Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Reading

Test Strategy
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 83 90
Rank change year-on-year +26 +7 -46
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 5 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.88% 0.82% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.96% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £356 £516 £465
25th Percentile £358 £522 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £591 £500
Median % change year-on-year -35.73% +18.25% -23.08%
75th Percentile £484 £686 £534
90th Percentile £591 - £555
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £538 £510
% change year-on-year -16.28% +5.39% -21.54%

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 523 941 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.92% 86.17% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 506 664
10th Percentile £350 £350 £300
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.31% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 28 19
10th Percentile - £14.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £14.75 £51.93 £55.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £61.33 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.16% -7.08% +89.17%
75th Percentile £55.00 £75.40 £74.40
90th Percentile £58.00 £87.46 £75.60
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £61.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -47.46% +2.49% +26.32%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Reading over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Reading

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Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Test Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Test Strategy

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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 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) npm
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Billing
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
3 1 (20.00%) React Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) Material-UI
1 1 (20.00%) Next.js
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) Swagger
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CRM
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (60.00%) Test Management
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) System Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes