Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Functional Testing
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Functional Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 50 59
Rank change year-on-year -14 +9 +11
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 5 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.82% 0.29% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.31% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £330 - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £481 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +4.00% -2.63% -0.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 526 320 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 85.95% 94.12% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 210 344
10th Percentile £204 £204 £203
25th Percentile £363 £261 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £484 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +4.70% -11.90%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £556
90th Percentile £630 £600 £663
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £514
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.72% -0.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 38 36
10th Percentile £16.15 £21.41 £14.76
25th Percentile £33.00 £28.00 £35.63
Median hourly rate £63.75 £55.00 £63.63
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -13.57% +30.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £75.00
90th Percentile - - £76.86
South East median hourly rate £52.46 £22.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +133.17% -60.77% +9.24%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Functional Testing job vacancy trend in Surrey

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Functional Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in Surrey over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in Surrey

Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Functional Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 8 September 2026. 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
Weybridge - 3 £630 -
Staines - 1 £275 -
Functional Testing
South East

Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) Functional Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Development Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Development Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Development Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (20.00%) Budgeting
3 1 (20.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Data Reconciliation
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Planning and Forecasting
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (20.00%) SDET
3 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Ruby
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Tagetik