Test Management Contract Job Trends in Reading

Test Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Test Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 85 83
Rank change year-on-year +15 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing Test Management 3 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.44% 0.36% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.41% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £360 £395 -
25th Percentile £368 £401 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -15.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £479 £488 -
90th Percentile £537 £518 -
Berkshire median daily rate £461 £425 £413
% change year-on-year +8.47% +3.03% -10.81%

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 620 981 956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.31% 89.26% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 540 612
10th Percentile £325 £348 £213
25th Percentile £450 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £606 £650 £623
90th Percentile £650 £700 £698
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £541 £500
% change year-on-year -7.62% +8.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 15 18
10th Percentile £14.75 £27.35 £45.30
25th Percentile £17.35 £49.38 £60.12
Median hourly rate £58.00 £60.46 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -4.48% +15.07%
75th Percentile £81.00 £67.21 £65.81
90th Percentile £96.25 £82.45 £69.93
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £58.49 £61.72
% change year-on-year -36.26% -5.23% +23.44%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Test Management job vacancy trend in Reading

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Test Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Test Management

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in Reading over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in Reading

Test Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) OCI
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Billing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) UAT Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow