Functional Testing Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Functional Testing
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in 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 114 100 86
Rank change year-on-year -14 -14 +49
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 13 4 30
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.77% 0.27% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.32% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 19
10th Percentile £313 £468 £330
25th Percentile £317 £477 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £502 £509
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% -1.23% +27.13%
75th Percentile £600 £517 £521
90th Percentile £675 - £540
England median daily rate £451 £489 £504
% change year-on-year -7.72% -2.98% +11.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,519 1,239 1,796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 90.09% 84.63% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 724 1,157
10th Percentile £246 £300 £306
25th Percentile £375 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £652 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 39 30
10th Percentile £17.48 - £15.11
25th Percentile £18.87 £12.55 £18.06
Median hourly rate £25.04 £19.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +31.78% -10.84% +12.16%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £26.02
90th Percentile £78.38 £50.25 £44.05
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Functional Testing job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in Yorkshire

Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire -8 6 £544 +5.17% 3
South Yorkshire -21 6 £398 -18.46% 1
Functional Testing
England

Functional Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
1 4 (30.77%) JUnit
1 4 (30.77%) Selenium
2 3 (23.08%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) TestNG
3 2 (15.38%) Postman
3 2 (15.38%) SoapUI
4 1 (7.69%) Appium
4 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.69%) Gradle
4 1 (7.69%) JMeter
General
1 3 (23.08%) Banking
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Wholesale Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) QA Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Test Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Finance Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Financial Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Financial Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Android Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Credit Risk Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Non-Functional Tester
4 1 (7.69%) QA Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) QA Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Quality Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Risk Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Service Transition Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Hibernate
1 3 (23.08%) RESTful
1 3 (23.08%) Spring
2 2 (15.38%) Anaconda
3 1 (7.69%) ADO
3 1 (7.69%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (7.69%) Dagger
3 1 (7.69%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (7.69%) pytest
3 1 (7.69%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) Credit Risk
3 1 (7.69%) CMDB
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
1 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Regression Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (23.08%) OO
5 3 (23.08%) OOP
5 3 (23.08%) Process Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) Security Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
6 2 (15.38%) Kanban
6 2 (15.38%) Manual Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (15.38%) Sprint Review
6 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Java
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) ISTQB
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
3 2 (15.38%) CISM
3 2 (15.38%) CISSP
3 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) BeyondTrust
2 2 (15.38%) CyberArk
2 2 (15.38%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Thycotic
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow