Test Management Contracts in Reading

Test Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Test Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 80 79
Rank change year-on-year +24 -1 +12
Contract jobs citing Test Management 4 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.67% 0.92% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.02% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 4
10th Percentile £316 £463 £452
25th Percentile £339 £500 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £513 £504
Median % change year-on-year -25.61% +1.69% -6.23%
75th Percentile £427 £534 £526
90th Percentile £452 £576 £552
Berkshire median daily rate £481 £513 £510
% change year-on-year -6.10% +0.44% +10.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Test Management 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 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in Reading

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Test Management in Reading

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in Reading

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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 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (50.00%) Billing
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Technical Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) OSS Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) CRM
3 2 (50.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (50.00%) Service Management
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Cramer
1 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy