Functional Testing Contracts in Scotland

Functional Testing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 150 158
Rank change year-on-year +36 +8 -12
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 6 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.28% 0.41% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.44% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 14
10th Percentile £333 £404 £297
25th Percentile £335 £413 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.88% - +16.44%
75th Percentile £559 £528 £450
90th Percentile £603 £579 £470
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,870 2,508 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.00% 92.44% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,773 2,261
10th Percentile £220 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £471
Median % change year-on-year - +0.95% +10.71%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in Scotland

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in Scotland

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in Scotland

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in Scotland

Functional Testing
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Edinburgh +24 3 £550 +29.41% 1
Glasgow +9 3 £335 -36.19%
Functional Testing
UK

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
1 1 (16.67%) PaaS
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Gradle
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
2 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Business Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Banking Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Android Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Android Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Functional Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Functional Test Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (33.33%) Dagger
1 2 (33.33%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (33.33%) Retrofit
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (50.00%) Use Case
3 2 (33.33%) Android Development
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Functional Programming
3 2 (33.33%) MVVM
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) SOLID
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Mobile Development
4 1 (16.67%) SOA
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Kotlin
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) VBA
3 1 (16.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ISEB
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft