Test Management Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Test Management
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Test Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 106 118
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 -2
Contract jobs citing Test Management 14 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.00% 0.25% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.28% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 4
10th Percentile £374 £395 £354
25th Percentile £420 £401 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year +8.47% +3.03% -10.81%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £481
90th Percentile £598 £518 £493
South East median daily rate £455 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -17.27% +10.00% +11.11%

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 1,258 1,434 1,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.92% 89.01% 91.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 823 778 963
10th Percentile £306 £318 £213
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £541 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +8.25% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 47 72
10th Percentile £14.75 £23.90 £24.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £41.88 £48.40
Median hourly rate £37.28 £58.49 £61.72
Median % change year-on-year -36.26% -5.23% +23.44%
75th Percentile £77.50 £64.73 £70.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £79.67 £76.06
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £56.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year -61.23% +8.09% +20.69%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Test Management job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Test Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Test Management

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in Berkshire

Test Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Test Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Test Management

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 28 November 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
Wokingham - 5 £460 -
Bracknell - 4 £588 - 2
Reading +15 3 £383 -10.00% 1
Thatcham - 1 - -
Test Management
South East

Test Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Entra ID
3 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) OCI
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
General
1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Automotive
5 1 (7.14%) Billing
5 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Test Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Strategy Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Test Strategist
2 2 (14.29%) Test Strategy Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Tester
3 1 (7.14%) ITSM Tester
3 1 (7.14%) QA Tester
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
3 1 (7.14%) UAT Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) JWT
1 3 (21.43%) OAuth
1 3 (21.43%) SAML
2 1 (7.14%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) IoT
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Agile
2 11 (78.57%) Test Automation
3 10 (71.43%) Scenario Testing
3 10 (71.43%) Test Strategy
4 8 (57.14%) Resilience Testing
5 7 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (50.00%) Software Testing
5 7 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (35.71%) Agile Testing
7 5 (35.71%) Business Continuity
7 5 (35.71%) DevOps
7 5 (35.71%) ERP
7 5 (35.71%) Integration Testing
7 5 (35.71%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (35.71%) SDLC
7 5 (35.71%) Validation
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 5 (35.71%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (35.71%) Workday
3 2 (14.29%) SAP
4 1 (7.14%) HP
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle