Test Automation Contracts in Reading

Automated Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 42 47
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 -14
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 66 47 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.50% 4.38% 4.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.06% 4.80% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 34 51
10th Percentile £425 £366 £385
25th Percentile £513 £454 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £556 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.87% +5.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £675 £614 £563
90th Percentile £688 £619 £625
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,090 979 1,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.76% 91.24% 90.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 649 821
10th Percentile £213 £365 £256
25th Percentile £404 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £615 £653 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +6.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 21 10
10th Percentile £26.10 £45.00 £13.58
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.50 £22.31
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +116.67% -31.03%
75th Percentile £84.40 £74.00 £48.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £60.89
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.00 £56.89 £21.05
% change year-on-year +7.23% +170.24% -2.37%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Reading

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Reading

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Reading over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Reading

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Reading

Test Automation
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (16.67%) Apache
1 11 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (48.48%) Azure
2 20 (30.30%) AWS
3 11 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (15.15%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (7.58%) Azure AKS
6 5 (7.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (7.58%) PaaS
7 4 (6.06%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 2 (3.03%) Azure Storage
8 2 (3.03%) GCP
9 1 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.52%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.52%) GitHub
9 1 (1.52%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.67%) BGP
1 11 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (16.67%) MPLS
1 11 (16.67%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (1.52%) DNS
2 1 (1.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 11 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 11 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.52%) MySQL
2 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (46.97%) Selenium
2 27 (40.91%) Jenkins
2 27 (40.91%) JIRA
3 25 (37.88%) Cucumber
3 25 (37.88%) GitLab
3 25 (37.88%) SonarQube
4 24 (36.36%) REST Assured
5 14 (21.21%) Robot Framework
6 13 (19.70%) Git
7 12 (18.18%) TestRail
8 4 (6.06%) SpecFlow
9 3 (4.55%) TestLink
10 1 (1.52%) Android Studio
10 1 (1.52%) Appium
10 1 (1.52%) AppScan
10 1 (1.52%) Burp Suite
10 1 (1.52%) MSTest
10 1 (1.52%) Postman
10 1 (1.52%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.52%) WebDriver
General
1 34 (51.52%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (46.97%) Social Skills
3 20 (30.30%) Law
4 13 (19.70%) Police
5 7 (10.61%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (25.76%) Java Engineer
2 10 (15.15%) Network Engineer
2 10 (15.15%) Test Engineer
3 9 (13.64%) Developer
4 8 (12.12%) Senior
5 7 (10.61%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 7 (10.61%) Software Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Analyst
6 6 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Lead
7 5 (7.58%) Designer
7 5 (7.58%) Java Developer
7 5 (7.58%) Lead Designer
7 5 (7.58%) Senior Java Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) C# Developer
8 4 (6.06%) Release Manager
8 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 4 (6.06%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (54.55%) REST
2 25 (37.88%) Java EE
3 14 (21.21%) ARM Templates
4 11 (16.67%) NETCONF
4 11 (16.67%) RESTCONF
4 11 (16.67%) SOAP
4 11 (16.67%) YANG
5 8 (12.12%) HTML
6 5 (7.58%) AngularJS
6 5 (7.58%) CSS
6 5 (7.58%) Node.js
7 3 (4.55%) .NET
8 2 (3.03%) .NET Core
8 2 (3.03%) .NET Framework
8 2 (3.03%) YAML
9 1 (1.52%) ASP.NET Core
9 1 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (1.52%) JSON
9 1 (1.52%) RESTful
9 1 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.58%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (6.06%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.55%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.61%) Linux
2 4 (6.06%) Windows
2 4 (6.06%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.52%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (66.67%) DevOps
2 29 (43.94%) Continuous Integration
2 29 (43.94%) Decision-Making
3 28 (42.42%) Agile
4 25 (37.88%) Containerisation
4 25 (37.88%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (37.88%) Software Architecture
4 25 (37.88%) Technical Leadership
5 24 (36.36%) Software Engineering
6 22 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 21 (31.82%) Scrum
8 17 (25.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (25.76%) Security Testing
8 17 (25.76%) Unit Testing
9 16 (24.24%) Integration Testing
10 15 (22.73%) Configuration Management
10 15 (22.73%) Workflow
11 13 (19.70%) Performance Testing
12 11 (16.67%) Regression Testing
13 9 (13.64%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 28 (42.42%) Java
2 16 (24.24%) Python
3 15 (22.73%) SQL
4 8 (12.12%) C#
5 7 (10.61%) PowerShell
6 5 (7.58%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.58%) PHP
7 3 (4.55%) T-SQL
7 3 (4.55%) VBScript
8 2 (3.03%) Bash
9 1 (1.52%) Bicep
9 1 (1.52%) C
9 1 (1.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (48.48%) Security Cleared
2 28 (42.42%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.55%) AAT
4 3 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.03%) Degree
5 2 (3.03%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.52%) CSSLP
6 1 (1.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.12%) QA
2 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 26 (39.39%) Docker
2 3 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (39.39%) Ansible
2 17 (25.76%) Terraform
3 16 (24.24%) Kubernetes
4 12 (18.18%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (18.18%) Podman
5 2 (3.03%) Progress Chef
5 2 (3.03%) Puppet
6 1 (1.52%) Grafana
6 1 (1.52%) Graylog
6 1 (1.52%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.52%) Nagios
6 1 (1.52%) Nessus
6 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.52%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 8 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.55%) Ericsson
3 3 (4.55%) VMware
4 2 (3.03%) Adobe
5 1 (1.52%) BMC
5 1 (1.52%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.52%) Databricks
5 1 (1.52%) Google
5 1 (1.52%) Remedy
5 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.52%) Splunk
5 1 (1.52%) Veracode