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 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 289 313 287
Rank change year-on-year +24 -26 +64
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 65 94 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.52% 0.53% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.60% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 60 149
10th Percentile £375 £400 £413
25th Percentile £413 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -17.00% +32.98%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £700
90th Percentile £638 £721 £810
England median daily rate £475 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £54.95
25th Percentile - - £57.88
Median hourly rate £31.00 - £64.00
75th Percentile - - £71.38
90th Percentile - - £75.05
England median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -8.70% +8.49% +17.78%

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 11,586 15,540 22,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.34% 88.29% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,766 11,085 16,505
10th Percentile £338 £343 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 312 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.51
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -26.72% +9.63%
75th Percentile £50.25 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £67.90 £82.50
England median hourly rate £26.45 £37.75 £35.03
% change year-on-year -29.93% +7.76% +36.41%

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 23 June 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 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
Central London +2 6 £500 -11.43% 16
West London +16 2 £600 - 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 3 (4.62%) Confluence
1 3 (4.62%) SharePoint
1 3 (4.62%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.54%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (6.15%) Oracle Cash Management
1 4 (6.15%) Oracle General Ledger
1 4 (6.15%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (6.15%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (3.08%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.08%) Finacle
2 2 (3.08%) SAP CRM
3 1 (1.54%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.54%) Endur
3 1 (1.54%) Murex MxG2000
3 1 (1.54%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.54%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.85%) Azure
2 8 (12.31%) AWS
3 5 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (7.69%) Serverless
4 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.15%) SaaS
5 3 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (4.62%) AWS CodePipeline
5 3 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.62%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.62%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.08%) BrowserStack
6 2 (3.08%) GitHub
6 2 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.08%) OCI
6 2 (3.08%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) Firewall
1 1 (1.54%) LAN
1 1 (1.54%) Unified Communications
1 1 (1.54%) WAN
1 1 (1.54%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (6.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 4 (6.15%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.15%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.62%) Power BI
4 2 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.08%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (3.08%) Redis
4 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.54%) Big Data
5 1 (1.54%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) JIRA
2 4 (6.15%) Cypress.io
3 3 (4.62%) Appium
3 3 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.62%) Selenium
4 2 (3.08%) CircleCI
4 2 (3.08%) Gatling
4 2 (3.08%) JUnit
4 2 (3.08%) LoadRunner
4 2 (3.08%) NUnit
5 1 (1.54%) Git
5 1 (1.54%) GitLab
5 1 (1.54%) Gradle
5 1 (1.54%) JMeter
5 1 (1.54%) Locust
5 1 (1.54%) Postman
5 1 (1.54%) Robot Framework
5 1 (1.54%) TestNG
5 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.54%) Zephyr
General
1 27 (41.54%) Social Skills
2 23 (35.38%) Finance
3 11 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.31%) Back Office
4 8 (12.31%) Front Office
5 6 (9.23%) Banking
6 5 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (6.15%) Marketing
8 3 (4.62%) Manufacturing
8 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
9 2 (3.08%) Billing
9 2 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.08%) Legal
10 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.54%) Local Government
10 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) Analyst
2 11 (16.92%) Consultant
3 9 (13.85%) Developer
4 7 (10.77%) Test Analyst
5 5 (7.69%) Lead
5 5 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
5 5 (7.69%) Senior
5 5 (7.69%) Test Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Business Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Test Manager
6 4 (6.15%) Tester
7 3 (4.62%) Asset Management Consultant
7 3 (4.62%) Charles River Consultant
7 3 (4.62%) Development Consultant
7 3 (4.62%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 3 (4.62%) Lead Consultant
7 3 (4.62%) SAP Consultant
7 3 (4.62%) Senior Test Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Systems Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) REST
2 5 (7.69%) XML
3 4 (6.15%) .NET
3 4 (6.15%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (6.15%) React
4 3 (4.62%) Puppeteer
4 3 (4.62%) XSLT
5 2 (3.08%) Django
5 2 (3.08%) Express.js
5 2 (3.08%) Kafka
5 2 (3.08%) Murex MxML
5 2 (3.08%) Node.js
5 2 (3.08%) Spring
6 1 (1.54%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.54%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.54%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.54%) jQuery
6 1 (1.54%) pytest
6 1 (1.54%) RESTful
6 1 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
1 4 (6.15%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.62%) Derivative
2 3 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (4.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (3.08%) Credit Derivative
3 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.08%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.08%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.08%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 2 (3.08%) PDA
3 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.08%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.54%) CMDB
4 1 (1.54%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.54%) FMCG
4 1 (1.54%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Android
1 4 (6.15%) Windows
2 3 (4.62%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.62%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.08%) Linux
3 2 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.92%) Test Automation
2 20 (30.77%) User Acceptance Testing
3 19 (29.23%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (27.69%) Non-Functional Testing
5 16 (24.62%) Agile
6 12 (18.46%) DevOps
6 12 (18.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (13.85%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (13.85%) Migration
7 9 (13.85%) Test Strategy
8 8 (12.31%) Defect Management
8 8 (12.31%) SDLC
8 8 (12.31%) System Integration Testing
9 7 (10.77%) CI/CD
9 7 (10.77%) Logistics
9 7 (10.77%) Validation
10 6 (9.23%) Asset Management
10 6 (9.23%) Project Management
10 6 (9.23%) Regression Testing
10 6 (9.23%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.08%) SQL
2 8 (12.31%) Java
2 8 (12.31%) JavaScript
3 5 (7.69%) Python
4 4 (6.15%) C#
4 4 (6.15%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.54%) ABAP
5 1 (1.54%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (16.92%) SC Cleared
1 11 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.15%) Degree
3 3 (4.62%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.54%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.46%) QA
2 4 (6.15%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.08%) Grafana
3 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (15.38%) ServiceNow
2 7 (10.77%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.77%) Oracle
3 5 (7.69%) Charles River
4 4 (6.15%) SAP
5 3 (4.62%) Murex
6 2 (3.08%) Bloomberg
6 2 (3.08%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.08%) Sybase
7 1 (1.54%) Ariba
7 1 (1.54%) Cisco
7 1 (1.54%) Civica
7 1 (1.54%) Databricks
7 1 (1.54%) Genesys
7 1 (1.54%) Mitel
7 1 (1.54%) OpenLink
7 1 (1.54%) Rockwell
7 1 (1.54%) Splunk
7 1 (1.54%) Workday