Functional Testing Contracts in the South East

Functional Testing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Functional Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Functional Testing over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 189 184
Rank change year-on-year +16 -5 -15
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 26 25 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.47% 0.45% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.50% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 64
10th Percentile £320 £313 £294
25th Percentile £350 £335 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £406
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +4.62% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £513 £470
90th Percentile £593 £575 £529
England median daily rate £500 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £20.50 - £18.50
75th Percentile £21.75 - £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Functional Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,666 4,990 6,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.55% 89.04% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,714 3,437 4,712
10th Percentile £255 £250 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 214 276
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.24 £12.28
25th Percentile £18.23 £22.16 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.95
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +127.79% -20.18%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.91 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.93 £75.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +11.11%

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 28 May 2024.

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 28 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley +11 13 £500 +37.93% 6
Berkshire -2 7 £538 +8.86% 1
Surrey - 7 £350 - 1
Hampshire -10 5 £500 - 2
Oxfordshire +9 4 £488 +21.88% 3
West Sussex - 3 £550 - 1
Buckinghamshire +21 2 - - 2
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 4 (15.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.54%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.69%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.85%) AWS
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.69%) tcpdump
2 2 (7.69%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Selenium
2 4 (15.38%) Cucumber
2 4 (15.38%) JIRA
2 4 (15.38%) Maven
2 4 (15.38%) TestRail
3 3 (11.54%) JMeter
4 1 (3.85%) GitLab
4 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.85%) JUnit
4 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.85%) TestNG
4 1 (3.85%) Travis CI
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Automotive
4 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.69%) German Language
4 2 (7.69%) Spanish Language
5 1 (3.85%) Electronics
5 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Test Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Analyst
2 5 (19.23%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Consultant
3 4 (15.38%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Systems Test Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Test Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Test Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Test Manager
4 3 (11.54%) Tester
4 3 (11.54%) Unix Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Unix Systems Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Performance Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Performance Test Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Performance Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Test Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Gherkin
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Linux
2 4 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Agile
2 16 (61.54%) Test Automation
3 9 (34.62%) DevOps
4 7 (26.92%) Scrum
5 6 (23.08%) Performance Testing
6 5 (19.23%) Software Testing
6 5 (19.23%) Test Management
7 4 (15.38%) Defect Management
7 4 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (15.38%) ERP
7 4 (15.38%) Event-Driven
7 4 (15.38%) Exploratory Testing
7 4 (15.38%) Integration Testing
7 4 (15.38%) Manual Testing
7 4 (15.38%) Non-Functional Testing
7 4 (15.38%) Project Planning
7 4 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (15.38%) SDLC
7 4 (15.38%) TDD
7 4 (15.38%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) Java
1 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
1 4 (15.38%) Python
1 4 (15.38%) Shell Script
1 4 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) ISTQB
2 5 (19.23%) Degree
3 4 (15.38%) HNC
3 4 (15.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 4 (15.38%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle