Functional Testing Contracts in London

Functional Testing
England > London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 300 331
Rank change year-on-year -7 +31 +29
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 86 201 286
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.49% 0.79% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.86% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 153 197
10th Percentile £388 £413 £319
25th Percentile £431 £525 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £628 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +32.11% -
75th Percentile £631 £700 £588
90th Percentile £723 £810 £693
England median daily rate £500 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +0.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £27.88
25th Percentile - - £32.19
Median hourly rate - £53.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year - +28.48% -
75th Percentile - - £52.19
90th Percentile - - £57.63
England median hourly rate £57.50 £53.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +8.49% +17.78% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,473 23,264 35,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 90.93% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,093 16,856 26,215
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 265 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +9.86% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in London

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in London

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in London

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in London

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +16 8 £518 -20.38%
West London +25 3 - - 1
East London - 1 £435 -
Functional Testing
England

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (10.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.65%) Appian
3 3 (3.49%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.16%) Confluence
4 1 (1.16%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.16%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.33%) Trello
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.16%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.16%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (1.16%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.16%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.16%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.44%) Azure
2 10 (11.63%) AWS
3 7 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.81%) Tricentis Tosca
5 4 (4.65%) Serverless
6 3 (3.49%) Figma
7 2 (2.33%) Apigee
7 2 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.33%) GCP
7 2 (2.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.16%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.16%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.16%) OCI
8 1 (1.16%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.16%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) Internet
2 2 (2.33%) HTTP
3 1 (1.16%) DNS
3 1 (1.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.49%) NoSQL
1 3 (3.49%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.16%) Big Data
2 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.16%) DB2
2 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.16%) Power BI
2 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (19.77%) JIRA
1 17 (19.77%) Selenium
2 12 (13.95%) LoadRunner
3 9 (10.47%) Cucumber
4 6 (6.98%) Cypress.io
4 6 (6.98%) Postman
5 5 (5.81%) WebDriver
6 4 (4.65%) Appium
6 4 (4.65%) JMeter
6 4 (4.65%) JUnit
6 4 (4.65%) NeoLoad
6 4 (4.65%) SpecFlow
6 4 (4.65%) Visual Studio
7 3 (3.49%) Jenkins
7 3 (3.49%) Rational Performance Tester
7 3 (3.49%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (2.33%) Git
8 2 (2.33%) Maven
8 2 (2.33%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.33%) TestNG
General
1 38 (44.19%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.60%) Finance
3 11 (12.79%) Banking
4 7 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.14%) Legal
5 6 (6.98%) Back Office
5 6 (6.98%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.65%) Law
6 4 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.65%) Wholesale Banking
7 3 (3.49%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.33%) Marketing
9 1 (1.16%) Danish Language
9 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Retail
9 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (27.91%) Analyst
2 13 (15.12%) Lead
2 13 (15.12%) Tester
3 12 (13.95%) Test Analyst
4 11 (12.79%) Developer
4 11 (12.79%) Senior
4 11 (12.79%) Test Leader
5 8 (9.30%) Business Analyst
6 6 (6.98%) Automation Tester
6 6 (6.98%) Performance Test Leader
7 5 (5.81%) QA Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (5.81%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.81%) Senior Test Analyst
7 5 (5.81%) Test Manager
8 4 (4.65%) Appian Developer
8 4 (4.65%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Architect
9 3 (3.49%) React Developer
9 3 (3.49%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.14%) Node.js
2 6 (6.98%) GraphQL
3 5 (5.81%) AngularJS
3 5 (5.81%) Gherkin
3 5 (5.81%) React
3 5 (5.81%) REST
4 4 (4.65%) ADO
4 4 (4.65%) Next.js
4 4 (4.65%) Redux
5 3 (3.49%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (3.49%) Jest
5 3 (3.49%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (3.49%) pytest
5 3 (3.49%) SOAP
6 2 (2.33%) JSON
6 2 (2.33%) OAuth
6 2 (2.33%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.33%) OpenID
6 2 (2.33%) Swagger
6 2 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.33%) FMCG
3 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.33%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.33%) Wiki
4 1 (1.16%) Blog
4 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.16%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.16%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.16%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.16%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.16%) PKI
4 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.16%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.14%) Unix
2 4 (4.65%) Linux
3 3 (3.49%) Android
3 3 (3.49%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.16%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (1.16%) CentOS
4 1 (1.16%) Debian
4 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (48.84%) Test Automation
2 36 (41.86%) Agile
3 28 (32.56%) Performance Testing
4 21 (24.42%) Non-Functional Testing
4 21 (24.42%) Test Strategy
5 20 (23.26%) DevOps
6 18 (20.93%) User Acceptance Testing
7 16 (18.60%) Defect Management
8 15 (17.44%) CI/CD
8 15 (17.44%) Software Testing
9 14 (16.28%) End-to-End Testing
9 14 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (16.28%) Regression Testing
10 13 (15.12%) BDD
10 13 (15.12%) Scenario Testing
11 12 (13.95%) Test Scripting
12 11 (12.79%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (12.79%) Test Planning
12 11 (12.79%) Waterfall
13 10 (11.63%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.60%) Java
2 9 (10.47%) SQL
3 8 (9.30%) C#
3 8 (9.30%) JavaScript
3 8 (9.30%) Python
3 8 (9.30%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.16%) C++
4 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.16%) ProC
4 1 (1.16%) R
4 1 (1.16%) Ruby
4 1 (1.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (15.12%) Degree
2 8 (9.30%) SC Cleared
2 8 (9.30%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.49%) ISEB
5 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (27.91%) QA
2 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.33%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (3.49%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.49%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.16%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.30%) IBM
3 5 (5.81%) CA Agile Central
3 5 (5.81%) Oracle
4 4 (4.65%) HP
4 4 (4.65%) iManage
4 4 (4.65%) Intapp
4 4 (4.65%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.65%) TIBCO
5 2 (2.33%) Google
5 2 (2.33%) OneTrust
5 2 (2.33%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.33%) SAP
5 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.33%) VMware
6 1 (1.16%) Databricks
6 1 (1.16%) Informatica
6 1 (1.16%) Pegasus