Tester Contracts in Berkshire

Tester
South East > Berkshire

The median Tester daily rate in Berkshire is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 94 118
Rank change year-on-year -15 +24 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 12 21 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.62% 1.19% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 1.25% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 9
10th Percentile £148 £363 £387
25th Percentile £234 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -5.41% +5.71%
75th Percentile £438 £506 £575
90th Percentile - £570 -
South East median daily rate £210 £420 £413
% change year-on-year -50.00% +1.82% +8.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £10.24 - £68.08
Median hourly rate £10.30 - £68.17
75th Percentile £10.36 - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £10.30 - £18.50

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 1,801 1,681 2,267
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 94.86% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 933 1,047 1,457
10th Percentile £243 £325 £213
25th Percentile £388 £419 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +6.06% +10.00%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 59 37
10th Percentile £19.23 £17.42 £13.00
25th Percentile £42.00 £24.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £61.06 £64.68 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +207.98% -2.33%
75th Percentile £76.12 £74.90 £34.89
90th Percentile £87.53 £79.40 £67.80
South East median hourly rate £48.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +150.00% -20.00%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in Berkshire

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in Berkshire

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in Berkshire

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Tester in Berkshire

Tester
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 Tester within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 June 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 -21 9 £425 - 3
Bracknell -3 2 - -
Newbury - 1 £200 -
Tester
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 4 (33.33%) QA
2 4 (33.33%) C#
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (25.00%) JMeter
3 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (16.67%) SpecFlow
4 2 (16.67%) JIRA
4 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 2 (16.67%) Unix
4 2 (16.67%) Games
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle
4 2 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) Sprint Planning

Tester 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 1 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) BGP
1 1 (8.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (8.33%) MPLS
1 1 (8.33%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (8.33%) SMS
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JMeter
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) SpecFlow
3 1 (8.33%) Android Studio
3 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) Postman
3 1 (8.33%) Robot Framework
3 1 (8.33%) Selenium
3 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
3 1 (8.33%) TestRail
3 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
3 1 (8.33%) Xcode
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Games
3 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
1 1 (8.33%) JSON
1 1 (8.33%) NETCONF
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) RESTCONF
1 1 (8.33%) RESTful
1 1 (8.33%) SOAP
1 1 (8.33%) XML
1 1 (8.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (8.33%) PlayStation
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Android
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Performance Testing
1 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
4 1 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Defect Management
4 1 (8.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (8.33%) ETL
4 1 (8.33%) Information Security
4 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Regression Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (8.33%) Time Management
4 1 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) C#
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (8.33%) Sony