Automation Tester Contracts in Reading

Automation Tester
Berkshire > Reading

The median Automation Tester daily rate in Reading is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 79 93
Rank change year-on-year -15 +14 -29
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 2 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% 0.68% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.71% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £243 £434
25th Percentile £425 £288 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £469
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -20.00% +10.29%
75th Percentile £475 £394 £553
90th Percentile - £398 £600
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £406 £469
% change year-on-year +10.77% -13.33% -1.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Reading with a recognized job title 1,110 987 1,281
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 95.64% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 657 874
10th Percentile £213 £363 £184
25th Percentile £413 £455 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £599
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -2.38% +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 25 7
10th Percentile £35.00 £18.03 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £48.40 £17.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +150.00% -40.23%
75th Percentile £74.66 £74.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £59.50 £56.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +4.60% +170.88% -1.29%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings that featured Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in Reading

Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Tester in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Automation Tester in Reading

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Automation Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Reading region featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Android Studio
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Value Proposition
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML

Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Android Studio
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (50.00%) Xcode
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Value Proposition
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA