Test Scripting Contracts in Berkshire

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Test Scripting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Scripting over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 92 103
Rank change year-on-year -24 +11 -26
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 4 23 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.20% 1.27% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 1.40% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 24
10th Percentile £476 £331 £301
25th Percentile £497 £419 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £515 £498
Median % change year-on-year -1.17% +3.52% +3.38%
75th Percentile £532 £580 £543
90th Percentile £573 - £575
South East median daily rate £475 £420 £465
% change year-on-year +13.10% -9.68% +15.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Test Scripting 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 1,758 1,647 2,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.83% 90.69% 90.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 913 1,060 1,375
10th Percentile £213 £345 £270
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £707 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 48 44
10th Percentile £20.17 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.75 £25.72 £17.38
Median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%
75th Percentile £72.18 £73.69 £39.38
90th Percentile £87.41 £79.51 £76.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.72% -18.36%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Berkshire

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Berkshire over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Berkshire

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Berkshire

Test Scripting
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 Scripting within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 29 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 -18 3 £509 -1.17% 2
Newbury - 1 £475 -
Test Scripting
South East

Test Scripting
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) QA Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) QA Test Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Service Operations Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) E-business
1 2 (50.00%) Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft