Functional Testing Contracts in Scotland

Functional Testing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 109 126 153
Rank change year-on-year +17 +27 +2
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 7 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.43% 0.14% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.15% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £430 £401
25th Percentile £413 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +29.41% +11.48%
75th Percentile £438 £603 £513
90th Percentile - £605 £585
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in Scotland

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in Scotland

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in Scotland

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow - 3 - - 5
Fife - 3 - -
Functional Testing
UK

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) BrowserStack
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) DB2
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) JUnit
1 3 (42.86%) LabVIEW
1 3 (42.86%) Mockito
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) JMeter
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle APEX
General
1 3 (42.86%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Electronics
1 3 (42.86%) Manufacturing
1 3 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Back Office
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Development Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Test Development Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
1 3 (42.86%) Spring
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Analogue Electronics
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Innovative Thinking
2 3 (42.86%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Schematic Capture
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Cross-Browser Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) Mentor Graphics
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft