Test Management Contracts in Berkshire

Test Management
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Test Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 107 99
Rank change year-on-year +25 -8 +17
Contract jobs citing Test Management 13 15 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.11% 0.76% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.85% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 6
10th Percentile £302 £433 £466
25th Percentile £360 £463 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £510
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +0.44% +10.32%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £519
90th Percentile - £568 £544
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Test Management 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 1,098 1,761 1,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.37% 88.89% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 921 1,045
10th Percentile £313 £213 £340
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £704
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 100 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.05 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.30 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +6.02% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.89 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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

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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 2 May 2025.

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 2 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
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +31 5 £360 -29.76%
Wokingham - 4 £500 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Selenium
General
1 3 (23.08%) Billing
1 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Tester
2 3 (23.08%) Lead
2 3 (23.08%) Test Leader
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Network Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) OSS Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Technical Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) QA Leader
4 1 (7.69%) QA Manager
4 1 (7.69%) QA Test Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
1 4 (30.77%) Product Ownership
1 4 (30.77%) SCADA
2 2 (15.38%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Test Strategy
2 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (30.77%) Defect Management
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) Project Delivery
3 4 (30.77%) Project Management
3 4 (30.77%) Test Assurance
3 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
3 4 (30.77%) Validation
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) CRM
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Resource Allocation
4 3 (23.08%) Service Management
5 2 (15.38%) Change Management
5 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (15.38%) ITIL
5 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Project Planning
5 2 (15.38%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Perl
1 4 (30.77%) PL/SQL
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) PMI Certification
2 2 (15.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Amdocs OSS
1 2 (15.38%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) Cramer
2 2 (15.38%) HP
2 2 (15.38%) Infoblox
2 2 (15.38%) Remedy
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle