Senior Test Consultant Contracts in Reading

Senior Test Consultant
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior Test Consultant daily rate in Reading is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Consultant 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £575 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,119 996 1,312
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 95.13% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 643 858
10th Percentile £214 £363 £176
25th Percentile £413 £456 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £491
Median % change year-on-year - +11.96% +3.42%
75th Percentile £634 £661 £592
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 22 8
10th Percentile £38.50 £45.25 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £55.91 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.60 £68.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% +142.86% -26.32%
75th Percentile £87.46 £75.56 £33.10
90th Percentile £98.75 £79.19 £34.92
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.80 £64.68 £19.75
% change year-on-year -5.99% +227.47% -8.14%

Senior Test Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings that featured Senior Test Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Consultant in Reading

Senior Test Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Consultant in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Consultant in Reading

Senior Test Consultant Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 18 June 2024, Senior Test Consultant 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 Senior Test Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing

Senior Test Consultant 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python