Automation Tester Contracts in Berkshire

Automation Tester
South East > Berkshire

The median Automation Tester daily rate in Berkshire is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 96 133
Rank change year-on-year -23 +37 -33
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 2 12 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.10% 0.69% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.72% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £273 £426
25th Percentile £425 £363 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £463
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £475 £419 £495
90th Percentile - £434 £543
South East median daily rate £450 £426 £425
% change year-on-year +5.57% +0.29% +6.25%
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 - - £68.17

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,812 1,659 2,230
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 94.96% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 976 1,064 1,432
10th Percentile £213 £325 £219
25th Percentile £379 £425 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +7.14% +8.89%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £705 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £491
% change year-on-year - +1.83% +9.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 55 38
10th Percentile £18.65 £17.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.31 £23.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £59.15 £56.89 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.98% +195.51% -8.55%
75th Percentile £70.39 £73.80 £32.50
90th Percentile £86.59 £79.83 £71.89
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £47.79 £20.00
% change year-on-year -0.61% +138.95% -19.19%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in Berkshire

Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Tester in Berkshire

Automation Tester
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 Automation Tester within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 11 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 -30 2 £450 +20.00%
Automation Tester
South East

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Automation Tester 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 Berkshire region featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Android Studio
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Value Proposition
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML

Automation Tester Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Android Studio
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (50.00%) Xcode
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Value Proposition
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA