Functional Tester Contracts in the Thames Valley

Functional Tester
South East > Thames Valley

The median Functional Tester daily rate in the Thames Valley is £225, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 151 178
Rank change year-on-year +21 +27 -
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Tester 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.11% 0.034% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.036% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £213 £363 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £375 £355
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +5.63% -
75th Percentile £251 £388 £358
90th Percentile £260 - -
South East median daily rate £225 £375 £361
% change year-on-year -40.00% +3.81% -6.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,456 2,784 3,589
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.50% 96.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,341 1,886 2,457
10th Percentile £213 £300 £225
25th Percentile £400 £408 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £608 £605 £588
90th Percentile £688 £689 £650
South East median daily rate £507 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.30% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 87 96
10th Percentile £15.81 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.50 £12.94
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +176.57% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £23.92
90th Percentile £87.46 £76.20 £58.63
South East median hourly rate £48.70 £50.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -2.60% +138.10% -16.00%

Functional Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured Functional Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Tester in the Thames Valley

Functional Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Functional Tester in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Functional Tester in the Thames Valley

Functional Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Functional Tester in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Functional Tester in the Thames Valley

Functional Tester
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Tester within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 30 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
Oxfordshire - 3 £225 - 1
Functional Tester
South East

Functional Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 30 June 2024, Functional Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring Functional Tester in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Back Office
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) ADO
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) MariaDB
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills

Functional Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MariaDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 1 (33.33%) Back Office
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker