Test Manager Contracts in Berkshire

Test Manager
South East > Berkshire

The median Test Manager daily rate in Berkshire is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 106 110
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 9 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.45% 0.39% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.41% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 13
10th Percentile £443 £378 £380
25th Percentile £469 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £569 £508 £638
90th Percentile £588 £578 £675
South East median daily rate £550 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,871 1,718 2,289
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 94.81% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 990 1,099 1,473
10th Percentile £213 £325 £205
25th Percentile £376 £419 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £580
90th Percentile £688 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 57 41
10th Percentile £18.85 £17.34 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.31 £21.65 £17.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £56.89 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% +170.88% -2.33%
75th Percentile £70.47 £73.59 £32.50
90th Percentile £86.05 £79.61 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -13.40%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Manager in Berkshire

Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Manager in Berkshire

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Manager in Berkshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Manager in Berkshire

Test Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Manager in Berkshire

Test Manager
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 Manager within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 -6 3 £563 +28.57% 1
Bracknell - 3 - -
Slough +13 1 £450 -28.00%
Maidenhead - 1 - -
Test Manager
South East

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Test Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 3 (33.33%) Selenium
2 3 (33.33%) Test Management
2 3 (33.33%) SpecFlow
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Postman
3 2 (22.22%) Test Planning
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) QA
3 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 1 (11.11%) Life Science
4 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
4 1 (11.11%) HL7
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) Web Services
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (11.11%) ERP
4 1 (11.11%) Citrix
4 1 (11.11%) Middleware
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
4 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing

Test Manager 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) OCI
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Postman
1 3 (33.33%) Selenium
1 3 (33.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (11.11%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Test Management
2 3 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) Test Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) ERP
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (11.11%) Runbook
4 1 (11.11%) SDLC
4 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Identification
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Debt
4 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) HL7
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Citrix
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle