End-to-End Testing Contract Job Trends in Reading

End-to-End Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring End-to-End Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 82 85
Rank change year-on-year +14 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 10 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.37% 0.68% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.74% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile £445 £478 £425
25th Percentile £475 £500 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £550 £528 £488
90th Percentile £561 £534 £495
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £525 £488
% change year-on-year +4.76% +7.69% +19.49%

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 658 940 951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.14% 91.35% 92.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 534 621
10th Percentile £350 £325 £213
25th Percentile £425 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +10.48% -
75th Percentile £613 £650 £615
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 9 17
10th Percentile £14.75 £28.45 £41.24
25th Percentile £20.38 £42.50 £59.89
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.76 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +5.25% -2.42% -2.63%
75th Percentile £93.75 £69.69 £65.25
90th Percentile £99.00 £77.39 £66.96
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £59.00 £61.45
% change year-on-year -31.47% -3.98% +29.36%

End-to-End Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing End-to-End Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

End-to-End Testing job vacancy trend in Reading

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing End-to-End Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing End-to-End Testing

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing End-to-End Testing in Reading over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

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

End-to-End Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing End-to-End Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing End-to-End Testing

End-to-End Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (10.00%) NUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Tester
5 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
5 1 (10.00%) Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) QA Tester
5 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Manager
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
5 1 (10.00%) UAT Manager
5 1 (10.00%) UAT Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) ADO
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) Playwright
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
1 8 (80.00%) Performance Testing
1 8 (80.00%) Validation
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (70.00%) Test Scripting
3 6 (60.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 6 (60.00%) High Availability
3 6 (60.00%) Load Testing
3 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (60.00%) Risk Analysis
3 6 (60.00%) Scenario Testing
3 6 (60.00%) Verification and Validation
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) API Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
5 1 (10.00%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) AWS Certification
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) BMC
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy
1 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow