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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 45 45
Rank change year-on-year +11 0 -7
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 65 41 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.47% 3.97% 4.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.06% 4.39% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 32 51
10th Percentile £433 £364 £385
25th Percentile £522 £445 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £675 £614 £563
90th Percentile £688 £619 £625
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £531 £500
% change year-on-year +12.94% +6.25% +5.82%

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 1,072 935 1,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.24% 90.60% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 623 816
10th Percentile £213 £363 £236
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £658 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

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 25 April 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 11 (16.92%) Apache
1 11 (16.92%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (47.69%) Azure
2 19 (29.23%) AWS
3 11 (16.92%) Azure Monitor
4 10 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (9.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (6.15%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 4 (6.15%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (6.15%) PaaS
8 3 (4.62%) Azure AKS
8 3 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.08%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.08%) Serverless
10 1 (1.54%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.54%) GCP
10 1 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.54%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.92%) BGP
1 11 (16.92%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (16.92%) MPLS
1 11 (16.92%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (16.92%) VPN
2 1 (1.54%) DNS
2 1 (1.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 11 (16.92%) MongoDB
2 11 (16.92%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (50.77%) Selenium
2 27 (41.54%) JIRA
3 26 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 25 (38.46%) Cucumber
5 24 (36.92%) GitLab
5 24 (36.92%) REST Assured
5 24 (36.92%) SonarQube
6 14 (21.54%) Robot Framework
7 13 (20.00%) Git
8 12 (18.46%) TestRail
9 3 (4.62%) TestLink
10 2 (3.08%) SpecFlow
11 1 (1.54%) Android Studio
11 1 (1.54%) Appium
11 1 (1.54%) MSTest
11 1 (1.54%) Postman
11 1 (1.54%) SoapUI
11 1 (1.54%) TeamCity
11 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio
11 1 (1.54%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (47.69%) Social Skills
3 20 (30.77%) Law
4 13 (20.00%) Police
5 7 (10.77%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (26.15%) Java Engineer
2 11 (16.92%) Developer
3 10 (15.38%) Network Engineer
3 10 (15.38%) Test Engineer
4 8 (12.31%) Senior
5 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 7 (10.77%) Software Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Analyst
6 6 (9.23%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Designer
7 5 (7.69%) Java Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Lead
7 5 (7.69%) Lead Designer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Java Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) C# Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Release Manager
8 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (55.38%) REST
2 25 (38.46%) Java EE
3 14 (21.54%) ARM Templates
4 11 (16.92%) NETCONF
4 11 (16.92%) RESTCONF
4 11 (16.92%) SOAP
4 11 (16.92%) YANG
5 8 (12.31%) HTML
6 5 (7.69%) AngularJS
6 5 (7.69%) CSS
6 5 (7.69%) Node.js
7 2 (3.08%) .NET
7 2 (3.08%) .NET Framework
7 2 (3.08%) React
7 2 (3.08%) YAML
8 1 (1.54%) .NET Core
8 1 (1.54%) JSON
8 1 (1.54%) RESTful
8 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.15%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.62%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.23%) Linux
2 3 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (4.62%) Windows
2 3 (4.62%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.54%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (66.15%) DevOps
2 29 (44.62%) Decision-Making
3 28 (43.08%) Agile
3 28 (43.08%) Continuous Integration
4 25 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (38.46%) Software Architecture
4 25 (38.46%) Technical Leadership
5 24 (36.92%) CI/CD
5 24 (36.92%) Containerisation
5 24 (36.92%) Software Engineering
6 20 (30.77%) Scrum
7 18 (27.69%) Unit Testing
8 16 (24.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (24.62%) Integration Testing
8 16 (24.62%) Security Testing
9 15 (23.08%) Workflow
10 14 (21.54%) Configuration Management
11 13 (20.00%) Performance Testing
12 11 (16.92%) Regression Testing
13 9 (13.85%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.15%) Java
2 17 (26.15%) Python
3 14 (21.54%) SQL
4 6 (9.23%) C#
4 6 (9.23%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.69%) PHP
6 3 (4.62%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.62%) VBScript
7 1 (1.54%) Bash
7 1 (1.54%) Bicep
7 1 (1.54%) C
7 1 (1.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (47.69%) Security Cleared
2 27 (41.54%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.15%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.62%) AAT
5 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.08%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.54%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.77%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 25 (38.46%) Docker
2 3 (4.62%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (38.46%) Ansible
2 16 (24.62%) Terraform
3 14 (21.54%) Kubernetes
4 12 (18.46%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (18.46%) Podman
5 1 (1.54%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.15%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.62%) Ericsson
3 3 (4.62%) VMware
4 2 (3.08%) Adobe
5 1 (1.54%) BMC
5 1 (1.54%) Databricks
5 1 (1.54%) Google
5 1 (1.54%) Remedy
5 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow