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 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 305 290 369
Rank change year-on-year -15 +79 -33
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 88 223 253
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.49% 0.82% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.90% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 165 174
10th Percentile £400 £416 £363
25th Percentile £431 £525 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.20% +25.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £628 £696 £611
90th Percentile £725 £810 £696
England median daily rate £494 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -14.13% +21.05% +0.48%
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 15,803 24,767 35,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.42% 91.14% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,321 17,758 26,094
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
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 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 288 429
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.23
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.86 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +9.86% +10.18%
75th Percentile £47.50 £62.55 £50.00
90th Percentile £66.10 £78.15 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

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 25 April 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 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
Central London +32 10 £525 -22.22% 2
West London - 3 - - 2
East London - 1 £435 - 3
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 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.55%) Appian
3 2 (2.27%) Confluence
4 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.14%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.27%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.27%) Trello
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.14%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.32%) Azure
2 12 (13.64%) AWS
3 8 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.82%) Serverless
5 4 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.41%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.41%) PowerApps
6 3 (3.41%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (2.27%) Apigee
7 2 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.27%) GCP
8 1 (1.14%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.14%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.14%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.14%) GitHub
8 1 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) Internet
2 2 (2.27%) HTTP
3 1 (1.14%) DNS
3 1 (1.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.41%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.14%) Data Hub
4 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.14%) DB2
4 1 (1.14%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.14%) Metadata
4 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.14%) MySQL
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.14%) Power BI
4 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (22.73%) JIRA
2 13 (14.77%) Selenium
3 12 (13.64%) Cucumber
4 10 (11.36%) LoadRunner
5 5 (5.68%) JMeter
6 4 (4.55%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.55%) Git
6 4 (4.55%) Jenkins
6 4 (4.55%) JUnit
6 4 (4.55%) SpecFlow
7 3 (3.41%) NeoLoad
7 3 (3.41%) Postman
7 3 (3.41%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (3.41%) WebDriver
8 2 (2.27%) Maven
8 2 (2.27%) Mocha
8 2 (2.27%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.27%) TestNG
8 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio
8 2 (2.27%) Xcode
General
1 30 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.45%) Finance
3 8 (9.09%) Banking
4 6 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.68%) Back Office
5 5 (5.68%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.55%) Legal
6 4 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.55%) Wholesale Banking
7 3 (3.41%) Law
8 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.14%) Danish Language
9 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.14%) Marketing
9 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Retail
9 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (27.27%) Analyst
2 14 (15.91%) Developer
2 14 (15.91%) Lead
3 12 (13.64%) Test Analyst
4 11 (12.50%) Senior
4 11 (12.50%) Test Leader
4 11 (12.50%) Tester
5 8 (9.09%) Test Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Business Analyst
6 7 (7.95%) QA Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Performance Test Leader
7 5 (5.68%) React Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Test Manager
8 4 (4.55%) Appian Developer
8 4 (4.55%) Automation Tester
8 4 (4.55%) QA Test Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (4.55%) Senior Test Analyst
9 3 (3.41%) Functional Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.23%) Node.js
2 7 (7.95%) Jest
2 7 (7.95%) REST
3 6 (6.82%) Redux
4 5 (5.68%) Gherkin
4 5 (5.68%) SOAP
5 4 (4.55%) ADO
5 4 (4.55%) GraphQL
5 4 (4.55%) JSON
5 4 (4.55%) Next.js
5 4 (4.55%) React
6 3 (3.41%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (3.41%) Middleware
6 3 (3.41%) pytest
6 3 (3.41%) React Native
6 3 (3.41%) Web Services
6 3 (3.41%) XML
7 2 (2.27%) .NET
7 2 (2.27%) OAuth
7 2 (2.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.41%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.27%) DTCC
3 2 (2.27%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.27%) Wiki
4 1 (1.14%) Blog
4 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.14%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.14%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.14%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.14%) PKI
4 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.14%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.09%) Unix
2 5 (5.68%) Linux
3 3 (3.41%) Android
3 3 (3.41%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.27%) Windows
5 1 (1.14%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (1.14%) CentOS
5 1 (1.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (48.86%) Test Automation
2 40 (45.45%) Agile
3 24 (27.27%) Non-Functional Testing
4 23 (26.14%) Performance Testing
5 20 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 20 (22.73%) Test Strategy
6 17 (19.32%) DevOps
6 17 (19.32%) Regression Testing
6 17 (19.32%) Test Scripting
7 15 (17.05%) Defect Management
7 15 (17.05%) Scenario Testing
7 15 (17.05%) User Acceptance Testing
8 14 (15.91%) Software Testing
9 13 (14.77%) End-to-End Testing
9 13 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (12.50%) BDD
11 10 (11.36%) Migration
11 10 (11.36%) System Integration Testing
11 10 (11.36%) Test Planning
12 9 (10.23%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.77%) SQL
2 11 (12.50%) Java
3 10 (11.36%) Python
3 10 (11.36%) TypeScript
4 6 (6.82%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.55%) C#
6 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.27%) Ruby
7 1 (1.14%) C++
7 1 (1.14%) R
7 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (11.36%) Degree
2 9 (10.23%) SC Cleared
2 9 (10.23%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.82%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.55%) ISEB
5 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.27%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (29.55%) QA
2 2 (2.27%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.27%) MiFID
2 2 (2.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (3.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.41%) HP ALM
1 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.14%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (1.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.82%) IBM
3 5 (5.68%) Oracle
4 4 (4.55%) HP
4 4 (4.55%) TIBCO
5 3 (3.41%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (3.41%) iManage
5 3 (3.41%) Intapp
5 3 (3.41%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.27%) Databricks
6 2 (2.27%) Google
6 2 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.27%) VMware
6 2 (2.27%) Workday
7 1 (1.14%) Informatica
7 1 (1.14%) Pegasus