Senior Tester Contracts in Berkshire

Senior Tester
South East > Berkshire

The median Senior Tester daily rate in Berkshire is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 121 136
Rank change year-on-year -5 +15 -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Tester 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.15% 0.054% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.057% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £600
75th Percentile £438 - £625
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £425 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +4.95% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,917 1,759 2,317
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 94.22% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,008 1,128 1,486
10th Percentile £213 £325 £206
25th Percentile £381 £413 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £486
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% +8.14% +6.70%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 52 46
10th Percentile £18.82 £17.52 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £21.49 £17.13
Median hourly rate £58.30 £55.94 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +165.76% -2.09%
75th Percentile £70.39 £71.25 £48.50
90th Percentile £85.78 £80.25 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +5.56% +114.29% -16.00%

Senior Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured Senior Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Tester in Berkshire

Senior Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Tester in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Senior Tester in Berkshire

Senior Tester
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Tester within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 16 April 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
Reading -3 2 £425 -
Bracknell - 1 - -
Senior Tester
South East

Senior Tester Skill Set
Top 12 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Senior 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 Berkshire region featuring Senior Tester in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) JMeter
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working

Senior Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JMeter
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle