Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Test Strategy
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 101 109
Rank change year-on-year +26 +8 -45
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 21 14 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.80% 0.82% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 0.95% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 6
10th Percentile £357 £489 £456
25th Percentile £372 £511 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £510
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +5.39% -21.54%
75th Percentile £509 £622 £520
90th Percentile £644 £686 £544
South East median daily rate £450 £525 £414
% change year-on-year -14.29% +26.81% -24.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Test Strategy 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 1,070 1,481 1,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.53% 87.07% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 767 1,017
10th Percentile £325 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £693 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 72 63
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.51 £18.50
25th Percentile £16.66 £48.28 £47.95
Median hourly rate £32.18 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +2.67% +97.08%
75th Percentile £59.44 £71.89 £72.17
90th Percentile £87.28 £87.32 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £20.40 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.43% +9.24% +64.96%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Berkshire over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Berkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

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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 Strategy within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Slough +8 11 £450 - 3
Reading +29 7 £500 -15.43% 3
Bracknell -1 1 - - 2
Wokingham - 1 £500 - 1
Test Strategy
South East

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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 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) ATM
1 10 (47.62%) Ethernet
1 10 (47.62%) Frame Relay
1 10 (47.62%) GPRS
1 10 (47.62%) GSM
1 10 (47.62%) LAN
1 10 (47.62%) LTE
1 10 (47.62%) MPLS
1 10 (47.62%) SAN
1 10 (47.62%) SDH
1 10 (47.62%) UMTS
1 10 (47.62%) VPN
1 10 (47.62%) WAN
1 10 (47.62%) Wireshark
2 1 (4.76%) FCAPS
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Selenium
2 2 (9.52%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 11 (52.38%) Telecoms
3 3 (14.29%) Billing
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) IP Engineer
1 9 (42.86%) Test Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) IP Network Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Consultant
4 3 (14.29%) Lead
4 3 (14.29%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (9.52%) IP Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) IP Network Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Network Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) React Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Test Leader
5 2 (9.52%) Tester
6 1 (4.76%) Programme Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) CSS
1 2 (9.52%) HTML
1 2 (9.52%) Material-UI
1 2 (9.52%) Next.js
1 2 (9.52%) Node.js
1 2 (9.52%) OpenAPI
1 2 (9.52%) React
1 2 (9.52%) Swagger
2 1 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.76%) Playwright
2 1 (4.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Linux
2 11 (52.38%) Unix
3 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
1 12 (57.14%) Project Management
2 11 (52.38%) Regression Testing
3 10 (47.62%) Fault Management
4 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
4 4 (19.05%) Test Management
5 3 (14.29%) CRM
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) Agile
6 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
6 2 (9.52%) DevSecOps
6 2 (9.52%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Microservices
6 2 (9.52%) Project Delivery
6 2 (9.52%) System Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Test Scripting
6 2 (9.52%) Unit Testing
6 2 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
3 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) Perl
4 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) CCNP
1 10 (47.62%) Cisco Certification
1 10 (47.62%) ISEB
1 10 (47.62%) ISTQB
1 10 (47.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) HP ALM
2 1 (4.76%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Cisco
1 10 (47.62%) Juniper
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Foundry
2 1 (4.76%) HP
2 1 (4.76%) Nokia
2 1 (4.76%) Palantir
2 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.76%) Snow