Unit Testing Contracts in Berkshire

Unit Testing
South East > Berkshire

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 78 89
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 +33
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 5 39 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.42% 1.98% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 2.28% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 34 19
10th Percentile £519 £458 £555
25th Percentile £547 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +15.04%
75th Percentile £597 £688 £728
90th Percentile £614 - £750
South East median daily rate £500 £583 £550
% change year-on-year -14.16% +5.91% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Unit Testing 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 1,116 1,713 1,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.16% 86.78% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 852 1,049
10th Percentile £325 £270 £336
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £716
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 112 56
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.60 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.52 £41.25 £24.13
Median hourly rate £51.00 £60.53 £59.38
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% +1.94% +182.74%
75th Percentile £76.35 £71.89 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.60 £87.46 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -52.00% - +122.22%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Berkshire

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Berkshire

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Berkshire

Unit Testing
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 Unit Testing within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Wokingham - 4 £575 -
Reading -8 1 £600 -4.00% 2
Unit Testing
South East

Unit Testing
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 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) NUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) React Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Test Programme Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Playwright
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) Apollo GraphQL
2 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (40.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Design Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) UX Design
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Wireframes
4 1 (20.00%) API Development
4 1 (20.00%) API Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (40.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (40.00%) Snow
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat