Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Functional Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Functional Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 65 66
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +43
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 6 3 29
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.71% 0.37% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.43% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 18
10th Percentile £437 £473 £326
25th Percentile £489 £490 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £517 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.17% +0.83% +28.19%
75th Percentile £588 - £523
90th Percentile £610 - £541
Yorkshire median daily rate £470 £502 £509
% change year-on-year -6.42% -1.23% +27.13%

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 733 692 1,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.26% 85.54% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 438 798
10th Percentile £285 £350 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 19
10th Percentile £18.87 £14.06 £12.94
25th Percentile - £17.13 £16.71
Median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +44.74% -9.52%
75th Percentile £66.88 £36.25 £23.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £42.25 £30.02
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.04 £19.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +31.78% -10.84% +12.16%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Functional Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Functional Testing job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Functional Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in West Yorkshire

Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Functional Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Functional Testing

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 14 October 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 -10 6 £544 +5.17% 2
Functional Testing
Yorkshire

Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Gradle
1 1 (16.67%) JMeter
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Android Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Contracts Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Lead
1 1 (16.67%) Lead Test Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Tester
1 1 (16.67%) Performance Tester
1 1 (16.67%) QA Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) QA Test Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Quality Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Senior
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Service Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Service Transition Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Tester
1 1 (16.67%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ADO
1 1 (16.67%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (16.67%) Dagger
1 1 (16.67%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (16.67%) pytest
1 1 (16.67%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) CMDB
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Android Development
4 1 (16.67%) Community of Practice
4 1 (16.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (16.67%) Functional Programming
4 1 (16.67%) Line Management
4 1 (16.67%) Service Design
4 1 (16.67%) SOLID
4 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow