Functional Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Functional Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 329 294
Rank change year-on-year +69 -35 +36
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 85 125 366
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.58% 0.51% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.57% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 78 247
10th Percentile £364 £355 £315
25th Percentile £413 £400 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% +3.89% -
75th Percentile £614 £538 £548
90th Percentile £650 £697 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £20.50 - £26.75
75th Percentile £21.75 - £37.55
90th Percentile - - £42.14
UK median hourly rate £57.50 - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - -11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Functional Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Functional Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Functional Testing.

Functional Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Functional Testing over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Functional Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Functional Testing.

Functional Testing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (3.53%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.18%) Appian
2 1 (1.18%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.18%) SharePoint 2013
2 1 (1.18%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.18%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.35%) Trello
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.53%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (3.53%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (3.53%) Oracle FAH
2 3 (3.53%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (3.53%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (3.53%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (3.53%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.18%) SAP PM
3 1 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (23.53%) Azure
2 19 (22.35%) AWS
2 19 (22.35%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (12.94%) GitHub
3 11 (12.94%) GitHub Actions
3 11 (12.94%) IaaS
3 11 (12.94%) PaaS
3 11 (12.94%) SaaS
4 6 (7.06%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (4.71%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.53%) Apigee
6 3 (3.53%) GCP
6 3 (3.53%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.35%) Serverless
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.18%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.53%) HTTP
1 3 (3.53%) PuTTY
2 2 (2.35%) Internet
3 1 (1.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.06%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.35%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 13 (15.29%) JIRA
2 10 (11.76%) SonarQube
3 9 (10.59%) Selenium
4 8 (9.41%) Cypress.io
5 6 (7.06%) Jenkins
6 4 (4.71%) Git
6 4 (4.71%) JUnit
6 4 (4.71%) Postman
7 3 (3.53%) Toad
8 2 (2.35%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.35%) GitLab
8 2 (2.35%) TestNG
9 1 (1.18%) git-flow
9 1 (1.18%) JIRA Agile
9 1 (1.18%) Newman
9 1 (1.18%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.18%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.18%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.18%) TestRail
9 1 (1.18%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 21 (24.71%) Finance
3 6 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.88%) Banking
4 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.71%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.53%) Marketing
6 3 (3.53%) Retail
7 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Automotive
8 1 (1.18%) Electronics
8 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.18%) German Language
8 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 26 (30.59%) Analyst
2 12 (14.12%) Senior
2 12 (14.12%) Test Analyst
3 10 (11.76%) Test Engineer
4 9 (10.59%) Business Analyst
4 9 (10.59%) Test Manager
5 8 (9.41%) Tester
6 7 (8.24%) Developer
7 5 (5.88%) Consultant
7 5 (5.88%) Functional Analyst
7 5 (5.88%) QA Analyst
7 5 (5.88%) Senior Test Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Functional Test Analyst
8 4 (4.71%) QA Test Analyst
9 3 (3.53%) CRM Analyst
9 3 (3.53%) CRM Business Analyst
9 3 (3.53%) Functional Consultant
9 3 (3.53%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.53%) Senior Test Analyst
9 3 (3.53%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.76%) ARM Templates
1 10 (11.76%) Azure Blueprints
2 5 (5.88%) Node.js
2 5 (5.88%) REST
2 5 (5.88%) SOAP
3 4 (4.71%) JSON
4 3 (3.53%) OAuth
4 3 (3.53%) OAuth2
4 3 (3.53%) OpenAPI
4 3 (3.53%) OpenID
4 3 (3.53%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (3.53%) Swagger
4 3 (3.53%) YAML
5 2 (2.35%) .NET
5 2 (2.35%) React
5 2 (2.35%) Redux
5 2 (2.35%) Web Services
5 2 (2.35%) XML
6 1 (1.18%) CSS
6 1 (1.18%) EJB
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.12%) Management Information System
2 10 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.06%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.53%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.53%) Online Banking
5 2 (2.35%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) Wiki
6 1 (1.18%) Blog
6 1 (1.18%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.18%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.18%) DTCC
6 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.18%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.18%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.18%) PKI
6 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.59%) Unix
2 6 (7.06%) Linux
3 2 (2.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (47.06%) Test Automation
2 32 (37.65%) Agile
3 30 (35.29%) Non-Functional Testing
4 22 (25.88%) DevOps
5 20 (23.53%) Test Strategy
6 16 (18.82%) Test Management
7 15 (17.65%) Mentoring
7 15 (17.65%) Test Scripting
8 14 (16.47%) Integration Testing
8 14 (16.47%) Scenario Testing
9 13 (15.29%) Performance Testing
9 13 (15.29%) Project Management
10 12 (14.12%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (14.12%) Migration
10 12 (14.12%) Software Engineering
10 12 (14.12%) Software Testing
11 11 (12.94%) CI/CD
11 11 (12.94%) Continuous Delivery
11 11 (12.94%) ERP
11 11 (12.94%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.47%) SQL
2 13 (15.29%) JavaScript
3 11 (12.94%) Python
4 9 (10.59%) Java
5 3 (3.53%) C#
5 3 (3.53%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.35%) C++
6 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.35%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.18%) R
7 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.18%) VBA
7 1 (1.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 22 (25.88%) SC Cleared
3 14 (16.47%) ISTQB
4 10 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (5.88%) Degree
5 5 (5.88%) ISEB
6 3 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.18%) HNC
8 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.18%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (23.53%) QA
2 10 (11.76%) NCSC
3 3 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 13 (15.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (15.29%) Kubernetes
2 10 (11.76%) Ansible
2 10 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (1.18%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 20 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.41%) Oracle
3 3 (3.53%) Google
3 3 (3.53%) Microgen
3 3 (3.53%) SAP
4 2 (2.35%) VMware
5 1 (1.18%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.18%) Databricks
5 1 (1.18%) HP
5 1 (1.18%) IBM
5 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.18%) TIBCO