Hardware Test Engineer Contracts in Reading

Hardware Test Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Hardware Test Engineer daily rate in Reading is £340 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Hardware Test Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.084% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £330 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - -
75th Percentile £350 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £340 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 1,110 984 1,299
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 95.63% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 658 885
10th Percentile £213 £363 £182
25th Percentile £413 £455 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £623 £654 £596
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £491
% change year-on-year -2.38% +7.03% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 23 7
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £17.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +150.00% -40.23%
75th Percentile £74.66 £74.40 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £59.00 £56.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.72% +170.88% -1.29%

Hardware Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 11 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Hardware Test Engineer 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 Reading region featuring Hardware Test Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving

Hardware Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python