Functional Testing Contracts in Hampshire

Functional Testing
South East > Hampshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 93 109
Rank change year-on-year -2 +16 -23
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 6 8 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.35% 0.63% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.70% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 12
10th Percentile £271 £408 £408
25th Percentile £434 £450 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.58% +0.14%
75th Percentile £566 £544 £532
90th Percentile £588 £575 -
South East median daily rate £494 £425 £435
% change year-on-year +16.18% -2.35% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate - - £18.50
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £20.50 - £18.50
% change year-on-year - - -70.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,411 1,138 1,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 81.61% 89.40% 89.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 719 1,085
10th Percentile £388 £240 £310
25th Percentile £463 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.29% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £615 £613
90th Percentile £738 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 97 144
10th Percentile £13.05 £15.92 £13.29
25th Percentile £26.00 £20.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £55.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% +124.49% -31.94%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.63 £48.86
90th Percentile £78.00 £75.00 £64.48
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in Hampshire

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in Hampshire

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in Hampshire

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in Hampshire

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Havant - 4 £538 - 1
Portsmouth +1 1 £130 -74.00% 1
Eastleigh - 1 £500 -
Functional Testing
South East

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (33.33%) PowerApps
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) JMeter
3 1 (16.67%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (16.67%) TestNG
3 1 (16.67%) Travis CI
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Environment Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Test Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Performance Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 2 (33.33%) Kanban
3 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Test Management
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) SDET
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft