Test Automation Contracts in Berkshire

Automated Testing
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 55 61
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -7
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 78 61 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.05% 3.46% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.57% 3.85% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 40 68
10th Percentile £433 £363 £365
25th Percentile £519 £404 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +7.32% +14.53%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £578
90th Percentile £688 £619 £638
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +27.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Test Automation 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 1,707 1,584 2,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.63% 89.75% 89.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 876 999 1,343
10th Percentile £235 £340 £268
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £608 £629 £588
90th Percentile £675 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +0.10% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 52 37
10th Percentile £17.05 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £24.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.30 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +174.67% -
75th Percentile £71.75 £73.69 £52.50
90th Percentile £87.41 £79.19 £73.11
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.93
% change year-on-year -5.00% +128.00% -20.25%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Berkshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Berkshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Berkshire over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Berkshire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Berkshire

Test Automation
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 Test Automation within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Reading +10 66 £613 +6.52% 8
Slough +14 7 £585 +65.96%
Bracknell -3 3 - -
Wokingham +3 2 £623 +8.26% 2
Newbury -2 1 £475 +11.76% 1
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
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 9 (11.54%) Apache
2 8 (10.26%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.28%) Confluence
4 1 (1.28%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 41 (52.56%) Azure
2 16 (20.51%) AWS
3 14 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (8.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (7.69%) Azure Functions
7 6 (7.69%) Serverless
8 5 (6.41%) Entra ID
9 4 (5.13%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (5.13%) PaaS
10 3 (3.85%) Azure AKS
11 2 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (2.56%) OpenShift
12 1 (1.28%) Azure API Management
12 1 (1.28%) Azure Cognitive Search
12 1 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (1.28%) GCP
12 1 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.26%) BGP
1 8 (10.26%) Ethernet VPN
1 8 (10.26%) MPLS
1 8 (10.26%) Radio Access Network
1 8 (10.26%) VPN
2 1 (1.28%) DNS
2 1 (1.28%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.95%) NoSQL
2 9 (11.54%) MongoDB
3 8 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.28%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 44 (56.41%) Selenium
2 29 (37.18%) Cucumber
3 26 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 25 (32.05%) JIRA
4 25 (32.05%) REST Assured
5 24 (30.77%) SonarQube
6 22 (28.21%) GitLab
7 15 (19.23%) Git
8 11 (14.10%) Robot Framework
9 9 (11.54%) TestRail
10 6 (7.69%) SpecFlow
11 4 (5.13%) Postman
11 4 (5.13%) TestLink
12 3 (3.85%) JMeter
12 3 (3.85%) Maven
13 1 (1.28%) Android Studio
13 1 (1.28%) Appium
13 1 (1.28%) NUnit
13 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio
13 1 (1.28%) Xcode
General
1 35 (44.87%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (41.03%) Social Skills
3 20 (25.64%) Law
4 13 (16.67%) Police
5 3 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.28%) Marketing
6 1 (1.28%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (21.79%) Developer
1 17 (21.79%) Java Engineer
2 12 (15.38%) Senior
3 8 (10.26%) Full Stack Developer
4 7 (8.97%) Analyst
4 7 (8.97%) Network Engineer
4 7 (8.97%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 7 (8.97%) Software Engineer
4 7 (8.97%) Test Engineer
5 6 (7.69%) Ericsson Engineer
5 6 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
5 6 (7.69%) Test Manager
6 5 (6.41%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.41%) Senior Java Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Python Developer
7 4 (5.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (42.31%) REST
2 25 (32.05%) Java EE
3 14 (17.95%) ARM Templates
4 8 (10.26%) NETCONF
4 8 (10.26%) RESTCONF
4 8 (10.26%) SOAP
4 8 (10.26%) YANG
5 7 (8.97%) React
6 6 (7.69%) HTML
7 3 (3.85%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.85%) CSS
7 3 (3.85%) Gherkin
7 3 (3.85%) Node.js
7 3 (3.85%) Web Services
7 3 (3.85%) XML
8 2 (2.56%) .NET
8 2 (2.56%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.56%) YAML
9 1 (1.28%) jQuery
9 1 (1.28%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.97%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.85%) Client/Server
3 3 (3.85%) Life Science
4 2 (2.56%) NHS
5 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.97%) Linux
2 3 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.85%) Windows
2 3 (3.85%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.28%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (65.38%) DevOps
2 29 (37.18%) Continuous Integration
3 27 (34.62%) Agile
3 27 (34.62%) CI/CD
3 27 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (33.33%) Software Architecture
4 26 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 25 (32.05%) Decision-Making
5 25 (32.05%) Technical Leadership
6 23 (29.49%) Containerisation
7 17 (21.79%) Scrum
8 16 (20.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (19.23%) Configuration Management
10 14 (17.95%) Unit Testing
11 13 (16.67%) Performance Testing
12 12 (15.38%) Security Testing
13 10 (12.82%) Integration Testing
14 9 (11.54%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 9 (11.54%) Microservices
15 8 (10.26%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 39 (50.00%) Java
2 25 (32.05%) Python
3 14 (17.95%) SQL
4 7 (8.97%) C#
4 7 (8.97%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.97%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.85%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.85%) VBScript
6 2 (2.56%) C
6 2 (2.56%) PHP
7 1 (1.28%) Bash
7 1 (1.28%) Bicep
7 1 (1.28%) Go
7 1 (1.28%) Scala
7 1 (1.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 28 (35.90%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.69%) AAT
4 5 (6.41%) ISTQB
5 4 (5.13%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.85%) Degree
7 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.97%) QA
2 3 (3.85%) HL7
3 2 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 22 (28.21%) Docker
2 7 (8.97%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (33.33%) Ansible
2 17 (21.79%) Kubernetes
2 17 (21.79%) Terraform
3 12 (15.38%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (15.38%) Podman
4 1 (1.28%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.28%) Puppet
4 1 (1.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (8.97%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.69%) Ericsson
3 4 (5.13%) VMware
4 3 (3.85%) Databricks
5 2 (2.56%) Adobe
5 2 (2.56%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.28%) BMC
6 1 (1.28%) Google
6 1 (1.28%) Remedy
6 1 (1.28%) Salesforce