Functional Testing Contracts in the North East

Functional Testing
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 35 51
Rank change year-on-year -2 +16 -1
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 1 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.31% 0.89% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 1.11% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £387 -
25th Percentile - £394 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £410 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -28.70% +58.62%
75th Percentile - £418 £588
90th Percentile - £419 -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +21.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 270 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.56% 79.88% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 127 300
10th Percentile £225 £242 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £650 £660 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the North East

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in the North East

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Tyne and Wear -7 1 £390 -4.88% 2
Functional Testing
England

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) WireMock
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker