System Testing Contracts in Berkshire

System Testing
South East > Berkshire

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 102 120
Rank change year-on-year -11 +18 -18
Contract jobs citing System Testing 9 12 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.46% 0.67% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.73% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 10
10th Percentile £549 £463 £85
25th Percentile £575 £477 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £438
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +20.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £512
90th Percentile £631 £559 £538
South East median daily rate £600 £519 £498
% change year-on-year +15.66% +4.27% +65.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - -
Median hourly rate £21.00 - -
75th Percentile £21.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £21.00 £62.50 £26.25
% change year-on-year -66.40% +138.10% -50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

System 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 1,735 1,635 2,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.84% 90.93% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 915 1,056 1,368
10th Percentile £213 £350 £270
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £630 £588
90th Percentile £687 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 49 43
10th Percentile £18.95 £19.30 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.44 £24.50 £17.25
Median hourly rate £60.57 £56.89 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +170.24% -
75th Percentile £71.89 £73.59 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.40 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
% change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.18%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in Berkshire

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for System Testing in Berkshire

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in Berkshire

System 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 System Testing within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 6 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 -10 7 £600 +14.29% 1
Maidenhead - 2 - -
System Testing
South East

System 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Key Vault
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (22.22%) Veeva
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Git
General
1 7 (77.78%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Designer
1 5 (55.56%) Lead
1 5 (55.56%) Lead Designer
2 4 (44.44%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Information Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Product Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Product Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) AngularJS
1 5 (55.56%) CSS
1 5 (55.56%) HTML
1 5 (55.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Life Science
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Data-Driven Testing
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Integration Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Security Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Software Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
2 5 (55.56%) Unit Testing
3 4 (44.44%) API Design
3 4 (44.44%) API Development
3 4 (44.44%) Coaching
4 3 (33.33%) Product Backlog
5 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (22.22%) Data Enrichment
5 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Regulatory Change
5 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
1 5 (55.56%) PHP
2 1 (11.11%) C