Functional Testing Contracts in London

Functional Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 285 359
Rank change year-on-year -20 +74 -17
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 85 213 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.48% 0.79% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.87% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 156 181
10th Percentile £400 £425 £350
25th Percentile £431 £533 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +25.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £634 £696 £600
90th Percentile £725 £810 £688
England median daily rate £500 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -13.04% +21.05% +1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £27.88
25th Percentile - - £32.19
Median hourly rate - - £41.25
75th Percentile - - £52.19
90th Percentile - - £57.63
England median hourly rate £57.50 - £41.62
% change year-on-year - - -15.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,688 24,387 35,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 91.02% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,246 17,526 26,214
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 276 425
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.56 £17.20
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +7.11% +10.84%
75th Percentile £47.34 £64.06 £50.75
90th Percentile £65.68 £80.00 £68.50
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in London

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in London

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in London

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in London

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Central London +23 9 £525 -22.22% 1
West London - 3 - - 2
East London - 1 £435 - 2
Functional Testing
England

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (8.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.71%) Appian
3 2 (2.35%) Confluence
3 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.18%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.18%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.35%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.35%) Trello
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.00%) Azure
2 12 (14.12%) AWS
3 9 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (7.06%) Serverless
5 4 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (4.71%) Tricentis Tosca
6 3 (3.53%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.53%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.35%) Apigee
7 2 (2.35%) GCP
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.18%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.18%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.18%) Figma
8 1 (1.18%) GitHub
8 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.88%) Internet
2 2 (2.35%) HTTP
3 1 (1.18%) DNS
3 1 (1.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.53%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.18%) Data Hub
4 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.18%) DB2
4 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.18%) MySQL
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.18%) Power BI
4 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (21.18%) JIRA
2 11 (12.94%) Cucumber
2 11 (12.94%) Selenium
3 10 (11.76%) LoadRunner
4 5 (5.88%) JMeter
5 4 (4.71%) Cypress.io
5 4 (4.71%) Jenkins
5 4 (4.71%) JUnit
5 4 (4.71%) SpecFlow
6 3 (3.53%) Git
6 3 (3.53%) NeoLoad
6 3 (3.53%) Postman
6 3 (3.53%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (3.53%) WebDriver
7 2 (2.35%) Maven
7 2 (2.35%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.35%) TestNG
7 2 (2.35%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.18%) Rational Performance Tester
8 1 (1.18%) Xcode
General
1 30 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.35%) Finance
3 8 (9.41%) Banking
4 5 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.88%) Back Office
4 5 (5.88%) Investment Banking
4 5 (5.88%) Legal
5 4 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.71%) Wholesale Banking
6 3 (3.53%) Law
7 2 (2.35%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.18%) Danish Language
8 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.18%) Marketing
8 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Retail
8 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (27.06%) Analyst
2 13 (15.29%) Lead
3 12 (14.12%) Developer
4 11 (12.94%) Test Analyst
4 11 (12.94%) Test Leader
4 11 (12.94%) Tester
5 10 (11.76%) Senior
6 8 (9.41%) Test Engineer
7 7 (8.24%) Business Analyst
7 7 (8.24%) QA Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) Test Manager
9 5 (5.88%) Performance Test Leader
9 5 (5.88%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Appian Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Automation Tester
10 4 (4.71%) QA Test Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) React Developer
11 3 (3.53%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
11 3 (3.53%) Senior Analyst
11 3 (3.53%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.59%) Node.js
2 6 (7.06%) Jest
2 6 (7.06%) REST
3 5 (5.88%) Gherkin
3 5 (5.88%) Redux
4 4 (4.71%) ADO
4 4 (4.71%) GraphQL
4 4 (4.71%) Next.js
4 4 (4.71%) React
4 4 (4.71%) SOAP
5 3 (3.53%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (3.53%) JSON
5 3 (3.53%) pytest
6 2 (2.35%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.35%) OAuth
6 2 (2.35%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.35%) OpenID
6 2 (2.35%) Web Services
6 2 (2.35%) XML
6 2 (2.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (4.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.35%) Fixed Income
2 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.35%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.35%) Wiki
3 1 (1.18%) Blog
3 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.18%) Credit Risk
3 1 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.18%) DTCC
3 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.18%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.18%) Market Risk
3 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.18%) PKI
3 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.18%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.41%) Unix
2 5 (5.88%) Linux
3 2 (2.35%) Android
3 2 (2.35%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.35%) Windows
4 1 (1.18%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (1.18%) CentOS
4 1 (1.18%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (49.41%) Test Automation
2 38 (44.71%) Agile
3 24 (28.24%) Performance Testing
4 23 (27.06%) Non-Functional Testing
5 22 (25.88%) Test Strategy
6 19 (22.35%) CI/CD
7 17 (20.00%) DevOps
8 16 (18.82%) Regression Testing
9 15 (17.65%) Defect Management
9 15 (17.65%) Test Scripting
9 15 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
10 13 (15.29%) End-to-End Testing
10 13 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (15.29%) Scenario Testing
10 13 (15.29%) Software Testing
11 11 (12.94%) BDD
11 11 (12.94%) Test Planning
12 10 (11.76%) Migration
13 9 (10.59%) E-Commerce
13 9 (10.59%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.94%) SQL
2 10 (11.76%) Java
3 9 (10.59%) TypeScript
4 8 (9.41%) Python
5 5 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.71%) C#
7 1 (1.18%) C++
7 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.18%) ProC
7 1 (1.18%) R
7 1 (1.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (11.76%) Degree
1 10 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 10 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.06%) ISTQB
3 4 (4.71%) ISEB
4 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.35%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (30.59%) QA
2 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.35%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.35%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (1.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (3.53%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.18%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.18%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.06%) IBM
3 5 (5.88%) Oracle
4 4 (4.71%) TIBCO
5 3 (3.53%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (3.53%) iManage
5 3 (3.53%) Intapp
5 3 (3.53%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.35%) Google
6 2 (2.35%) HP
6 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.35%) VMware
7 1 (1.18%) Databricks
7 1 (1.18%) Informatica
7 1 (1.18%) Pegasus