix
2 8 (5.03%) Linux
3 3 (1.89%) Android
3 3 (1.89%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.89%) Windows
4 1 (0.63%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.63%) CentOS
4 1 (0.63%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (44.65%) Agile
2 67 (42.14%) Test Automation
3 49 (30.82%) Non-Functional Testing
4 37 (23.27%) Test Strategy
5 33 (20.75%) Performance Testing
6 32 (20.13%) Scenario Testing
7 31 (19.50%) DevOps
8 29 (18.24%) Software Testing
9 27 (16.98%) User Acceptance Testing
10 26 (16.35%) Test Scripting
11 24 (15.09%) Defect Management
11 24 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (15.09%) Regression Testing
12 23 (14.47%) CI/CD
12 23 (14.47%) End-to-End Testing
13 22 (13.84%) Integration Testing
14 18 (11.32%) Migration
15 17 (10.69%) Test Management
15 17 (10.69%) Test Planning
16 16 (10.06%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (11.95%) SQL
2 18 (11.32%) Java
3 17 (10.69%) Python
4 14 (8.81%) JavaScript
5 10 (6.29%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.03%) C#
7 5 (3.14%) C
7 5 (3.14%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.89%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.26%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.26%) Ruby
9 2 (1.26%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.63%) C++
10 1 (0.63%) ProC
10 1 (0.63%) R
10 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.84%) SC Cleared
3 20 (12.58%) Degree
4 18 (11.32%) ISTQB
5 7 (4.40%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.52%) ISEB
7 3 (1.89%) CCNA
7 3 (1.89%) CCNP
7 3 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.26%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.26%) HNC
8 2 (1.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (1.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.63%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (27.04%) QA
2 6 (3.77%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.14%) AUTOSAR
3 5 (3.14%) ISO 26262
3 5 (3.14%) MISRA
3 5 (3.14%) MISRA C
4 2 (1.26%) MiFID
4 2 (1.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (3.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.89%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.63%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.55%) Oracle
3 6 (3.77%) IBM
3 6 (3.77%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.52%) HP
4 4 (2.52%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.89%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (1.89%) Google
5 3 (1.89%) iManage
5 3 (1.89%) Intapp
5 3 (1.89%) Microgen
5 3 (1.89%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.26%) Databricks
6 2 (1.26%) SAP
6 2 (1.26%) VMware
6 2 (1.26%) Workday
7 1 (0.63%) Cognos
7 1 (0.63%) Informatica
7 1 (0.63%) Pegasus
7 1 (0.63%) Salesforce