Functional Testing Contracts in the Thames Valley

Functional Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 92 136 126
Rank change year-on-year +44 -10 +14
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 10 9 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.66% 0.34% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.38% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 18
10th Percentile - - £313
25th Percentile £375 £400 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 £350
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +25.00% -11.95%
75th Percentile £500 £502 £400
90th Percentile - £506 £511
South East median daily rate £425 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -5.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the Thames Valley

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Functional Testing in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in the Thames Valley

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in the Thames Valley

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Functional Testing in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in the Thames Valley

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +36 8 £500 +25.00% 8
Buckinghamshire +15 2 £375 - 9
Functional Testing
South East

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MS Access
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Postman
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Automotive
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Functional Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Test Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Algorithms
2 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (60.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (60.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 6 (60.00%) Mathematics
3 6 (60.00%) Optimization Problems
3 6 (60.00%) Scenario Testing
4 5 (50.00%) Data Collection
5 3 (30.00%) Integration Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Validation
6 2 (20.00%) DevOps
6 2 (20.00%) Logistics
6 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Microservices
6 2 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Test Planning
6 2 (20.00%) User Stories
6 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Citrix