Functional Testing Contracts

Functional Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 389 356
Rank change year-on-year +7 -33 -8
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 204 350 645
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.60% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.67% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 257 445
10th Percentile £353 £375 £313
25th Percentile £411 £450 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £470
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +17.02% +4.44%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £550
90th Percentile £650 £738 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £469 £425
% change year-on-year +1.33% +10.29% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 13
10th Percentile £19.25 - £18.80
25th Percentile £39.55 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £45.00
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile £60.79 - £54.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Functional Testing over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Functional Testing in the UK

Functional Testing
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England -30 160 £488 -15.22% 70
London -18 88 £505 -19.20% 17
Work from Home +77 85 £500 +5.26% 28
UK excluding London +43 81 £475 +1.33% 47
Midlands +38 21 £422 -6.33% 10
South East +10 17 £481 +13.24% 12
North of England +16 16 £448 +6.55% 10
West Midlands +25 13 £475 - 5
South West +17 9 £525 -4.55% 6
East Midlands +27 8 £400 +11.11% 5
North West +21 8 £403 -4.17% 7
Scotland +35 5 £425 - 1
Yorkshire +4 5 £500 +0.05% 2
Wales - 5 - - 1
North East +16 4 £410 -28.70% 1
East of England +13 3 £458 -8.50% 8
Isle of Man - 2 - -

Functional Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.45%) Confluence
4 4 (1.96%) Appian
5 3 (1.47%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.49%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.49%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (2.94%) Simulink
2 5 (2.45%) Stateflow
2 5 (2.45%) TargetLink
3 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.98%) Trello
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.94%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.45%) Oracle Assets
2 5 (2.45%) Oracle Financials
2 5 (2.45%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (2.45%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (2.45%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.47%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.47%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.98%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.98%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.49%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.49%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (22.55%) Azure
2 33 (16.18%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (15.69%) AWS
4 15 (7.35%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (6.86%) GitHub
6 12 (5.88%) SaaS
7 11 (5.39%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (5.39%) IaaS
7 11 (5.39%) PaaS
8 7 (3.43%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.43%) Serverless
9 6 (2.94%) Tricentis Tosca
10 5 (2.45%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.47%) Apigee
12 3 (1.47%) GCP
12 3 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (0.98%) Figma
14 1 (0.49%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.94%) Internet
2 3 (1.47%) HTTP
2 3 (1.47%) PuTTY
2 3 (1.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.49%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (0.49%) DNS
3 1 (0.49%) GGSN
3 1 (0.49%) IPsec
3 1 (0.49%) SGSN
3 1 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.94%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.45%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.47%) Power BI
3 3 (1.47%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.98%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.98%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.49%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.49%) DB2
5 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (16.18%) JIRA
2 22 (10.78%) Selenium
3 16 (7.84%) LoadRunner
4 15 (7.35%) Cucumber
5 12 (5.88%) Cypress.io
6 11 (5.39%) JMeter
7 10 (4.90%) Git
7 10 (4.90%) Jenkins
7 10 (4.90%) JUnit
7 10 (4.90%) Postman
7 10 (4.90%) SonarQube
8 8 (3.92%) WebDriver
9 6 (2.94%) Subversion
10 5 (2.45%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.45%) SoapUI
10 5 (2.45%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.96%) Appium
11 4 (1.96%) Gradle
11 4 (1.96%) NeoLoad
11 4 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 59 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.10%) Finance
3 17 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.37%) Banking
4 13 (6.37%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.41%) Legal
6 8 (3.92%) Automotive
7 7 (3.43%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.94%) Back Office
8 6 (2.94%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.94%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.45%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.96%) Law
10 4 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.96%) Wholesale Banking
11 3 (1.47%) German Language
11 3 (1.47%) Marketing
11 3 (1.47%) Retail
12 2 (0.98%) Electronics
12 2 (0.98%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 48 (23.53%) Analyst
2 31 (15.20%) Tester
3 25 (12.25%) Senior
3 25 (12.25%) Test Analyst
4 21 (10.29%) Test Manager
5 19 (9.31%) Test Engineer
6 18 (8.82%) Lead
7 15 (7.35%) Developer
7 15 (7.35%) Test Leader
8 13 (6.37%) Business Analyst
9 12 (5.88%) Automation Tester
10 11 (5.39%) Systems Engineer
11 10 (4.90%) QA Engineer
12 9 (4.41%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (4.41%) Senior Test Analyst
13 8 (3.92%) Functional Analyst
14 6 (2.94%) Performance Test Leader
14 6 (2.94%) Senior Developer
14 6 (2.94%) Senior Test Engineer
15 5 (2.45%) Test Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.39%) Node.js
1 11 (5.39%) REST
2 10 (4.90%) ARM Templates
2 10 (4.90%) Azure Blueprints
3 8 (3.92%) SOAP
4 7 (3.43%) .NET
5 6 (2.94%) Gherkin
5 6 (2.94%) Jest
5 6 (2.94%) Web Services
6 5 (2.45%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.45%) JSON
6 5 (2.45%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (2.45%) React
6 5 (2.45%) Redux
6 5 (2.45%) XML
7 4 (1.96%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.96%) ADO
7 4 (1.96%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.96%) Next.js
8 3 (1.47%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.31%) Management Information System
2 11 (5.39%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.41%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.43%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.43%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.47%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.47%) Online Banking
6 3 (1.47%) Wiki
7 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.98%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.98%) PKI
7 2 (0.98%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Blog
8 1 (0.49%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.49%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.49%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.49%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.49%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.35%) Unix
2 10 (4.90%) Linux
3 4 (1.96%) Android
4 3 (1.47%) Windows
5 2 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.49%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.49%) CentOS
6 1 (0.49%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (48.04%) Test Automation
2 84 (41.18%) Agile
3 62 (30.39%) Non-Functional Testing
4 52 (25.49%) Test Strategy
5 45 (22.06%) DevOps
6 44 (21.57%) Performance Testing
7 36 (17.65%) Software Testing
8 31 (15.20%) Scenario Testing
9 30 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (14.71%) User Acceptance Testing
10 27 (13.24%) Defect Management
10 27 (13.24%) Project Management
11 26 (12.75%) Test Scripting
12 25 (12.25%) CI/CD
12 25 (12.25%) End-to-End Testing
13 24 (11.76%) Integration Testing
13 24 (11.76%) Regression Testing
14 23 (11.27%) Mentoring
15 22 (10.78%) Migration
15 22 (10.78%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 23 (11.27%) SQL
2 20 (9.80%) Java
3 17 (8.33%) Python
4 16 (7.84%) JavaScript
5 12 (5.88%) C#
6 9 (4.41%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.94%) MATLAB
8 5 (2.45%) C
9 4 (1.96%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.47%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.98%) C++
11 2 (0.98%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.98%) ProC
12 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.49%) R
12 1 (0.49%) Ruby
12 1 (0.49%) VBA
12 1 (0.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 38 (18.63%) Security Cleared
2 35 (17.16%) SC Cleared
3 24 (11.76%) Degree
4 22 (10.78%) ISTQB
5 10 (4.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.92%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.94%) ISEB
8 5 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.47%) HNC
11 2 (0.98%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.49%) CCNA
12 1 (0.49%) CCNP
12 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.49%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (26.47%) QA
2 10 (4.90%) NCSC
3 8 (3.92%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.94%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.45%) AUTOSAR
5 5 (2.45%) ISO 26262
5 5 (2.45%) MISRA
5 5 (2.45%) MISRA C
6 2 (0.98%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.49%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (7.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.39%) Terraform
3 10 (4.90%) Ansible
4 2 (0.98%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 38 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.37%) Oracle
3 8 (3.92%) IBM
4 6 (2.94%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.45%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (2.45%) HP
6 4 (1.96%) iManage
6 4 (1.96%) Intapp
6 4 (1.96%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.96%) SAP
6 4 (1.96%) TIBCO
7 3 (1.47%) Google
7 3 (1.47%) Microgen
8 2 (0.98%) Databricks
8 2 (0.98%) VMware
9 1 (0.49%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.49%) Informatica
9 1 (0.49%) Pegasus
9 1 (0.49%) Salesforce