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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 81 99
Rank change year-on-year -17 +18 -42
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% 0.28% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.31% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £279
25th Percentile £419 £556 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £563 £320
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +75.97% -20.09%
75th Percentile £456 £569 £339
90th Percentile - - £346
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £563 £373
% change year-on-year -24.44% +51.01% -7.45%

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 1,077 960 1,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.50% 91.17% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 635 819
10th Percentile £213 £363 £253
25th Percentile £402 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £656 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £657
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.67% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 23 8
10th Percentile £26.10 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £84.40 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.30 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.02% +174.67% -2.09%

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
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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (50.00%) Xcode
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
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%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce