Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Functional Testing
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring Functional Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 14 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 0.72% 2.90% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 3.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £700 £624 £400
% change year-on-year +12.27% +55.88% -30.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 109 59 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 78.42% 85.51% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 35 53
10th Percentile £380 £220 £200
25th Percentile £525 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £700 £613 £650
90th Percentile £738 £684 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 8
10th Percentile £14.87 £17.25 £16.35
25th Percentile £16.77 £20.30 £16.54
Median hourly rate £18.23 £21.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -15.59% +21.84% +0.11%
75th Percentile £19.31 £24.18 £33.81
90th Percentile £20.57 £30.67 £77.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £21.80 £24.60
% change year-on-year -8.24% -11.40% +38.98%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Functional Testing job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Malvern - 1 £725 -
Functional Testing
West Midlands

Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft