Functional Testing Contracts

Functional Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 376 366
Rank change year-on-year -11 -10 -7
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 201 358 626
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.62% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.69% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 262 427
10th Percentile £363 £375 £313
25th Percentile £413 £431 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £550
90th Percentile £650 £738 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £425
% change year-on-year - +11.76% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 13
10th Percentile £19.25 - £18.80
25th Percentile £39.55 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £45.00
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile £60.79 - £54.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Functional Testing over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 May 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
England -38 157 £500 -13.04% 80
London -23 87 £513 -18.00% 21
Work from Home +86 85 £500 +5.26% 25
UK excluding London +46 79 £475 - 56
Midlands +43 20 £443 -1.56% 10
South East +7 16 £488 +9.86% 13
North of England +5 16 £448 +5.29% 11
West Midlands +31 13 £475 - 5
South West +14 9 £525 -4.55% 8
North West +21 8 £403 -4.17% 7
East Midlands +24 7 £422 +17.08% 5
Scotland +40 5 £425 - 2
Yorkshire +11 5 £500 +0.05% 3
Wales - 5 - - 2
North East +13 4 £410 -28.70% 1
East of England 0 3 £458 -8.50% 11
Isle of Man - 2 - -

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.99%) Appian
3 4 (1.99%) Confluence
4 3 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.50%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (2.99%) Simulink
2 5 (2.49%) Stateflow
2 5 (2.49%) TargetLink
3 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.00%) Trello
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.99%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.49%) Oracle Assets
2 5 (2.49%) Oracle Financials
2 5 (2.49%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (2.49%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (2.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.49%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.49%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (1.00%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (1.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.50%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.50%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (22.89%) Azure
2 34 (16.92%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (15.92%) AWS
4 15 (7.46%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (6.97%) GitHub
6 12 (5.97%) SaaS
7 11 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (5.47%) IaaS
7 11 (5.47%) PaaS
8 7 (3.48%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.48%) Serverless
9 5 (2.49%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.49%) Tricentis Tosca
10 4 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.49%) Apigee
11 3 (1.49%) GCP
11 3 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.00%) Figma
13 1 (0.50%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.99%) Internet
2 3 (1.49%) HTTP
2 3 (1.49%) PuTTY
3 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.50%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (0.50%) DNS
4 1 (0.50%) GGSN
4 1 (0.50%) IPsec
4 1 (0.50%) SGSN
4 1 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.99%) NoSQL
1 6 (2.99%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.49%) Power BI
2 3 (1.49%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.50%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.50%) DB2
4 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.50%) MySQL
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 32 (15.92%) JIRA
2 21 (10.45%) Selenium
3 15 (7.46%) Cucumber
4 13 (6.47%) LoadRunner
5 12 (5.97%) Cypress.io
6 11 (5.47%) JMeter
7 10 (4.98%) Git
7 10 (4.98%) Jenkins
7 10 (4.98%) JUnit
7 10 (4.98%) SonarQube
8 9 (4.48%) Postman
9 6 (2.99%) Subversion
9 6 (2.99%) WebDriver
10 5 (2.49%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.49%) SoapUI
11 4 (1.99%) Gradle
11 4 (1.99%) Maven
11 4 (1.99%) SpecFlow
11 4 (1.99%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (1.99%) TestNG
General
1 56 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.40%) Finance
3 14 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.47%) Banking
5 12 (5.97%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.98%) Legal
7 7 (3.48%) Automotive
7 7 (3.48%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.99%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.49%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.49%) Back Office
10 4 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.99%) Wholesale Banking
11 3 (1.49%) German Language
11 3 (1.49%) Law
11 3 (1.49%) Marketing
11 3 (1.49%) Retail
12 2 (1.00%) Electronics
12 2 (1.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 46 (22.89%) Analyst
2 30 (14.93%) Tester
3 23 (11.44%) Senior
3 23 (11.44%) Test Analyst
4 22 (10.95%) Test Manager
5 18 (8.96%) Test Engineer
6 17 (8.46%) Lead
7 15 (7.46%) Developer
8 14 (6.97%) Test Leader
9 13 (6.47%) Business Analyst
10 11 (5.47%) Automation Tester
11 10 (4.98%) QA Engineer
11 10 (4.98%) Systems Engineer
12 8 (3.98%) Functional Analyst
13 7 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (3.48%) Senior Test Analyst
14 6 (2.99%) Senior Developer
14 6 (2.99%) Senior Test Engineer
15 5 (2.49%) Principal Systems Engineer
15 5 (2.49%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.47%) Node.js
1 11 (5.47%) REST
2 10 (4.98%) ARM Templates
2 10 (4.98%) Azure Blueprints
3 8 (3.98%) SOAP
4 7 (3.48%) .NET
5 6 (2.99%) Gherkin
5 6 (2.99%) Jest
6 5 (2.49%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.49%) JSON
6 5 (2.49%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (2.49%) React
6 5 (2.49%) Redux
6 5 (2.49%) Web Services
6 5 (2.49%) XML
7 4 (1.99%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.99%) ADO
7 4 (1.99%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.99%) Next.js
8 3 (1.49%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.45%) Management Information System
2 11 (5.47%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.48%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.48%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.49%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.49%) Online Banking
6 3 (1.49%) Wiki
7 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.00%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.00%) PKI
7 2 (1.00%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) Blog
8 1 (0.50%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.50%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.50%) DTCC
8 1 (0.50%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.50%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.97%) Unix
2 9 (4.48%) Linux
3 4 (1.99%) Android
4 3 (1.49%) Windows
5 2 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.50%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.50%) CentOS
6 1 (0.50%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (46.77%) Test Automation
2 82 (40.80%) Agile
3 59 (29.35%) Non-Functional Testing
4 50 (24.88%) Test Strategy
5 46 (22.89%) DevOps
6 41 (20.40%) Performance Testing
7 34 (16.92%) Software Testing
8 31 (15.42%) Scenario Testing
9 30 (14.93%) User Acceptance Testing
10 26 (12.94%) Defect Management
10 26 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (12.94%) Project Management
10 26 (12.94%) Test Scripting
11 25 (12.44%) CI/CD
11 25 (12.44%) End-to-End Testing
12 24 (11.94%) Integration Testing
12 24 (11.94%) Regression Testing
13 23 (11.44%) Migration
14 22 (10.95%) Mentoring
14 22 (10.95%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.95%) SQL
2 20 (9.95%) Java
3 17 (8.46%) Python
4 16 (7.96%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.47%) C#
6 9 (4.48%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.99%) MATLAB
8 5 (2.49%) C
9 3 (1.49%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.49%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.00%) C++
10 2 (1.00%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.00%) ProC
11 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.50%) R
11 1 (0.50%) Ruby
11 1 (0.50%) VBA
11 1 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (18.41%) Security Cleared
2 34 (16.92%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.44%) Degree
4 21 (10.45%) ISTQB
5 10 (4.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.48%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.99%) ISEB
8 5 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (1.00%) HNC
10 2 (1.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.50%) CCNA
11 1 (0.50%) CCNP
11 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.50%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (25.87%) QA
2 10 (4.98%) NCSC
3 8 (3.98%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.99%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.49%) AUTOSAR
5 5 (2.49%) ISO 26262
5 5 (2.49%) MISRA
5 5 (2.49%) MISRA C
6 2 (1.00%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.50%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (7.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (7.46%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.47%) Terraform
3 10 (4.98%) Ansible
4 2 (1.00%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.50%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 36 (17.91%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.97%) Oracle
3 6 (2.99%) IBM
3 6 (2.99%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.99%) CA Agile Central
4 4 (1.99%) SAP
4 4 (1.99%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.49%) Google
5 3 (1.49%) HP
5 3 (1.49%) iManage
5 3 (1.49%) Intapp
5 3 (1.49%) Microgen
5 3 (1.49%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.00%) Databricks
6 2 (1.00%) VMware
7 1 (0.50%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.50%) Informatica
7 1 (0.50%) Pegasus
7 1 (0.50%) Salesforce