System Testing Contracts in Reading

System Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for System Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited System Testing over the 6 months to 17 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 73 92
Rank change year-on-year -18 +19 -33
Contract jobs citing System Testing 7 17 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.58% 1.57% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.72% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 8
10th Percentile £549 £463 £330
25th Percentile £575 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +13.51% +32.25%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £524
90th Percentile £631 £560 £538
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £525 £444
% change year-on-year +14.29% +18.14% +48.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

System 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 1,094 986 1,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.79% 91.13% 90.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 647 820
10th Percentile £213 £363 £262
25th Percentile £404 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +4.71%
75th Percentile £615 £652 £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 £26.10 £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 £60.14 £56.89 £21.05
% change year-on-year +5.72% +170.24% -4.45%

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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Key Vault
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Monitor
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
General
1 7 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Designer
1 5 (71.43%) Lead
1 5 (71.43%) Lead Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Product Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Product Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) AngularJS
1 5 (71.43%) CSS
1 5 (71.43%) HTML
1 5 (71.43%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Data-Driven Testing
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Integration Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Security Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Software Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Unit Testing
3 4 (57.14%) API Design
3 4 (57.14%) API Development
3 4 (57.14%) Coaching
4 3 (42.86%) Product Backlog
5 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (28.57%) Kanban
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
1 5 (71.43%) PHP
2 1 (14.29%) C