Software Testing Jobs in Berkshire

Software Testing
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 62 104
Rank change year-on-year -14 +42 -17
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 94 157 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.05% 4.94% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 5.17% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 84 74 69
10th Percentile £34,500 £34,875 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,156 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £52,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +3.96% -1.46%
75th Percentile £71,563 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,500 £83,750 £72,150
South East median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +10.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Software Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,666 3,034 3,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.42% 95.41% 91.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,852 1,662 1,997
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £42,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £58,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% +2.17% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,000 £92,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Berkshire

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in Berkshire.

Salary trend for Software Testing in Berkshire

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in Berkshire

Software Testing
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +25 74 £58,000 +28.89% 12
Slough -7 13 £67,500 - 1
Newbury +12 3 £42,000 -16.00% 1
Bracknell -1 2 £34,000 -51.43%
Crowthorne - 1 £42,500 -
Maidenhead - 1 - - 1
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
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 (7.45%) Apache
2 3 (3.19%) WinCC
3 1 (1.06%) Confluence
3 1 (1.06%) Moodle
3 1 (1.06%) Totara
Applications
1 11 (11.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (22.34%) AWS
2 12 (12.77%) GitHub
3 8 (8.51%) SaaS
4 7 (7.45%) Azure
5 6 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.06%) GCP
6 1 (1.06%) IaaS
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.70%) LAN
2 4 (4.26%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.06%) GPRS
3 1 (1.06%) MQTT
3 1 (1.06%) Network Security
3 1 (1.06%) RS-232
3 1 (1.06%) RS-485
3 1 (1.06%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.83%) OLTP
2 1 (1.06%) Big Data
2 1 (1.06%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (24.47%) Jenkins
2 15 (15.96%) Cucumber
2 15 (15.96%) Selenium
3 14 (14.89%) JIRA
4 9 (9.57%) GitLab
4 9 (9.57%) Visual Studio
5 8 (8.51%) JUnit
5 8 (8.51%) REST Assured
5 8 (8.51%) TestNG
5 8 (8.51%) WebDriver
6 7 (7.45%) Bitbucket Server
6 7 (7.45%) JMeter
6 7 (7.45%) Serenity BDD
7 6 (6.38%) Bitbucket
7 6 (6.38%) Bugzilla
7 6 (6.38%) SoapUI
7 6 (6.38%) Zephyr
8 5 (5.32%) Cypress.io
8 5 (5.32%) Git
9 2 (2.13%) Postman
General
1 20 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.77%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (4.26%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.19%) Electronics
5 1 (1.06%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.06%) Finance
5 1 (1.06%) Marketing
5 1 (1.06%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (23.40%) Developer
2 20 (21.28%) Senior
3 13 (13.83%) Oracle Developer
3 13 (13.83%) Senior Developer
3 13 (13.83%) Senior Oracle Developer
3 13 (13.83%) Tester
4 12 (12.77%) Automation Tester
5 11 (11.70%) Desktop Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) Desktop Support
5 11 (11.70%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
5 11 (11.70%) Support Engineer
6 9 (9.57%) Architect
6 9 (9.57%) Developer in Test
6 9 (9.57%) Software Architect
6 9 (9.57%) Software Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) Research Software Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) Senior SQL Developer
7 7 (7.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.21%) SOAP
2 15 (15.96%) Web Services
3 13 (13.83%) HTML
3 13 (13.83%) XML
4 8 (8.51%) REST
5 7 (7.45%) Apache Commons
5 7 (7.45%) Guava
5 7 (7.45%) Java Concurrency
5 7 (7.45%) WireMock
6 6 (6.38%) OpenMP
6 6 (6.38%) RESTful
7 5 (5.32%) Playwright
8 3 (3.19%) Middleware
9 2 (2.13%) Gherkin
10 1 (1.06%) Celery
10 1 (1.06%) Kafka
10 1 (1.06%) React
10 1 (1.06%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.83%) Algorithms
1 13 (13.83%) Product Ownership
2 10 (10.64%) Driving Licence
3 6 (6.38%) Client/Server
3 6 (6.38%) CUDA
3 6 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.19%) SCADA
5 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.06%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.06%) IoT
5 1 (1.06%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.06%) Life Science
5 1 (1.06%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 26 (27.66%) Linux
2 14 (14.89%) Unix
3 12 (12.77%) Windows
4 11 (11.70%) Windows 10
4 11 (11.70%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.06%) CentOS
5 1 (1.06%) Debian
5 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.06%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (42.55%) Agile
2 32 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (27.66%) CI/CD
4 25 (26.60%) Computer Science
5 24 (25.53%) SDET
6 22 (23.40%) Physics
7 19 (20.21%) DevOps
7 19 (20.21%) Test Automation
8 17 (18.09%) Containerisation
9 13 (13.83%) Code Quality
9 13 (13.83%) Mathematics
9 13 (13.83%) Scrum
9 13 (13.83%) Test Management
10 12 (12.77%) Service Delivery
10 12 (12.77%) Software Engineering
11 11 (11.70%) Customer Requirements
11 11 (11.70%) Customer Service
11 11 (11.70%) ITIL
11 11 (11.70%) Software Deployment
12 9 (9.57%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (36.17%) SQL
2 25 (26.60%) Python
3 22 (23.40%) Fortran
4 18 (19.15%) C++
5 17 (18.09%) Java
6 15 (15.96%) JavaScript
6 15 (15.96%) PL/SQL
7 14 (14.89%) C
8 13 (13.83%) Bash
9 11 (11.70%) C#
9 11 (11.70%) Groovy
10 6 (6.38%) Perl
10 6 (6.38%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.06%) Go
Qualifications
1 53 (56.38%) Security Cleared
2 29 (30.85%) Degree
3 23 (24.47%) SC Cleared
4 13 (13.83%) PhD
5 11 (11.70%) DV Cleared
6 7 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (7.45%) Master's Degree
7 5 (5.32%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.06%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.70%) QA
2 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.06%) JTAG
2 1 (1.06%) SLA
2 1 (1.06%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (21.28%) Docker
2 15 (15.96%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (22.34%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.77%) Terraform
3 11 (11.70%) SCCM
4 5 (5.32%) HP Quality Center
5 3 (3.19%) Ansible
5 3 (3.19%) Wonderware InTouch
6 1 (1.06%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.06%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (40.43%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.02%) HP
3 15 (15.96%) Oracle
4 3 (3.19%) AVEVA
4 3 (3.19%) Rockwell
4 3 (3.19%) Siemens
4 3 (3.19%) Wonderware
5 1 (1.06%) Google