Test Automation Contracts in Reading

Automated Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 43 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 67 43 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.66% 4.12% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.44% 4.66% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 29 40
10th Percentile £478 £373 £352
25th Percentile £528 £431 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +9.52% +15.26%
75th Percentile £650 £614 £575
90th Percentile £688 £619 £626
Berkshire median daily rate £625 £550 £513
% change year-on-year +13.64% +7.32% +13.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Test Automation 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 1,040 922 1,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.91% 88.40% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 600 811
10th Percentile £213 £363 £238
25th Percentile £413 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £625 £657 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 23 9
10th Percentile £14.50 £45.50 £13.15
25th Percentile £52.21 £58.32 £21.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +120.00% -15.49%
75th Percentile £80.69 £75.38 £34.89
90th Percentile £87.53 £79.19 £38.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.80 £63.00 £21.03
% change year-on-year -3.49% +199.64% -0.12%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Reading

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Reading

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Reading over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Reading

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Reading

Test Automation
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (10.45%) Apache
1 7 (10.45%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.49%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 40 (59.70%) Azure
2 15 (22.39%) AWS
3 14 (20.90%) Azure Monitor
4 11 (16.42%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (16.42%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (14.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (13.43%) Azure Functions
6 9 (13.43%) Serverless
7 6 (8.96%) Entra ID
8 4 (5.97%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (5.97%) PaaS
9 3 (4.48%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.99%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.49%) Azure API Management
11 1 (1.49%) Azure Cognitive Search
11 1 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.49%) GCP
11 1 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.49%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.45%) BGP
1 7 (10.45%) Ethernet VPN
1 7 (10.45%) MPLS
1 7 (10.45%) Radio Access Network
1 7 (10.45%) VPN
2 1 (1.49%) DNS
2 1 (1.49%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.88%) NoSQL
2 7 (10.45%) MongoDB
2 7 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 42 (62.69%) Selenium
2 29 (43.28%) Cucumber
3 26 (38.81%) Jenkins
4 24 (35.82%) REST Assured
4 24 (35.82%) SonarQube
5 23 (34.33%) JIRA
6 20 (29.85%) GitLab
7 18 (26.87%) Git
8 10 (14.93%) Robot Framework
9 7 (10.45%) TestRail
10 5 (7.46%) TestLink
11 3 (4.48%) JMeter
11 3 (4.48%) Maven
11 3 (4.48%) SpecFlow
12 1 (1.49%) MSTest
12 1 (1.49%) NUnit
12 1 (1.49%) TeamCity
12 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
12 1 (1.49%) WebDriver
12 1 (1.49%) Xcode
General
1 36 (53.73%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (43.28%) Social Skills
3 20 (29.85%) Law
4 13 (19.40%) Police
5 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (26.87%) Developer
2 17 (25.37%) Java Engineer
3 11 (16.42%) Senior
4 9 (13.43%) Full Stack Developer
5 7 (10.45%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Software Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Analyst
6 6 (8.96%) Java Software Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Network Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Test Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Azure Developer
7 5 (7.46%) Ericsson Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Java Developer
7 5 (7.46%) Senior Java Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Full Stack Python Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (47.76%) REST
2 25 (37.31%) Java EE
3 14 (20.90%) ARM Templates
4 9 (13.43%) React
5 7 (10.45%) NETCONF
5 7 (10.45%) RESTCONF
5 7 (10.45%) SOAP
5 7 (10.45%) YANG
6 5 (7.46%) HTML
7 3 (4.48%) .NET
7 3 (4.48%) Gherkin
8 2 (2.99%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.99%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.99%) CSS
8 2 (2.99%) Node.js
8 2 (2.99%) XML
8 2 (2.99%) YAML
9 1 (1.49%) JSON
9 1 (1.49%) RESTful
9 1 (1.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.48%) Client/Server
2 3 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.49%) Life Science
3 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.49%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.96%) Linux
2 3 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (4.48%) Windows
2 3 (4.48%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.49%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (71.64%) DevOps
2 27 (40.30%) CI/CD
2 27 (40.30%) Continuous Integration
3 26 (38.81%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (38.81%) Software Architecture
4 25 (37.31%) Decision-Making
4 25 (37.31%) Technical Leadership
5 24 (35.82%) Agile
5 24 (35.82%) Software Engineering
6 20 (29.85%) Containerisation
7 16 (23.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (23.88%) Scrum
8 15 (22.39%) Unit Testing
9 14 (20.90%) Configuration Management
10 10 (14.93%) Performance Testing
10 10 (14.93%) Security Testing
11 9 (13.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 9 (13.43%) Full Stack Development
11 9 (13.43%) Integration Testing
12 8 (11.94%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 39 (58.21%) Java
2 24 (35.82%) Python
3 12 (17.91%) SQL
4 6 (8.96%) C#
4 6 (8.96%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.46%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.48%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.48%) VBScript
7 2 (2.99%) C
7 2 (2.99%) PHP
8 1 (1.49%) Bash
8 1 (1.49%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 30 (44.78%) Security Cleared
2 27 (40.30%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.46%) AAT
4 3 (4.48%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.99%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.49%) Degree
6 1 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.49%) HL7
System Software
1 21 (31.34%) Docker
2 9 (13.43%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (37.31%) Ansible
2 16 (23.88%) Terraform
3 14 (20.90%) Kubernetes
4 12 (17.91%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (17.91%) Podman
5 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.46%) Ericsson
3 3 (4.48%) Databricks
3 3 (4.48%) VMware
4 2 (2.99%) Adobe
5 1 (1.49%) BMC
5 1 (1.49%) Google
5 1 (1.49%) Remedy
5 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow