Test Automation Contracts in Wokingham

Automated Testing
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wokingham requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation 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 17 18 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 13 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wokingham 7.34% 2.86% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.88% 2.94% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £365 £610 -
25th Percentile £388 £613 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £623 £575
Median % change year-on-year -32.73% +8.26% -
75th Percentile £458 £628 £588
90th Percentile £483 £629 -
Berkshire median daily rate £638 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +6.25% +9.09% +8.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wokingham

Test Automation 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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 165 68 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 93.22% 97.14% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 55 40
10th Percentile £350 £310 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £619
90th Percentile £675 £680 £754
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.13
Median hourly rate £14.30 - £27.25
75th Percentile - - £28.38
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wokingham.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Wokingham

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Wokingham.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Wokingham

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Wokingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Wokingham

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wokingham 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure API Management
2 1 (7.69%) Azure App Service
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) IaaS
2 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Selenium
2 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) NUnit
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) SCADA Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Test Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Automation Tester
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Functional Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) React Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Test Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (7.69%) OpenID
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Algorithms
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
3 3 (23.08%) Operational Technology
3 3 (23.08%) SCADA
4 1 (7.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Data Modelling
1 8 (61.54%) Exploratory Testing
1 8 (61.54%) Mathematics
1 8 (61.54%) Optimization Problems
1 8 (61.54%) Scenario Testing
2 7 (53.85%) Data Collection
2 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (46.15%) Functional Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) Cartography
5 3 (23.08%) Test Scripting
6 2 (15.38%) DevOps
7 1 (7.69%) Analytics
7 1 (7.69%) Data Management
7 1 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
7 1 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (7.69%) Software Delivery
7 1 (7.69%) Statistical Computing
7 1 (7.69%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 3 (23.08%) Perl
4 3 (23.08%) PL/SQL
5 2 (15.38%) C#
6 1 (7.69%) Bicep
6 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Degree
2 5 (38.46%) Master's Degree
3 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (61.54%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft