Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Functional Testing
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Functional Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 15 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 4.62% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.08% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 0
10th Percentile £320 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £494 - -
90th Percentile £575 - -
North East median daily rate £425 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -21.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 295 201 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 90.77% 92.20% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 100 106
10th Percentile £170 £305 £204
25th Percentile £362 £353 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £580
90th Percentile £588 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 9
10th Percentile £14.13 £13.75 £16.10
25th Percentile £16.88 £14.97 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.63 £16.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.66% -13.51% -17.78%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.75 £20.25
90th Percentile £54.38 £50.00 £32.35
North East median hourly rate £28.91 £19.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +52.16% -2.56% -13.33%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Functional Testing job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Functional Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in Tyne and Wear

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 14 £425 - 1
Functional Testing
North East

Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Cucumber
2 7 (46.67%) REST Assured
3 5 (33.33%) GitLab
4 3 (20.00%) JIRA
5 2 (13.33%) Postman
5 2 (13.33%) Selenium
6 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
6 1 (6.67%) Gatling
6 1 (6.67%) JMeter
6 1 (6.67%) TestRail
General
1 8 (53.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Test Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Java Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Manual Tester
4 2 (13.33%) Software Tester
4 2 (13.33%) Tester
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) QA Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 7 (46.67%) REST
2 7 (46.67%) WireMock
3 3 (20.00%) Spring
4 2 (13.33%) Playwright
5 1 (6.67%) Gherkin
5 1 (6.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (86.67%) BDD
2 13 (86.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 13 (86.67%) Test Automation
3 12 (80.00%) Containerisation
3 12 (80.00%) TDD
4 9 (60.00%) Microservices
5 7 (46.67%) Agile
6 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
7 5 (33.33%) API Testing
7 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (33.33%) Performance Testing
7 5 (33.33%) Security Testing
8 4 (26.67%) Integration Testing
8 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
8 4 (26.67%) SDLC
8 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
8 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (26.67%) User Stories
9 3 (20.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes