Functional Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 265 320 351
Rank change year-on-year +55 +31 -24
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 71 79 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.38% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.45% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 49 83
10th Percentile £375 £387 £319
25th Percentile £400 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £575
90th Percentile £538 £590 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 0
10th Percentile £51.63 £19.25 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £39.55 -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -
75th Percentile £54.69 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £54.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Functional Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Functional Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +58 31 £425 -5.56% 69
Midlands +17 14 £500 +8.93% 43
West Midlands +13 12 £500 +5.26% 24
East of England +35 8 £400 -12.57% 37
North of England +11 8 £413 -4.07% 57
Scotland +17 7 £425 -22.73% 13
North West +15 5 £425 +5.59% 36
South West +39 2 £515 -1.90% 37
East Midlands +6 2 £825 +86.23% 16
Yorkshire +4 2 £455 -5.89% 17
North East -2 1 £390 -4.88% 4
Wales -3 1 £525 - 8
Functional Testing
UK

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 21 (29.58%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) Appian
2 1 (1.41%) CICS
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (28.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.82%) OrCAD
3 1 (1.41%) Fusion 360
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.41%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (1.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.68%) Azure
2 8 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (4.23%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (4.23%) GitHub
3 3 (4.23%) Power Platform
3 3 (4.23%) Serverless
4 2 (2.82%) AWS
4 2 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.82%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.41%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.23%) DB2
1 3 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.82%) InfluxDB
2 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.82%) MS Access
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.82%) Power BI
3 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 32 (45.07%) JIRA
2 17 (23.94%) Visual Studio
3 15 (21.13%) Selenium
4 8 (11.27%) JMeter
4 8 (11.27%) Postman
5 7 (9.86%) Git
6 6 (8.45%) GitLab
7 4 (5.63%) Cucumber
7 4 (5.63%) Jenkins
7 4 (5.63%) JUnit
8 3 (4.23%) LabVIEW
8 3 (4.23%) Mockito
8 3 (4.23%) REST Assured
8 3 (4.23%) TestNG
8 3 (4.23%) Travis CI
9 2 (2.82%) SoapUI
9 2 (2.82%) SpecFlow
10 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.41%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (1.41%) WebDriver
General
1 33 (46.48%) Social Skills
2 21 (29.58%) Finance
3 13 (18.31%) Manufacturing
4 9 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (7.04%) Electronics
6 4 (5.63%) Aerospace
7 3 (4.23%) Banking
7 3 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.82%) Automotive
8 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Aviation
9 1 (1.41%) Avionics
9 1 (1.41%) Back Office
9 1 (1.41%) Local Government
9 1 (1.41%) Military
9 1 (1.41%) Retail
9 1 (1.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 19 (26.76%) Developer
2 16 (22.54%) Delphi Developer
3 14 (19.72%) Tester
4 9 (12.68%) Analyst
5 5 (7.04%) Test Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) Consultant
6 4 (5.63%) Test Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Test Manager
7 3 (4.23%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Development Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Senior
7 3 (4.23%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Test Consultant
7 3 (4.23%) Test Development Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Electrical Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Functional Consultant
8 2 (2.82%) Functional Tester
8 2 (2.82%) Hardware Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Lead
8 2 (2.82%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.23%) .NET
1 3 (4.23%) Hibernate
1 3 (4.23%) Playwright
1 3 (4.23%) Spring
1 3 (4.23%) Spring Boot
1 3 (4.23%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (2.82%) Middleware
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.82%) Web Services
3 1 (1.41%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.41%) CSS
3 1 (1.41%) HTML
3 1 (1.41%) ISPF
3 1 (1.41%) JSON
3 1 (1.41%) Node.js
3 1 (1.41%) React
3 1 (1.41%) WireMock
3 1 (1.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.45%) Algorithms
1 6 (8.45%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (8.45%) SCADA
2 5 (7.04%) Analogue Electronics
2 5 (7.04%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.82%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.82%) Replication
4 1 (1.41%) CMDB
4 1 (1.41%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.41%) Derivative
4 1 (1.41%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.41%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (29.58%) Windows
2 4 (5.63%) Unix
3 2 (2.82%) Linux
4 1 (1.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (56.34%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (43.66%) Agile
2 31 (43.66%) Test Automation
3 18 (25.35%) Root Cause Analysis
4 15 (21.13%) Collaborative Working
4 15 (21.13%) DevOps
4 15 (21.13%) Performance Testing
5 14 (19.72%) Non-Functional Testing
6 11 (15.49%) Validation
7 10 (14.08%) API Testing
7 10 (14.08%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (11.27%) Test Scripting
8 8 (11.27%) Test Strategy
9 7 (9.86%) Scenario Testing
10 6 (8.45%) CI/CD
10 6 (8.45%) Integration Testing
10 6 (8.45%) Manual Testing
10 6 (8.45%) Optimization Problems
10 6 (8.45%) System Testing
10 6 (8.45%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (40.85%) SQL
2 21 (29.58%) C#
3 17 (23.94%) PL/SQL
4 16 (22.54%) Delphi
5 12 (16.90%) Java
6 11 (15.49%) Python
7 5 (7.04%) Bash
8 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.23%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.82%) C
9 2 (2.82%) Go
9 2 (2.82%) Tcl
9 2 (2.82%) VBA
10 1 (1.41%) JCL
10 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (25.35%) Degree
2 11 (15.49%) Security Cleared
3 10 (14.08%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.45%) ISTQB
5 4 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.23%) CEH
6 3 (4.23%) CISSP
6 3 (4.23%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.41%) ACCA
7 1 (1.41%) CBAP
7 1 (1.41%) CIMA
7 1 (1.41%) CIPFA
7 1 (1.41%) ICAEW
7 1 (1.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (22.54%) QA
2 2 (2.82%) DO-160
2 2 (2.82%) DO-254
3 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (5.63%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (4.23%) Kibana
1 3 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.82%) Grafana
3 1 (1.41%) CA Endevor
3 1 (1.41%) OPNET
3 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (38.03%) Oracle
2 23 (32.39%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.23%) Mentor Graphics
4 2 (2.82%) Citrix
4 2 (2.82%) EMC
5 1 (1.41%) Adobe
5 1 (1.41%) Ariba
5 1 (1.41%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.41%) BT
5 1 (1.41%) Civica
5 1 (1.41%) IBM
5 1 (1.41%) Informatica
5 1 (1.41%) Ingenico
5 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.41%) SAP
5 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.41%) Siemens
5 1 (1.41%) Twitter