System Testing Contracts in Reading

System Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring System Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited System Testing over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 90 73
Rank change year-on-year +39 -17 +13
Contract jobs citing System Testing 10 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.79% 0.34% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 0.38% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 12
10th Percentile £566 £538 £484
25th Percentile £577 £562 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £590 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% +9.81% +8.04%
75th Percentile £619 £628 £553
90th Percentile £638 £634 £574
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £590 £525
% change year-on-year +1.65% +12.43% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

System 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 513 1,046 922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.77% 89.63% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 561 608
10th Percentile £315 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £652
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 48 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £14.50 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £50.89 £58.32
Median hourly rate £53.10 £61.33 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.43% -7.08% +135.71%
75th Percentile £65.14 £78.84 £75.27
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.48 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £60.30 £63.00
% change year-on-year +1.98% -4.29% +199.64%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in Reading

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for System Testing in Reading

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in Reading

System 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (10.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (20.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) GIS
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (10.00%) HR Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Payroll Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Product Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
1 4 (40.00%) CSS
1 4 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cyberattack
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Replication
2 2 (20.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (40.00%) LLM
3 4 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Product Backlog
4 3 (30.00%) SDLC
5 2 (20.00%) Business Case
5 2 (20.00%) Cartography
5 2 (20.00%) Channel Management
5 2 (20.00%) Data Security
5 2 (20.00%) Line Management
5 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (20.00%) Time Management
5 2 (20.00%) Use Case
5 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Perl
3 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Snow