Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Functional Testing
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Functional Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 14 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.26% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 0
10th Percentile £315 - -
25th Percentile £402 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £494 - -
90th Percentile £575 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 295 185 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 89.67% 92.96% 85.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 93 100
10th Percentile £179 £280 £248
25th Percentile £366 £354 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -7.22% -11.82%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £600
90th Percentile £578 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £454 £475
% change year-on-year -0.88% -4.42% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 1
10th Percentile £14.05 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.59 £14.83 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% - -28.89%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.25 £16.50
90th Percentile £54.50 £19.93 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £27.63 £16.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +72.66% -8.57% -22.22%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Functional Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Functional Testing job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Functional Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in Newcastle upon Tyne

Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 6 (42.86%) REST Assured
3 5 (35.71%) GitLab
4 3 (21.43%) JIRA
5 2 (14.29%) Postman
6 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
6 1 (7.14%) Gatling
6 1 (7.14%) JMeter
6 1 (7.14%) Selenium
6 1 (7.14%) TestRail
General
1 7 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Java Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Java Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Manual Tester
4 2 (14.29%) Software Tester
4 2 (14.29%) Tester
5 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) QA Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) Spring Boot
2 6 (42.86%) REST
2 6 (42.86%) WireMock
3 3 (21.43%) Spring
4 2 (14.29%) Playwright
5 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
5 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (85.71%) BDD
2 12 (85.71%) Non-Functional Testing
2 12 (85.71%) Test Automation
3 11 (78.57%) Containerisation
3 11 (78.57%) TDD
4 8 (57.14%) Microservices
5 7 (50.00%) Agile
6 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
7 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (28.57%) API Testing
8 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
8 4 (28.57%) Performance Testing
8 4 (28.57%) SDLC
8 4 (28.57%) Security Testing
8 4 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (28.57%) User Stories
9 3 (21.43%) API Development
9 3 (21.43%) DevOps
9 3 (21.43%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
2 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes