Manual Testing Contracts in Reading

Manual Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Manual Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Manual Testing over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 89 98
Rank change year-on-year -4 +9 -43
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 3 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.25% 0.28% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.30% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £437 - £279
25th Percentile £464 £556 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £563 £320
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +75.97% -3.14%
75th Percentile £564 £569 £339
90th Percentile £586 - £346
Berkshire median daily rate £431 £563 £373
% change year-on-year -23.33% +51.01% -6.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Manual Testing 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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,093 994 1,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.86% 91.19% 90.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 653 820
10th Percentile £213 £363 £262
25th Percentile £402 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +4.71%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £494
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.33% +5.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 20 10
10th Percentile £20.17 £42.35 £13.58
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.25 £22.31
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +116.67% -31.03%
75th Percentile £84.40 £71.44 £48.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £60.89
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.07 £56.89 £21.05
% change year-on-year +5.60% +170.24% -4.45%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Manual Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Reading

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in Reading

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in Reading over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in Reading

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in Reading

Manual 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 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Android Studio
1 1 (33.33%) AppScan
1 1 (33.33%) Burp Suite
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
1 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
1 1 (33.33%) Xcode
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CSSLP
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Graylog
1 1 (33.33%) HP Fortify
1 1 (33.33%) Nagios
1 1 (33.33%) Nessus
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
1 1 (33.33%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Checkmarx
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
1 1 (33.33%) Veracode