Test Strategy Contracts in Reading

Test Strategy
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Test Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Strategy 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 50 87 79
Rank change year-on-year +37 -8 +9
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 10 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.68% 0.34% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 0.37% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £480 £411 -
25th Percentile £516 £484 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +15.98%
75th Percentile £644 £613 £569
90th Percentile £655 £635 -
Berkshire median daily rate £463 £494 £513
% change year-on-year -6.33% -3.66% +10.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Test Strategy 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%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy 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 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) npm
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) BGP
1 5 (50.00%) MPLS
1 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (50.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
1 6 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (20.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 5 (50.00%) Telecoms Tester
1 5 (50.00%) Tester
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Technical Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) React Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior React Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) CSS
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) Material-UI
1 1 (10.00%) Next.js
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
1 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Test Management
5 2 (20.00%) CRM
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) Project Management
5 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (10.00%) API Development
6 1 (10.00%) Defect Management
6 1 (10.00%) Defect Tracking
6 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
6 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Front End Development
6 1 (10.00%) Microservices
6 1 (10.00%) Resource Allocation
6 1 (10.00%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (10.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (50.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Cramer
1 1 (10.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy
1 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (10.00%) Snow