Test Automation Contracts in Berkshire

Automated Testing
South East > Berkshire

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 51 53
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 79 64 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.05% 3.56% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 3.91% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 44 70
10th Percentile £451 £366 £375
25th Percentile £516 £411 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £531 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% +6.25% +11.73%
75th Percentile £650 £603 £571
90th Percentile £688 £618 £625
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £503
% change year-on-year -4.35% +14.43% +11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £38.50 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -29.36% -5.22% +31.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Test Automation 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 1,735 1,635 2,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.84% 90.93% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 915 1,056 1,368
10th Percentile £213 £350 £270
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £630 £588
90th Percentile £687 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 49 43
10th Percentile £18.95 £19.30 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.44 £24.50 £17.25
Median hourly rate £60.57 £56.89 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +170.24% -
75th Percentile £71.89 £73.59 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.40 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
% change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.18%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Berkshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Berkshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Berkshire over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Berkshire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Berkshire

Test Automation
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 Automation within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 6 May 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 +9 66 £600 +6.67% 9
Slough +17 7 £585 +50.97%
Bracknell -5 3 - -
Wokingham +2 2 £623 +8.26% 2
Newbury -3 2 £475 +11.76%
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
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 12 (15.19%) Apache
2 11 (13.92%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.27%) Confluence
4 1 (1.27%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 36 (45.57%) Azure
2 18 (22.78%) AWS
3 13 (16.46%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (13.92%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (7.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (6.33%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (5.06%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 4 (5.06%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (5.06%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (5.06%) PaaS
8 3 (3.80%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.53%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.53%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.53%) Serverless
10 1 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.27%) GCP
10 1 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.27%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.92%) BGP
1 11 (13.92%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (13.92%) MPLS
1 11 (13.92%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (13.92%) VPN
2 1 (1.27%) DNS
2 1 (1.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.46%) NoSQL
2 12 (15.19%) MongoDB
3 11 (13.92%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.27%) MySQL
4 1 (1.27%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (46.84%) Selenium
2 28 (35.44%) JIRA
3 26 (32.91%) Jenkins
4 25 (31.65%) Cucumber
4 25 (31.65%) GitLab
4 25 (31.65%) REST Assured
5 24 (30.38%) SonarQube
6 15 (18.99%) Git
7 14 (17.72%) Robot Framework
8 12 (15.19%) TestRail
9 5 (6.33%) SpecFlow
10 4 (5.06%) Postman
10 4 (5.06%) TestLink
11 1 (1.27%) Android Studio
11 1 (1.27%) Appium
11 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.27%) MSTest
11 1 (1.27%) SoapUI
11 1 (1.27%) TeamCity
11 1 (1.27%) WebDriver
General
1 36 (45.57%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (41.77%) Social Skills
3 20 (25.32%) Law
4 13 (16.46%) Police
5 6 (7.59%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.27%) Marketing
6 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (21.52%) Java Engineer
2 14 (17.72%) Developer
3 10 (12.66%) Network Engineer
3 10 (12.66%) Senior
3 10 (12.66%) Test Engineer
4 7 (8.86%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 7 (8.86%) Software Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) Analyst
5 6 (7.59%) Ericsson Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) Java Software Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) Lead
5 6 (7.59%) Test Manager
6 5 (6.33%) Designer
6 5 (6.33%) Full Stack Developer
6 5 (6.33%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.33%) Lead Designer
6 5 (6.33%) Senior Java Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (45.57%) REST
2 25 (31.65%) Java EE
3 14 (17.72%) ARM Templates
4 11 (13.92%) NETCONF
4 11 (13.92%) RESTCONF
4 11 (13.92%) SOAP
4 11 (13.92%) YANG
5 10 (12.66%) HTML
6 7 (8.86%) CSS
7 6 (7.59%) AngularJS
7 6 (7.59%) Node.js
8 3 (3.80%) React
8 3 (3.80%) Web Services
8 3 (3.80%) XML
9 2 (2.53%) .NET
9 2 (2.53%) .NET Framework
9 2 (2.53%) jQuery
9 2 (2.53%) YAML
10 1 (1.27%) JSON
10 1 (1.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.06%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.80%) Client/Server
3 3 (3.80%) Life Science
4 2 (2.53%) NHS
5 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.13%) Linux
2 3 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.80%) Windows
2 3 (3.80%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.53%) Android
4 1 (1.27%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (62.03%) DevOps
2 30 (37.97%) Agile
3 29 (36.71%) CI/CD
3 29 (36.71%) Continuous Integration
4 27 (34.18%) Containerisation
4 27 (34.18%) Decision-Making
4 27 (34.18%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (32.91%) Software Engineering
6 25 (31.65%) Software Architecture
6 25 (31.65%) Technical Leadership
7 20 (25.32%) Scrum
8 19 (24.05%) Unit Testing
9 18 (22.78%) Security Testing
10 16 (20.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (20.25%) Integration Testing
11 15 (18.99%) Configuration Management
11 15 (18.99%) Performance Testing
12 13 (16.46%) Workflow
13 11 (13.92%) Regression Testing
13 11 (13.92%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (40.51%) Java
2 21 (26.58%) Python
3 16 (20.25%) SQL
4 8 (10.13%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.86%) C#
5 7 (8.86%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.33%) PHP
7 3 (3.80%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.80%) VBScript
8 1 (1.27%) Bash
8 1 (1.27%) Bicep
8 1 (1.27%) C
8 1 (1.27%) Go
8 1 (1.27%) Scala
8 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (41.77%) Security Cleared
2 28 (35.44%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.59%) AAT
4 5 (6.33%) ISTQB
5 4 (5.06%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.80%) Degree
7 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.39%) QA
2 3 (3.80%) HL7
3 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (31.65%) Docker
2 4 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (32.91%) Ansible
2 17 (21.52%) Kubernetes
2 17 (21.52%) Terraform
3 12 (15.19%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (15.19%) Podman
4 1 (1.27%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.27%) Puppet
4 1 (1.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (8.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.59%) Ericsson
3 4 (5.06%) VMware
4 2 (2.53%) Adobe
4 2 (2.53%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.53%) Databricks
4 2 (2.53%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.53%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.27%) BMC
5 1 (1.27%) Google
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle
5 1 (1.27%) Remedy