Functional Testing Contracts in London

Functional Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 292 305 286
Rank change year-on-year +13 -19 +66
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 61 86 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.49% 0.48% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.54% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 54 161
10th Percentile £394 £400 £420
25th Percentile £413 £431 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £625
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -18.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £634 £634 £696
90th Percentile £737 £725 £810
England median daily rate £475 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £31.00 - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Central London +2 8 £754 +43.52% 3
West London +11 2 £600 - 6
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 4 (6.56%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.92%) Confluence
2 3 (4.92%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.64%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (6.56%) Oracle Cash Management
1 4 (6.56%) Oracle General Ledger
1 4 (6.56%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (6.56%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (3.28%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (3.28%) Finacle
2 2 (3.28%) SAP CRM
3 1 (1.64%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.64%) Endur
3 1 (1.64%) Murex MxG2000
3 1 (1.64%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.64%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (1.64%) SAP MM
3 1 (1.64%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.64%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.48%) AWS
2 4 (6.56%) Azure
2 4 (6.56%) GitHub
2 4 (6.56%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (6.56%) Sentry
3 3 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (4.92%) AWS CodePipeline
3 3 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (4.92%) AWS Step Functions
3 3 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (4.92%) SaaS
3 3 (4.92%) Serverless
4 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.28%) OCI
4 2 (3.28%) OneDrive
4 2 (3.28%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.64%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) Firewall
1 1 (1.64%) LAN
1 1 (1.64%) Unified Communications
1 1 (1.64%) WAN
1 1 (1.64%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 4 (6.56%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (6.56%) Redis
3 3 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.28%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (1.64%) Big Data
5 1 (1.64%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.64%) Power BI
5 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Jenkins
1 5 (8.20%) JIRA
2 4 (6.56%) CircleCI
2 4 (6.56%) Cypress.io
2 4 (6.56%) JMeter
3 2 (3.28%) Selenium
4 1 (1.64%) Appium
4 1 (1.64%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.64%) Git
4 1 (1.64%) GitLab
4 1 (1.64%) JUnit
4 1 (1.64%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.64%) Locust
4 1 (1.64%) NeoLoad
4 1 (1.64%) Postman
4 1 (1.64%) Robot Framework
4 1 (1.64%) TestNG
4 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.64%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (45.90%) Social Skills
2 23 (37.70%) Finance
3 12 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (18.03%) Back Office
5 8 (13.11%) Front Office
6 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
7 4 (6.56%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (6.56%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.92%) Banking
8 3 (4.92%) Manufacturing
9 2 (3.28%) Billing
9 2 (3.28%) Marketing
10 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.64%) Legal
10 1 (1.64%) Local Government
10 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (26.23%) Analyst
2 11 (18.03%) Developer
3 10 (16.39%) Consultant
4 8 (13.11%) Business Analyst
5 6 (9.84%) Senior
5 6 (9.84%) Test Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Oracle Developer
6 5 (8.20%) Test Analyst
6 5 (8.20%) Test Manager
7 4 (6.56%) Lead
7 4 (6.56%) Python Developer
7 4 (6.56%) SAP Consultant
7 4 (6.56%) Tester
8 3 (4.92%) Asset Management Consultant
8 3 (4.92%) Lead Consultant
8 3 (4.92%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.92%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (4.92%) Senior Test Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (4.92%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) REST
2 5 (8.20%) React
2 5 (8.20%) XML
3 4 (6.56%) Django
3 4 (6.56%) Express.js
3 4 (6.56%) Node.js
3 4 (6.56%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (4.92%) .NET
4 3 (4.92%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (4.92%) FpML
4 3 (4.92%) Puppeteer
4 3 (4.92%) XSLT
5 2 (3.28%) Murex MxML
6 1 (1.64%) Jest
6 1 (1.64%) Kafka
6 1 (1.64%) Next.js
6 1 (1.64%) Playwright
6 1 (1.64%) pytest
6 1 (1.64%) Spring
6 1 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.92%) Derivative
2 3 (4.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.28%) Credit Derivative
3 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.28%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.28%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.64%) CMDB
4 1 (1.64%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.64%) FMCG
4 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Windows
2 3 (4.92%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.28%) Linux
3 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.64%) Android
4 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (34.43%) Test Automation
2 19 (31.15%) Non-Functional Testing
3 18 (29.51%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (27.87%) User Acceptance Testing
5 15 (24.59%) Agile
6 9 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (14.75%) Test Strategy
7 8 (13.11%) CI/CD
7 8 (13.11%) DevOps
7 8 (13.11%) Requirements Gathering
8 7 (11.48%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (11.48%) E-Commerce
8 7 (11.48%) End-to-End Testing
9 6 (9.84%) Asset Management
9 6 (9.84%) Change Management
9 6 (9.84%) Defect Management
9 6 (9.84%) Migration
9 6 (9.84%) Project Management
9 6 (9.84%) Regression Testing
9 6 (9.84%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (24.59%) SQL
2 7 (11.48%) JavaScript
3 6 (9.84%) Java
4 5 (8.20%) Python
5 4 (6.56%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.64%) ABAP
6 1 (1.64%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 15 (24.59%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.56%) Degree
4 3 (4.92%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.64%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.67%) QA
2 6 (9.84%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (9.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.56%) Grafana
2 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
1 7 (11.48%) Oracle
1 7 (11.48%) ServiceNow
2 5 (8.20%) Charles River
2 5 (8.20%) SAP
3 3 (4.92%) Murex
4 2 (3.28%) Bloomberg
4 2 (3.28%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.28%) Sybase
5 1 (1.64%) Ariba
5 1 (1.64%) Cisco
5 1 (1.64%) Civica
5 1 (1.64%) Databricks
5 1 (1.64%) Genesys
5 1 (1.64%) Google
5 1 (1.64%) Mitel
5 1 (1.64%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.64%) OpenText
5 1 (1.64%) Splunk
5 1 (1.64%) Workday