Test Strategy Contracts in Reading

Test Strategy
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Test Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Strategy over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 81 84
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 -26
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 4 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% 0.77% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.86% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 11
10th Percentile £411 - £413
25th Percentile £484 £556 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £563 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £569 £594
90th Percentile £635 - £650
Berkshire median daily rate £494 £513 £463
% change year-on-year -3.66% +10.81% -7.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Test Strategy 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 1,064 934 1,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.02% 90.42% 90.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 631 818
10th Percentile £213 £369 £246
25th Percentile £413 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £671 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 23 8
10th Percentile £20.17 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.65 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +132.14% -21.13%
75th Percentile £80.69 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.49 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.57 £56.89 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.48% +170.24% -

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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 6 May 2024.

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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Maya
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Service Operations Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Life Science
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) HL7