Test Automation Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Automation Test Engineer
South East > Berkshire

As of 1 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Automation Test Engineer daily rate in Berkshire.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - £365 £478
% change year-on-year - -23.56% +19.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,085 1,866 1,720
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 992 1,104
10th Percentile £311 £213 £325
25th Percentile £413 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 116 56
10th Percentile £27.46 £18.75 £17.61
25th Percentile £50.06 £41.44 £22.66
Median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%
75th Percentile £76.77 £70.42 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £86.32 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in Berkshire

Test Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation Engineer in Berkshire

Test Automation Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation Engineer in Berkshire

Test Automation Engineer
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 Test Automation Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
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Test Automation Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Test Automation Engineer 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 Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (66.67%) SpecFlow
2 2 (66.67%) Gherkin
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (66.67%) PySpark
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Data-Driven Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 2 (66.67%) Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) Electronics
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared

Test Automation Engineer 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) SpecFlow
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Electronics
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Gherkin
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) NETCONF
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) RESTCONF
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) YAML
2 1 (33.33%) YANG
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) CentOS
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Data-Driven Testing
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco