Functional Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Functional Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 347 324
Rank change year-on-year +35 -23 -79
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 78 112 199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.46% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.52% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 82 139
10th Percentile £387 £319 £263
25th Percentile £400 £366 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -4.49%
75th Percentile £525 £568 £495
90th Percentile £590 £599 £551
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 13
10th Percentile £19.25 - £21.25
25th Percentile £39.55 - £37.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £41.62
75th Percentile £58.75 - £45.00
90th Percentile - - £45.16
UK median hourly rate £57.50 - £41.56
% change year-on-year - - -18.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,611 21,615 27,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.77% 89.54% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,550 14,981 19,185
10th Percentile £248 £252 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,036 1,327 1,379
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.22 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.23 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

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 26 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Functional Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 26 April 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
Midlands +37 19 £459 +2.00% 10
South East +7 18 £450 +12.50% 16
North of England +6 16 £430 -14.00% 15
West Midlands +37 13 £475 - 4
South West +20 9 £525 -4.55% 9
North West +18 7 £403 -4.17% 10
East Midlands +25 6 £443 +23.06% 6
Yorkshire +6 6 £484 -3.30% 3
Wales - 5 - - 1
Scotland +26 3 £550 +29.41% 5
North East +16 3 £410 -28.70% 2
East of England +9 3 £458 -8.50% 10
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Isle of Man - 2 - -
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 3 (3.85%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Simulink
1 5 (6.41%) Stateflow
1 5 (6.41%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (5.13%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (5.13%) Oracle Financials
2 4 (5.13%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (5.13%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (5.13%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (3.85%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (3.85%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (1.28%) SAP PM
5 1 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.10%) Azure
1 11 (14.10%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (10.26%) AWS
3 6 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.28%) Figma
4 1 (1.28%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.28%) IaaS
4 1 (1.28%) PaaS
4 1 (1.28%) SaaS
4 1 (1.28%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) Diameter Protocol
1 3 (3.85%) GGSN
1 3 (3.85%) IPsec
1 3 (3.85%) PuTTY
1 3 (3.85%) SGSN
2 2 (2.56%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 12 (15.38%) JIRA
2 7 (8.97%) Selenium
3 6 (7.69%) Cypress.io
3 6 (7.69%) Git
3 6 (7.69%) Subversion
4 5 (6.41%) Bitbucket
4 5 (6.41%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.41%) JUnit
5 3 (3.85%) Postman
5 3 (3.85%) Toad
6 2 (2.56%) GitLab
6 2 (2.56%) Gradle
6 2 (2.56%) JMeter
6 2 (2.56%) TestRail
7 1 (1.28%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.28%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.28%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.28%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.28%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (24.36%) Social Skills
2 18 (23.08%) Finance
3 9 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.97%) Automotive
5 6 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.41%) Aerospace
6 5 (6.41%) Telecoms
7 4 (5.13%) Banking
8 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.56%) German Language
8 2 (2.56%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.28%) Electronics
9 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (20.51%) Analyst
1 16 (20.51%) Tester
2 12 (15.38%) Test Analyst
3 10 (12.82%) Systems Engineer
3 10 (12.82%) Test Engineer
4 9 (11.54%) Senior
4 9 (11.54%) Test Manager
5 6 (7.69%) Automation Tester
6 5 (6.41%) Control Systems Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Principal Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Senior Test Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Test Technician
7 4 (5.13%) Consultant
7 4 (5.13%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (5.13%) Senior Test Analyst
8 3 (3.85%) Functional Analyst
8 3 (3.85%) Functional Consultant
8 3 (3.85%) Oracle Analyst
8 3 (3.85%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.85%) .NET
1 3 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.56%) Android Jetpack
2 2 (2.56%) Dagger
2 2 (2.56%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (2.56%) REST
2 2 (2.56%) Retrofit
3 1 (1.28%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.28%) BAPI
3 1 (1.28%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.28%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.28%) JSON
3 1 (1.28%) Node.js
3 1 (1.28%) SOAP
3 1 (1.28%) Web Services
3 1 (1.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.97%) Algorithms
1 7 (8.97%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.85%) Online Banking
4 2 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.28%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.28%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.41%) Unix
2 2 (2.56%) Android
2 2 (2.56%) Linux
3 1 (1.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (39.74%) Agile
2 26 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 26 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 20 (25.64%) Test Strategy
4 17 (21.79%) Scenario Testing
4 17 (21.79%) Software Testing
5 15 (19.23%) DevOps
6 13 (16.67%) Integration Testing
6 13 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (15.38%) Test Management
7 12 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
8 11 (14.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (12.82%) Validation
10 9 (11.54%) Defect Management
10 9 (11.54%) End-to-End Testing
10 9 (11.54%) Migration
10 9 (11.54%) Test Scripting
11 8 (10.26%) ERP
11 8 (10.26%) Performance Testing
11 8 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.97%) Java
1 7 (8.97%) JavaScript
2 6 (7.69%) SQL
3 5 (6.41%) C
3 5 (6.41%) C#
3 5 (6.41%) MATLAB
3 5 (6.41%) Python
4 3 (3.85%) PL/SQL
4 3 (3.85%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.56%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.28%) C++
6 1 (1.28%) ProC
6 1 (1.28%) VBA
6 1 (1.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 13 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.82%) Degree
4 7 (8.97%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.85%) CCNA
5 3 (3.85%) CCNP
5 3 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.56%) HNC
7 1 (1.28%) ISEB
7 1 (1.28%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (23.08%) QA
2 5 (6.41%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (6.41%) ISO 26262
2 5 (6.41%) MISRA
2 5 (6.41%) MISRA C
3 4 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (8.97%) Oracle
2 6 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.13%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.85%) Microgen
5 1 (1.28%) Cognos
5 1 (1.28%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.28%) SAP
5 1 (1.28%) Wind River