Manual Testing Contracts in Berkshire

Manual Testing
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Manual Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Manual Testing 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 119 117 131
Rank change year-on-year -2 +14 -50
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 6 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.29% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.18% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £248 - £295
25th Percentile £358 £556 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £563 £373
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +51.01% -7.45%
75th Percentile £492 £569 £395
90th Percentile £557 - -
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £368
% change year-on-year -10.00% +36.05% -8.13%
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
% change year-on-year - - +43.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Manual Testing 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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,824 1,695 2,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.54% 91.57% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 950 1,091 1,395
10th Percentile £213 £350 £273
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +6.22%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £495
% change year-on-year -0.99% +2.02% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 45 45
10th Percentile £20.17 £18.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £24.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £61.00 £56.89 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +7.23% +170.24% -2.37%
75th Percentile £72.04 £74.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £87.37 £80.25 £73.80
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £48.08 £22.50
% change year-on-year -6.41% +113.69% -13.46%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Manual Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Berkshire

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in Berkshire

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in Berkshire over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in Berkshire

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in Berkshire

Manual Testing
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 Manual Testing within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 19 April 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 -5 3 £519 -7.78%
Bracknell - 2 £425 -
Newbury - 1 £200 -
Manual Testing
South East

Manual Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Android Studio
2 1 (16.67%) AppScan
2 1 (16.67%) Burp Suite
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Postman
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
2 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
2 1 (16.67%) Xcode
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Information Security
1 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Application Security
2 1 (16.67%) Blue-Green Deployment
2 1 (16.67%) Change Control
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (16.67%) User Stories
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CSSLP
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Graylog
1 1 (16.67%) HP Fortify
1 1 (16.67%) Nagios
1 1 (16.67%) Nessus
1 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
1 1 (16.67%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe
2 1 (16.67%) Checkmarx
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Veracode