Test Scripting Contracts in Berkshire

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Test Scripting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Scripting over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 120 92
Rank change year-on-year +45 -28 +12
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 18 4 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.53% 0.20% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 0.23% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 19
10th Percentile £302 £476 £331
25th Percentile £354 £497 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £509 £515
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% -1.17% +3.52%
75th Percentile £484 £532 £580
90th Percentile £565 £573 -
South East median daily rate £400 £475 £420
% change year-on-year -15.79% +13.10% -9.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Test Scripting 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 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £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 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

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 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 +36 8 £463 -9.14% 2
Wokingham - 6 £438 - 1
Windsor - 2 £413 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
1 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Hive
1 2 (11.11%) Big Data
1 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.11%) MySQL
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
1 2 (11.11%) Spark SQL
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 2 (11.11%) SpecFlow
3 1 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (5.56%) Selenium
3 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Test Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) SCADA Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Tester
3 2 (11.11%) Big Data Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Hadoop Developer
3 2 (11.11%) QA Tester
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Test Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Network Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Programme Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Programme Test Manager
4 1 (5.56%) QA Leader
4 1 (5.56%) QA Manager
4 1 (5.56%) QA Test Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) RFC 2544
2 2 (11.11%) CSS
2 2 (11.11%) HTML
2 2 (11.11%) Kafka
2 2 (11.11%) Playwright
2 2 (11.11%) PySpark
2 2 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 3 (16.67%) Operational Technology
1 3 (16.67%) SCADA
2 1 (5.56%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Test Automation
2 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) Scrum
4 4 (22.22%) Use Case
5 3 (16.67%) Cartography
5 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 3 (16.67%) Load Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Service Management
5 3 (16.67%) Test Management
6 2 (11.11%) API Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Data Collection
6 2 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (11.11%) Defect Management
6 2 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Human Resource Management
6 2 (11.11%) Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (11.11%) SDLC
6 2 (11.11%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) C#
2 3 (16.67%) Perl
2 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL
2 3 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) HP
3 1 (5.56%) Snow
3 1 (5.56%) Zscaler