Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Functional Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Functional Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 150 145
Rank change year-on-year -14 -5 +52
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 29 23 58
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.69% 0.56% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.66% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 18 37
10th Percentile £302 £301 £345
25th Percentile £319 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £508
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -21.18% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £511 £538
90th Percentile £605 £622 £643
England median daily rate £451 £489 £504
% change year-on-year -7.72% -2.98% +11.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £79.17 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +21.80% +62.50%
England median hourly rate £37.55 £45.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year -16.55% -23.73% +126.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,723 3,497 4,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.00% 84.41% 88.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,448 1,920 2,977
10th Percentile £239 £299 £285
25th Percentile £369 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £563 £575 £600
90th Percentile £671 £650 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 181 213
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.75 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.48 £18.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £23.45 £35.00 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year -33.01% +23.67% +33.18%
75th Percentile £39.19 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £62.80
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Functional Testing job vacancy trend in the North of England

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Functional Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in the North of England

Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Functional Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Yorkshire -8 13 £470 -6.42% 4
North East +3 12 £425 - 7
North West -28 4 £450 +12.50% 2
Functional Testing
England

Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) CMS
1 1 (3.45%) EPiServer
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) AWS
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (6.90%) GCP
3 2 (6.90%) GitHub
3 2 (6.90%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) MySQL
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) JIRA
2 7 (24.14%) Selenium
3 5 (17.24%) Cucumber
3 5 (17.24%) GitLab
3 5 (17.24%) Postman
3 5 (17.24%) REST Assured
4 4 (13.79%) JUnit
5 3 (10.34%) Git
5 3 (10.34%) TestNG
6 2 (6.90%) Appium
6 2 (6.90%) SoapUI
7 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.45%) Gradle
7 1 (3.45%) JMeter
7 1 (3.45%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (34.48%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.24%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Wholesale Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Test Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Java Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Tester
4 3 (10.34%) Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Java Software Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) QA Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Software Tester
4 3 (10.34%) Test Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Test Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Finance Business Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Financial Business Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Manual Tester
5 2 (6.90%) SAP Manager
5 2 (6.90%) SAP Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) Spring Boot
2 6 (20.69%) Spring
3 5 (17.24%) REST
3 5 (17.24%) WireMock
4 3 (10.34%) Hibernate
4 3 (10.34%) RESTful
5 2 (6.90%) Anaconda
5 2 (6.90%) Playwright
6 1 (3.45%) .NET
6 1 (3.45%) ADO
6 1 (3.45%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (3.45%) Dagger
6 1 (3.45%) Express.js
6 1 (3.45%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (3.45%) Kafka
6 1 (3.45%) Node.js
6 1 (3.45%) Pug
6 1 (3.45%) pytest
6 1 (3.45%) Retrofit
6 1 (3.45%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.90%) Credit Risk
2 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) CMDB
3 1 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (68.97%) Test Automation
2 19 (65.52%) CI/CD
3 16 (55.17%) Agile
4 13 (44.83%) Non-Functional Testing
5 11 (37.93%) Microservices
6 10 (34.48%) BDD
6 10 (34.48%) Containerisation
6 10 (34.48%) TDD
7 9 (31.03%) Regression Testing
8 7 (24.14%) Security Testing
8 7 (24.14%) Software Testing
8 7 (24.14%) Test Strategy
9 6 (20.69%) API Testing
9 6 (20.69%) End-to-End Testing
9 6 (20.69%) Integration Testing
9 6 (20.69%) Test Scripting
10 5 (17.24%) DevOps
10 5 (17.24%) Performance Testing
10 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) Java
2 3 (10.34%) Python
3 2 (6.90%) C#
3 2 (6.90%) SQL
3 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.45%) Kotlin
4 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.69%) ISTQB
2 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) Degree
4 2 (6.90%) CISM
4 2 (6.90%) CISSP
5 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) QA
2 5 (17.24%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Terraform
2 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.90%) HP ALM
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.45%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) BeyondTrust
2 2 (6.90%) CyberArk
2 2 (6.90%) Google
2 2 (6.90%) HP
2 2 (6.90%) SAP
2 2 (6.90%) Thycotic
3 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.45%) Optimizely
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow