System Testing Contracts in Berkshire

System Testing
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring System Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited System Testing over the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 110 101
Rank change year-on-year +20 -9 +31
Contract jobs citing System Testing 7 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.58% 0.34% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.40% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 14
10th Percentile £429 £519 £508
25th Percentile £511 £534 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +9.09% +272.88%
75th Percentile £631 £653 £571
90th Percentile £643 £665 £650
South East median daily rate £581 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +1.09% - +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

System Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,108 1,492 1,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.26% 85.75% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 682 791 1,001
10th Percentile £350 £319 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £517 £518
% change year-on-year -3.34% -0.22% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 80 57
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.75 £17.24
25th Percentile £17.30 £41.25 £24.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £61.33 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year -47.74% +7.81% +103.16%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.73 £73.59
90th Percentile £87.50 £87.46 £75.84
South East median hourly rate £21.32 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.82% +14.70% +100.00%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in Berkshire over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 11 August 2025. 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 +28 6 £581 -7.00% 6
Slough - 1 - -
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) GIS
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) HR Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Payroll Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Test Manager
2 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Test Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Operational Technology
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
1 2 (28.57%) SCADA
2 1 (14.29%) Cyberattack
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Cartography
2 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
2 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) API Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Budget Responsibility
3 1 (14.29%) Business Case
3 1 (14.29%) Data Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (14.29%) Line Management
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Product Backlog
3 1 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Time Management
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Perl
1 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Snow