Functional Test Analyst Contracts

Functional Test Analyst
UK

The median Functional Test Analyst daily rate in the UK is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 690 851
Rank change year-on-year +117 +161 -189
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Test Analyst 6 10 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.017% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.018% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 9
10th Percentile £371 £325 -
25th Percentile £383 £334 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £388
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -9.68% +6.16%
75th Percentile £420 £426 £438
90th Percentile £431 £500 £478
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +20.00% -17.65% +16.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Functional Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Functional Test Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Test Analyst in the UK

Functional Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Test Analyst in the UK

Functional Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Test Analyst in the UK

Functional Test Analyst
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Test Analyst within the UK 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
Work from Home +121 4 £398 +16.06%
England +108 4 £398 +13.57%
UK excluding London +65 4 £420 +20.00%
London +111 2 £388 -
North of England +26 2 £408 -18.50%
North East - 2 £408 -
Scotland - 2 £425 -

Functional Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Functional Test Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Functional Test Analyst in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) ISTQB
1 5 (83.33%) Functional Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 4 (66.67%) C#
3 3 (50.00%) QA
3 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) ISEB
3 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (33.33%) IaaS
4 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
4 2 (33.33%) SaaS
4 2 (33.33%) PaaS
4 2 (33.33%) Feature Driven Development
4 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
4 2 (33.33%) BDD
4 2 (33.33%) V-Model
4 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
4 2 (33.33%) Git
4 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis

Functional Test Analyst Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) IaaS
1 2 (33.33%) PaaS
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
1 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
1 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Functional Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) ATDD
4 2 (33.33%) BDD
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Feature Driven Development
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) SOA
4 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Validation
4 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) C++
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) VBA
2 2 (33.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) ISTQB
2 3 (50.00%) ISEB
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) VMware