Test Automation Contracts in Berkshire

Automated Testing
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 60 54
Rank change year-on-year +23 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 86 60 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.37% 3.34% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.06% 3.69% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 47 51
10th Percentile £386 £342 £338
25th Percentile £500 £438 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% -7.08% +17.40%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £638
90th Percentile £693 £638 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £482
% change year-on-year -0.20% +3.86% +1.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,419 1,626 2,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.63% 90.48% 89.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 760 996 1,292
10th Percentile £325 £249 £307
25th Percentile £425 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £516 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% +3.25% +5.93%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £511 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 70 28
10th Percentile £19.34 £18.95 £20.18
25th Percentile £41.25 £45.21 £21.00
Median hourly rate £58.49 £61.45 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +21.68% +117.20%
75th Percentile £63.41 £72.25 £77.44
90th Percentile £75.13 £77.27 £96.63
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £52.30 £37.13
% change year-on-year +11.47% +40.86% +35.02%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Berkshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Berkshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Berkshire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Berkshire

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +16 72 £625 +8.70% 2
Bracknell +16 9 £425 -
Slough +4 5 - -
Wokingham -4 3 £160 -
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 4 (4.65%) CMS
2 3 (3.49%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (47.67%) Azure
2 27 (31.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 22 (25.58%) Azure Data Factory
3 22 (25.58%) Azure Monitor
4 21 (24.42%) Azure Functions
4 21 (24.42%) Serverless
5 13 (15.12%) Entra ID
6 10 (11.63%) Azure Key Vault
7 9 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (8.14%) AWS
9 6 (6.98%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (5.81%) Azure Storage
10 5 (5.81%) OCI
11 4 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (4.65%) GCP
12 1 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (1.16%) Amazon EMR
12 1 (1.16%) Amazon S3
12 1 (1.16%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (1.16%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (16.28%) MPLS
2 12 (13.95%) BGP
3 10 (11.63%) VPN
4 8 (9.30%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (4.65%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.65%) VLAN
6 3 (3.49%) Firewall
6 3 (3.49%) LAN
6 3 (3.49%) WAN
7 2 (2.33%) 5G
7 2 (2.33%) LTE
7 2 (2.33%) SNMP
7 2 (2.33%) VoIP
7 2 (2.33%) Wireless
7 2 (2.33%) Wireshark
8 1 (1.16%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.58%) NoSQL
2 9 (10.47%) MongoDB
3 6 (6.98%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 30 (34.88%) Selenium
2 22 (25.58%) Git
3 15 (17.44%) GitLab
4 13 (15.12%) JIRA
5 6 (6.98%) Robot Framework
6 4 (4.65%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.65%) Jenkins
6 4 (4.65%) TestLink
6 4 (4.65%) Visual Studio
7 3 (3.49%) JMeter
7 3 (3.49%) Maven
8 2 (2.33%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.16%) SpecFlow
General
1 19 (22.09%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (18.60%) Social Skills
3 15 (17.44%) Telecoms
4 12 (13.95%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.47%) Electronics
5 9 (10.47%) Finance
5 9 (10.47%) Manufacturing
5 9 (10.47%) Marketing
6 1 (1.16%) Banking
6 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (30.23%) Developer
2 18 (20.93%) Full-Stack Developer
3 16 (18.60%) Azure Developer
4 13 (15.12%) Tester
5 12 (13.95%) Automation Tester
6 10 (11.63%) Architect
7 9 (10.47%) Active Directory Architect
8 8 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (8.14%) Lead
9 7 (8.14%) Senior
10 5 (5.81%) Consultant
10 5 (5.81%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 5 (5.81%) Python Developer
11 4 (4.65%) .NET Developer
11 4 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Ericsson Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (4.65%) Network Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Oracle Specialist
11 4 (4.65%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (24.42%) React
2 10 (11.63%) Gherkin
3 9 (10.47%) AngularJS
4 8 (9.30%) .NET
4 8 (9.30%) NETCONF
4 8 (9.30%) REST
4 8 (9.30%) RESTCONF
4 8 (9.30%) SOAP
4 8 (9.30%) YANG
5 7 (8.14%) .NET Framework
5 7 (8.14%) Entity Framework
6 5 (5.81%) GraphQL
6 5 (5.81%) Node.js
7 4 (4.65%) CSS
7 4 (4.65%) HTML
8 3 (3.49%) ADO
8 3 (3.49%) RFC 2544
9 2 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.33%) Kafka
9 2 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.95%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.98%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (4.65%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.65%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.49%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.49%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.63%) Linux
2 9 (10.47%) Windows
3 8 (9.30%) CentOS
3 8 (9.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (58.14%) Agile
2 40 (46.51%) CI/CD
3 31 (36.05%) DevOps
4 19 (22.09%) SDLC
5 18 (20.93%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (20.93%) Unit Testing
6 16 (18.60%) Microservices
7 15 (17.44%) Product Backlog
7 15 (17.44%) Test Strategy
8 14 (16.28%) Scrum
9 12 (13.95%) Containerisation
9 12 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (12.79%) Change Management
11 10 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (10.47%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (10.47%) Design Patterns
12 9 (10.47%) Digital Marketing
12 9 (10.47%) Identity Access Management
12 9 (10.47%) Programme Management
12 9 (10.47%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 42 (48.84%) Python
2 27 (31.40%) Java
3 14 (16.28%) SQL
4 13 (15.12%) JavaScript
5 10 (11.63%) C#
6 9 (10.47%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.81%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (4.65%) PHP
8 4 (4.65%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.33%) Bicep
9 2 (2.33%) C
9 2 (2.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.47%) DV Cleared
3 8 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.65%) AAT
4 4 (4.65%) ISEB
4 4 (4.65%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.49%) CCNA
5 3 (3.49%) CCNP
5 3 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.30%) QA
System Software
1 26 (30.23%) Active Directory
2 12 (13.95%) Docker
3 2 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (17.44%) Ansible
2 14 (16.28%) Terraform
3 13 (15.12%) Kubernetes
4 9 (10.47%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.33%) Rancher
6 1 (1.16%) Grafana
6 1 (1.16%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 12 (13.95%) Oracle
2 11 (12.79%) Cisco
2 11 (12.79%) VMware
3 10 (11.63%) SAP
4 8 (9.30%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.65%) Adobe
5 4 (4.65%) Ericsson
5 4 (4.65%) Fujitsu
5 4 (4.65%) Google
5 4 (4.65%) Optimizely
6 3 (3.49%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.16%) Databricks
7 1 (1.16%) HP
7 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.16%) Snow