Functional Testing Contracts in West Yorkshire

Functional Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 76 94
Rank change year-on-year +12 +18 +17
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 1 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.18% 0.41% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.46% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - £464 £450
25th Percentile £519 £466 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.45% -13.00% +43.75%
75th Percentile £556 £517 £738
90th Percentile - - £800
Yorkshire median daily rate £510 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.95% +0.05% +9.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 510 861 1,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 92.06% 87.59% 91.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 503 1,013
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £375 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £619
90th Percentile £638 £665 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 18
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £13.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -38.12% +12.50%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £63.75
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in West Yorkshire

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in West Yorkshire

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in West Yorkshire

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 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
Leeds -4 1 £538 +7.45%
Functional Testing
Yorkshire

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Contracts Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA