Functional Testing Contracts in England

Functional Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 368 351
Rank change year-on-year -19 -17 +17
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 165 295 530
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.62% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.69% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 225 368
10th Percentile £350 £376 £313
25th Percentile £403 £463 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.12%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £548
90th Percentile £650 £738 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £563 £450
% change year-on-year -11.11% +25.00% +1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 13
10th Percentile £19.25 - £18.80
25th Percentile £39.55 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £53.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% +17.78% -6.25%
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile £60.79 - £54.24
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £53.00 £43.31
% change year-on-year +8.49% +22.37% -15.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,458 42,946 64,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.64% 89.97% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,501 30,170 46,065
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,315 1,518 1,726
10th Percentile £12.83 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.45%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in England

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in England

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in England

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in England

Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Functional Testing in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Functional Testing in England

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 3 June 2024. 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
London -11 85 £511 -18.53% 17
South East +15 26 £494 +16.18% 15
Midlands +38 23 £400 -11.11% 12
North of England +10 16 £448 -10.50% 12
West Midlands +23 14 £438 -2.78% 6
East Midlands +17 9 £381 -17.57% 6
North West +7 8 £403 -4.17% 9
South West +9 5 £475 -13.64% 9
Yorkshire 0 5 £500 -2.44% 2
North East +14 4 £410 - 1
South Coast - 3 £500 -
East of England +4 2 - - 12
Functional Testing
UK

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.03%) Confluence
3 4 (2.42%) Appian
4 3 (1.82%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.64%) Simulink
2 5 (3.03%) Stateflow
2 5 (3.03%) TargetLink
3 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.21%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.21%) Trello
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.64%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.03%) Oracle Assets
2 5 (3.03%) Oracle Financials
2 5 (3.03%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (3.03%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (3.03%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.82%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.82%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (1.21%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (1.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.61%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (21.21%) Azure
2 23 (13.94%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (8.48%) AWS
4 8 (4.85%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (4.24%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.64%) PowerApps
6 6 (3.64%) Tricentis Tosca
7 5 (3.03%) Serverless
8 4 (2.42%) Figma
9 3 (1.82%) Apigee
9 3 (1.82%) GCP
10 2 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.21%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.61%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.61%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.61%) GitHub
11 1 (0.61%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.64%) Internet
2 4 (2.42%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.82%) HTTP
3 3 (1.82%) PuTTY
4 2 (1.21%) tcpdump
4 2 (1.21%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.61%) DNS
5 1 (0.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.42%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.82%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.61%) Big Data
3 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.61%) DB2
3 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.61%) Power BI
3 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (16.97%) JIRA
1 28 (16.97%) Selenium
2 14 (8.48%) Cucumber
3 13 (7.88%) LoadRunner
4 11 (6.67%) JMeter
5 10 (6.06%) Cypress.io
6 9 (5.45%) Postman
7 7 (4.24%) Git
7 7 (4.24%) JUnit
7 7 (4.24%) Maven
8 6 (3.64%) Jenkins
9 5 (3.03%) Bitbucket
9 5 (3.03%) Subversion
9 5 (3.03%) WebDriver
10 4 (2.42%) Appium
10 4 (2.42%) NeoLoad
10 4 (2.42%) SoapUI
10 4 (2.42%) SpecFlow
10 4 (2.42%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (2.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (32.12%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.97%) Finance
3 16 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.48%) Banking
5 9 (5.45%) Automotive
6 7 (4.24%) Legal
7 6 (3.64%) Back Office
7 6 (3.64%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.03%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.42%) Law
9 4 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.42%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.42%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.21%) German Language
10 2 (1.21%) Marketing
10 2 (1.21%) Retail
10 2 (1.21%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.61%) Danish Language
11 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (28.48%) Analyst
2 31 (18.79%) Test Analyst
3 28 (16.97%) Tester
4 24 (14.55%) Senior
5 15 (9.09%) Lead
6 14 (8.48%) Automation Tester
6 14 (8.48%) Test Engineer
7 13 (7.88%) Developer
7 13 (7.88%) Senior Analyst
7 13 (7.88%) Senior Test Analyst
8 12 (7.27%) Test Leader
8 12 (7.27%) Test Manager
9 11 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
10 9 (5.45%) Business Analyst
11 7 (4.24%) QA Engineer
12 6 (3.64%) Performance Test Leader
12 6 (3.64%) Senior Developer
13 5 (3.03%) Consultant
13 5 (3.03%) Principal Engineer
13 5 (3.03%) Principal Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.67%) Gherkin
2 9 (5.45%) Node.js
3 8 (4.85%) REST
4 7 (4.24%) GraphQL
4 7 (4.24%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (3.64%) AngularJS
5 6 (3.64%) SOAP
6 5 (3.03%) React
6 5 (3.03%) Web Services
7 4 (2.42%) ADO
7 4 (2.42%) JSON
7 4 (2.42%) Next.js
7 4 (2.42%) Redux
8 3 (1.82%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.82%) Jest
8 3 (1.82%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.82%) OpenAPI
8 3 (1.82%) OpenID
8 3 (1.82%) pytest
8 3 (1.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.45%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.24%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (2.42%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.82%) Online Banking
6 2 (1.21%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.21%) FMCG
6 2 (1.21%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.21%) Wiki
7 1 (0.61%) Blog
7 1 (0.61%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.61%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.61%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.61%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.09%) Unix
2 11 (6.67%) Linux
3 3 (1.82%) Android
3 3 (1.82%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.21%) Windows
5 1 (0.61%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.61%) CentOS
5 1 (0.61%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (46.06%) Agile
1 76 (46.06%) Test Automation
2 43 (26.06%) Non-Functional Testing
3 39 (23.64%) Performance Testing
4 38 (23.03%) DevOps
5 37 (22.42%) Test Strategy
6 30 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
7 28 (16.97%) Software Testing
8 26 (15.76%) End-to-End Testing
8 26 (15.76%) Scenario Testing
9 25 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (14.55%) Defect Management
11 20 (12.12%) Regression Testing
11 20 (12.12%) Test Scripting
12 19 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (10.91%) CI/CD
13 18 (10.91%) Integration Testing
13 18 (10.91%) Migration
14 17 (10.30%) Test Planning
14 17 (10.30%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 25 (15.15%) Java
2 18 (10.91%) JavaScript
3 17 (10.30%) Python
3 17 (10.30%) SQL
4 11 (6.67%) C#
5 8 (4.85%) TypeScript
6 6 (3.64%) MATLAB
7 5 (3.03%) C
8 4 (2.42%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.82%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.21%) ProC
11 1 (0.61%) C++
11 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.61%) R
11 1 (0.61%) Ruby
11 1 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 26 (15.76%) Degree
2 20 (12.12%) SC Cleared
2 20 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 19 (11.52%) ISTQB
4 10 (6.06%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.42%) HNC
5 4 (2.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.82%) ISEB
7 2 (1.21%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.61%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (27.27%) QA
2 5 (3.03%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.03%) ISO 26262
2 5 (3.03%) MISRA
2 5 (3.03%) MISRA C
3 3 (1.82%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (3.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.61%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.27%) Oracle
3 8 (4.85%) IBM
4 6 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.03%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (2.42%) HP
6 4 (2.42%) iManage
6 4 (2.42%) Intapp
6 4 (2.42%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.42%) TIBCO
7 3 (1.82%) Google
7 3 (1.82%) Microgen
7 3 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.82%) SAP
8 2 (1.21%) OneTrust
8 2 (1.21%) VMware
9 1 (0.61%) Databricks
9 1 (0.61%) Informatica
9 1 (0.61%) Pegasus