Test Management Contracts in Reading

Test Management
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Test Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Management over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 71 91
Rank change year-on-year -20 +20 -26
Contract jobs citing Test Management 11 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.94% 0.90% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.01% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 4
10th Percentile £463 £452 -
25th Percentile £500 £483 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £504 £469
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.52% +30.21%
75th Percentile £534 £526 £522
90th Percentile £576 £552 £584
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £508 £463
% change year-on-year +0.89% +9.84% -2.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Test Management 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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,048 895 1,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.88% 89.41% 90.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 599 796
10th Percentile £213 £363 £253
25th Percentile £413 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 23 8
10th Percentile £19.63 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +132.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £76.99 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.47 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.00 £57.82 £21.03
% change year-on-year +5.50% +174.99% -0.12%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in Reading

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Test Management in Reading

Test Management
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:

Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Oracle EBS
1 7 (63.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
1 8 (72.73%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) TestRail
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (63.64%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Analyst
1 8 (72.73%) Test Analyst
2 6 (54.55%) QA Analyst
2 6 (54.55%) QA Test Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Test Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Business Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Defect Manager
4 1 (9.09%) E-Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Life Science
1 1 (9.09%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
2 8 (72.73%) DevOps
3 7 (63.64%) Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (9.09%) ERP
5 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (9.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Identification
5 1 (9.09%) Test Planning
5 1 (9.09%) Test Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) HL7
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow