Software Testing Contracts in Berkshire

Software Testing
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 93 115
Rank change year-on-year +30 +22 -38
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 56 19 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.84% 1.05% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 1.15% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 13 15
10th Percentile - £370 £376
25th Percentile £205 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £453
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +3.87% +9.04%
75th Percentile £688 £573 £478
90th Percentile - £588 £511
South East median daily rate £425 £425 £451
% change year-on-year - -5.82% +6.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £10.24 - -
Median hourly rate £10.30 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.77% - -
75th Percentile £10.36 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £60.50 £45.00 £36.02
% change year-on-year +34.44% +24.92% -31.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Software 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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,756 1,652 2,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.91% 91.07% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 1,062 1,384
10th Percentile £213 £350 £268
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £676 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 48 43
10th Percentile £20.17 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.75 £25.72 £17.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%
75th Percentile £72.18 £73.69 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.41 £79.51 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Berkshire

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Berkshire

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in Berkshire

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Berkshire

Software Testing
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 Software Testing within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 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 +33 48 £425 -2.86% 12
Bracknell -8 4 - -
Wokingham +2 2 £623 +8.26%
Newbury - 1 £200 - 1
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (1.79%) Apache
Applications
1 18 (32.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.36%) AWS
2 6 (10.71%) Azure
3 4 (7.14%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 4 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (3.57%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (32.14%) LAN
2 1 (1.79%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (30.36%) Oracle Database
1 17 (30.36%) Oracle Database 11g
1 17 (30.36%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Selenium
General
1 21 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 18 (32.14%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.71%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.79%) Games
4 1 (1.79%) Marketing
4 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (33.93%) Hardware Engineer
2 17 (30.36%) Developer
3 15 (26.79%) PostgreSQL Developer
4 5 (8.93%) Break Fix Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) Designer
4 5 (8.93%) Lead
4 5 (8.93%) Lead Designer
4 5 (8.93%) Test Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Tester
6 3 (5.36%) Senior
7 2 (3.57%) Database Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 2 (3.57%) Test Specialist
8 1 (1.79%) Defect Manager
8 1 (1.79%) Hardware Test Engineer
8 1 (1.79%) QA Analyst
8 1 (1.79%) Telecoms Analyst
8 1 (1.79%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) HTML
2 6 (10.71%) AngularJS
2 6 (10.71%) CSS
2 6 (10.71%) Node.js
3 1 (1.79%) jQuery
3 1 (1.79%) React
3 1 (1.79%) Web Services
3 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (32.14%) Driving Licence
2 1 (1.79%) Life Science
2 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (33.93%) Windows
2 18 (32.14%) Windows 10
2 18 (32.14%) Windows 7
3 8 (14.29%) Unix
4 4 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (44.64%) DevOps
2 22 (39.29%) Unit Testing
3 20 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (33.93%) Software Engineering
5 18 (32.14%) Customer Requirements
5 18 (32.14%) Customer Service
5 18 (32.14%) ITIL
5 18 (32.14%) Service Delivery
5 18 (32.14%) Software Deployment
6 17 (30.36%) Architectural Design
6 17 (30.36%) Clean Code
6 17 (30.36%) Data Migration
6 17 (30.36%) Migration
6 17 (30.36%) Performance Tuning
6 17 (30.36%) Secure Coding
7 9 (16.07%) Test Automation
8 7 (12.50%) Agile
9 5 (8.93%) Integration Testing
9 5 (8.93%) Security Testing
9 5 (8.93%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (44.64%) SQL
2 17 (30.36%) PL/SQL
3 6 (10.71%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.93%) PHP
5 2 (3.57%) Java
5 2 (3.57%) Python
6 1 (1.79%) Bash
6 1 (1.79%) C
6 1 (1.79%) C#
6 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 20 (35.71%) Degree
3 18 (32.14%) DV Cleared
4 17 (30.36%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.57%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.79%) HL7
System Software
1 18 (32.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (32.14%) SCCM
2 2 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (39.29%) Oracle
2 18 (32.14%) HP
2 18 (32.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.79%) Adobe
4 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow