Functional Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Functional Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 108 144
Rank change year-on-year +6 +36 +37
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 16 23 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.81% 0.85% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.04% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 7
10th Percentile £400 £303 £283
25th Percentile £475 £310 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £521 £497 £550
90th Percentile £548 £534 £640
England median daily rate £475 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,747 2,205 2,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.28% 81.91% 88.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 1,487 2,014
10th Percentile £200 £235 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £498
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -6.03% +4.74%
75th Percentile £558 £596 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 169 102
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.05
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.91 £14.64
Median hourly rate £18.75 £18.00 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -19.41% +27.41%
75th Percentile £25.11 £33.25 £38.96
90th Percentile £48.20 £55.00 £57.25
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the Midlands

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in the Midlands

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in the Midlands

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in the Midlands

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 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
West Midlands +12 14 £500 +14.29% 9
East Midlands -2 2 £825 +116.39% 9
Functional Testing
England

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (18.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Fusion 360
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (6.25%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (6.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) Selenium
3 3 (18.75%) Git
3 3 (18.75%) GitLab
3 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (18.75%) JMeter
3 3 (18.75%) Postman
3 3 (18.75%) REST Assured
3 3 (18.75%) TestNG
3 3 (18.75%) Travis CI
4 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
4 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
4 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Tester
2 2 (12.50%) Commissioning Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Commissioning Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Finance Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Lead Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Project Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) JSON
2 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (43.75%) SCADA
2 1 (6.25%) Derivative
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Performance Testing
2 7 (43.75%) Network Monitoring
2 7 (43.75%) Systems Engineering
3 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 4 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 3 (18.75%) API Testing
5 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
5 3 (18.75%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (18.75%) Security Testing
5 3 (18.75%) SIEM
5 3 (18.75%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (18.75%) Sprint Retrospective
5 3 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Bash
1 3 (18.75%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) C#
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) CEH
2 3 (18.75%) CISSP
2 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (18.75%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.25%) ACCA
3 1 (6.25%) CBAP
3 1 (6.25%) CIMA
3 1 (6.25%) CIPFA
3 1 (6.25%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kibana
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe
2 1 (6.25%) Autodesk
2 1 (6.25%) Civica
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Siemens