End-to-End Testing Contracts in Reading

End-to-End Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring End-to-End Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited End-to-End Testing 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 55 86 79
Rank change year-on-year +31 -7 +9
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 5 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.84% 0.42% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.47% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile £485 £383 £328
25th Percentile £500 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £388
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +9.68% -21.52%
75th Percentile £600 £438 £414
90th Percentile £615 £475 £439
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £425 £419
% change year-on-year +17.65% +1.49% -11.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

End-to-End 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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

End-to-End Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing End-to-End Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for End-to-End Testing in Reading

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing End-to-End Testing in Reading.

Daily rate trend for End-to-End Testing in Reading

End-to-End Testing
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 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Electronics
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Automation Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Automation Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) PySpark
2 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) System Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (60.00%) Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) Data Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Data-Driven Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks
2 2 (40.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Snow