Functional Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Functional Testing
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 118 153 174
Rank change year-on-year +35 +21 -38
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 19 10 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.69% 0.29% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.33% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 18
10th Percentile £311 £283 £256
25th Percentile £391 £328 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - +44.00%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £499
90th Percentile £538 £640 £583
England median daily rate £494 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -14.13% +21.05% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 - £41.62
% change year-on-year - - -15.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,253 3,057 4,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.14% 88.38% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,505 2,131 3,302
10th Percentile £236 £250 £233
25th Percentile £356 £370 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 120 155
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.80 £10.20
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.00 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.64 £22.00
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.25 £33.30
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

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

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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 25 April 2024.

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

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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 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
West Midlands +34 13 £475 - 4
East Midlands +21 6 £443 +23.06% 5
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:

Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Simulink
1 5 (26.32%) Stateflow
1 5 (26.32%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (5.26%) SAP PM
1 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
1 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.26%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Bitbucket
1 5 (26.32%) Git
1 5 (26.32%) Subversion
2 4 (21.05%) JIRA
3 1 (5.26%) JMeter
3 1 (5.26%) SoapUI
3 1 (5.26%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (26.32%) Automotive
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Analyst
1 5 (26.32%) Control Systems Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) Systems Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) Test Analyst
1 5 (26.32%) Tester
2 4 (21.05%) Automation Tester
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Test Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Test Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Manual Test Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) SAP PM Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) BAPI
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (5.26%) SOAP
2 1 (5.26%) Web Services
2 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Algorithms
1 5 (26.32%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Agile
2 7 (36.84%) Integration Testing
2 7 (36.84%) Software Testing
2 7 (36.84%) Test Strategy
3 6 (31.58%) Scenario Testing
3 6 (31.58%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (26.32%) Black-Box Testing
4 5 (26.32%) End-to-End Testing
4 5 (26.32%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 5 (26.32%) Line Management
4 5 (26.32%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 5 (26.32%) Project Management
4 5 (26.32%) QMS
4 5 (26.32%) Quality Management
4 5 (26.32%) Software Audit
4 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
4 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
4 5 (26.32%) Validation
4 5 (26.32%) Verification and Validation
4 5 (26.32%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) C
1 5 (26.32%) MATLAB
2 1 (5.26%) ProC
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Degree
1 5 (26.32%) Master's Degree
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.26%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) AUTOSAR
1 5 (26.32%) ISO 26262
1 5 (26.32%) MISRA
1 5 (26.32%) MISRA C
2 4 (21.05%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.26%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) SAP