Functional Testing Contracts in the Thames Valley

Functional Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Functional Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Functional Testing over the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 135 98
Rank change year-on-year +17 -37 +25
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 16 12 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.60% 0.41% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.45% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 75
10th Percentile £217 £120 £328
25th Percentile £373 £335 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £400 £360
Median % change year-on-year +23.44% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £591 £469 £450
90th Percentile £645 £550 £470
South East median daily rate £488 £475 £419
% change year-on-year +2.63% +13.37% +4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.75
Median hourly rate - - £13.50
75th Percentile - - £14.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £17.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Functional Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,272 2,648 3,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.13% 90.56% 90.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,230 1,790 2,270
10th Percentile £234 £315 £262
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +3.54% +10.00%
75th Percentile £608 £615 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £513 £513 £500
% change year-on-year - +2.50% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 76 90
10th Percentile £14.50 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.25 £12.31
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +194.12% -19.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £24.25
90th Percentile £85.65 £76.33 £62.76
South East median hourly rate £47.64 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -4.72% +122.22% -18.18%

Functional Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Functional Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Functional Testing in the Thames Valley

Functional Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Testing in the Thames Valley

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Testing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Testing in the Thames Valley

Functional Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Testing in the Thames Valley

Functional Testing
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 Testing within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 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 +5 8 £475 +39.71% 2
Berkshire 0 8 £500 +1.27% 1
Functional Testing
South East

Functional Testing
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 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
3 3 (18.75%) PowerApps
4 2 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (6.25%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) tcpdump
1 2 (12.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) MariaDB
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (25.00%) Selenium
2 3 (18.75%) JMeter
2 3 (18.75%) Maven
3 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
3 1 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) Subversion
General
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Back Office
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Analyst
1 4 (25.00%) Senior
1 4 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 4 (25.00%) Tester
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) Functional Tester
2 3 (18.75%) Junior
2 3 (18.75%) Junior Tester
2 3 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Performance Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Performance Test Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Performance Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Test Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Test Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Gherkin
2 1 (6.25%) ADO
2 1 (6.25%) JSON
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) RESTful
2 1 (6.25%) Web Services
2 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Non-Functional Testing
3 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
4 4 (25.00%) Scrum
5 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven
5 3 (18.75%) Project Management
5 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (18.75%) Test Management
5 3 (18.75%) Traceability Matrix
5 3 (18.75%) Work Breakdown Structure
6 2 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (12.50%) Kanban
6 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (6.25%) BDD
7 1 (6.25%) Load Testing
7 1 (6.25%) Performance Testing
7 1 (6.25%) Security Testing
7 1 (6.25%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Java
1 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
1 3 (18.75%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft