Test Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Test Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Test Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 97 116
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 21 18 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.09% 1.02% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.07% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 4
10th Percentile £315 £400 £378
25th Percentile £338 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% +15.65%
75th Percentile £438 £519 £453
90th Percentile - £522 £481
South East median daily rate £426 £438 £450
% change year-on-year -2.57% -2.78% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,793 1,675 2,248
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.39% 94.90% 95.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 953 1,058 1,455
10th Percentile £243 £325 £225
25th Percentile £385 £425 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +6.06% +8.73%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £586
90th Percentile £688 £703 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 56 37
10th Percentile £18.60 £18.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £24.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £58.30 £61.71 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% +193.87% -0.24%
75th Percentile £70.39 £74.20 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.73 £79.72 £73.11
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.04% +147.50% -20.00%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Berkshire

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in Berkshire

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in Berkshire

Test Engineer
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 Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 23 May 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 -4 12 £425 +1.49% 5
Slough +15 5 £300 -41.46% 1
Bracknell +3 2 - -
Newbury -1 2 - -
Test Engineer
South East

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Test Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (61.90%) MPLS
1 13 (61.90%) BGP
1 13 (61.90%) JIRA
2 11 (52.38%) SQL
3 8 (38.10%) Python
3 8 (38.10%) Telecoms
4 7 (33.33%) Workflow
4 7 (33.33%) Agile
4 7 (33.33%) Performance Testing
4 7 (33.33%) Security Testing
4 7 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 7 (33.33%) Integration Testing
4 7 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 7 (33.33%) VPN
4 7 (33.33%) Apache
4 7 (33.33%) SOAP
4 7 (33.33%) Regression Testing
4 7 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (33.33%) Scrum
4 7 (33.33%) MongoDB
4 7 (33.33%) NoSQL
4 7 (33.33%) REST
4 7 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
4 7 (33.33%) Docker
4 7 (33.33%) GitLab
4 7 (33.33%) Robot Framework
4 7 (33.33%) TestRail
4 7 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
4 7 (33.33%) CI/CD

Test Engineer Skill Set
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 7 (33.33%) Apache
1 7 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Communications & Networking
1 13 (61.90%) BGP
1 13 (61.90%) MPLS
2 7 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
2 7 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
2 7 (33.33%) VPN
3 2 (9.52%) tcpdump
3 2 (9.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 7 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 7 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (61.90%) JIRA
2 7 (33.33%) GitLab
2 7 (33.33%) Robot Framework
2 7 (33.33%) TestRail
3 1 (4.76%) Git
3 1 (4.76%) Selenium
General
1 8 (38.10%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) NETCONF
1 7 (33.33%) REST
1 7 (33.33%) RESTCONF
1 7 (33.33%) SOAP
1 7 (33.33%) YANG
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Linux
2 4 (19.05%) Unix
3 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Agile
1 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 7 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 7 (33.33%) Performance Testing
1 7 (33.33%) Regression Testing
1 7 (33.33%) Scrum
1 7 (33.33%) Security Testing
1 7 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 7 (33.33%) Unit Testing
1 7 (33.33%) Workflow
2 6 (28.57%) Migration
2 6 (28.57%) MoSCoW
2 6 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
3 5 (23.81%) Software Testing
4 4 (19.05%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (19.05%) System Integration Testing
5 2 (9.52%) Functional Testing
6 1 (4.76%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (4.76%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) SQL
2 8 (38.10%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Juniper