Functional Testing Contracts in the South East

Functional Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 128 186 187
Rank change year-on-year +58 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 31 19 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.03% 0.34% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.40% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 27
10th Percentile £375 £355 £313
25th Percentile - £400 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -5.66%
75th Percentile £488 £506 £511
90th Percentile £500 £568 £553
England median daily rate £475 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £20.50 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the South East

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in the South East

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in the South East

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Functional Testing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in the South East

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Hampshire +43 18 £425 -15.00% 12
Thames Valley +44 10 £400 -8.57% 20
Berkshire +36 8 £500 +25.00% 8
Buckinghamshire +15 2 £375 - 9
West Sussex +11 2 £475 -13.64% 4
Surrey +12 1 - - 8
Functional Testing
England

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (54.84%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (51.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) Azure
2 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.23%) AWS
3 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.23%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) MS Access
2 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (58.06%) JIRA
2 16 (51.61%) Visual Studio
3 6 (19.35%) Selenium
4 3 (9.68%) Postman
5 2 (6.45%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.45%) Git
5 2 (6.45%) SoapUI
General
1 19 (61.29%) Finance
2 14 (45.16%) Social Skills
3 10 (32.26%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.45%) Automotive
4 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (54.84%) Developer
2 16 (51.61%) Delphi Developer
3 4 (12.90%) Consultant
4 3 (9.68%) Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Test Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Senior
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Test Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Automation Tester
6 1 (3.23%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) Network Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL Developer
6 1 (3.23%) SQL Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Test Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) Middleware
1 2 (6.45%) Playwright
1 2 (6.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Algorithms
2 5 (16.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (61.29%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (80.65%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (54.84%) Agile
2 17 (54.84%) Root Cause Analysis
3 11 (35.48%) Test Automation
4 10 (32.26%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (19.35%) Change Management
5 6 (19.35%) Data Modelling
5 6 (19.35%) Exploratory Testing
5 6 (19.35%) Mathematics
5 6 (19.35%) Optimization Problems
5 6 (19.35%) Scenario Testing
6 5 (16.13%) Data Collection
6 5 (16.13%) Operational Stability
6 5 (16.13%) Validation
7 4 (12.90%) DevOps
7 4 (12.90%) Manual Testing
8 3 (9.68%) Integration Testing
8 3 (9.68%) Non-Functional Testing
8 3 (9.68%) Software Testing
9 2 (6.45%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 21 (67.74%) SQL
2 17 (54.84%) PL/SQL
3 16 (51.61%) C#
3 16 (51.61%) Delphi
4 6 (19.35%) Java
4 6 (19.35%) Python
5 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) Master's Degree
2 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 20 (64.52%) Microsoft
2 17 (54.84%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) Citrix
4 1 (3.23%) BT
4 1 (3.23%) Informatica