Test Management Contracts in Berkshire

Test Management
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Test Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Management over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 100 118
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 -30
Contract jobs citing Test Management 15 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.77% 0.74% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.81% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 12
10th Percentile £433 £429 £378
25th Percentile £463 £466 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +9.84% -2.63%
75th Percentile £525 £519 £550
90th Percentile £568 £539 £670
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Test Management 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 1,721 1,602 2,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.76% 90.87% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 903 1,032 1,349
10th Percentile £213 £345 £271
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 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £701 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.28% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 48 42
10th Percentile £18.95 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.44 £25.72 £17.13
Median hourly rate £61.30 £57.82 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% +174.99% -0.12%
75th Percentile £71.89 £73.69 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.51 £68.17
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -21.82%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in Berkshire

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Management in Berkshire

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in Berkshire over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in Berkshire

Test Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in Berkshire

Test Management
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 Management within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 8 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 -11 11 £513 +1.69% 1
Slough +12 2 £425 -17.02%
Test Management
South East

Test Management
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:

Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle EBS
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) OCI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
1 1 (6.67%) TestRail
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Aviation
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Analyst
1 8 (53.33%) Test Analyst
2 6 (40.00%) QA Analyst
2 6 (40.00%) QA Test Analyst
2 6 (40.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Business Test Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Defect Manager
3 1 (6.67%) E-Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Life Science
2 2 (13.33%) NHS
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
4 4 (26.67%) Test Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (13.33%) ERP
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Test Planning
5 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
6 1 (6.67%) Defect Tracking
6 1 (6.67%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (6.67%) Incident Management
6 1 (6.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (6.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 1 (6.67%) SDLC
6 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Identification
6 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
1 5 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) QA
2 3 (20.00%) HL7
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow