QA Jobs in Reading

Quality Assurance (QA)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 57 43
Rank change year-on-year -4 -14 -3
Permanent jobs citing QA 63 85 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 3.69% 5.26% 5.51%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.20% 24.85% 30.00%
Number of salaries quoted 33 31 45
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £93,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £60,000 £100,000 £91,000
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Reading

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 250 342 320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 14.63% 21.15% 18.37%
Number of salaries quoted 119 158 181
10th Percentile £29,175 £27,675 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.65% -17.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £91,250 £80,000
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £45,600 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.61% -17.09% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Reading

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Salary Trend in Reading

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in Reading.

Salary trend for QA in Reading

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Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Reading over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.05%) Azure
1 12 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (7.94%) GitHub
3 4 (6.35%) Serverless
4 3 (4.76%) SaaS
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.59%) AWS
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.59%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.59%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) Oracle Database
1 3 (4.76%) RDBMS
1 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (14.29%) Git
1 9 (14.29%) TestRail
2 7 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 7 (11.11%) JIRA
3 6 (9.52%) Bugzilla
3 6 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.52%) Zephyr
4 3 (4.76%) JDeveloper
5 2 (3.17%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.17%) Postman
5 2 (3.17%) REST Assured
5 2 (3.17%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.59%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.59%) Selenium
6 1 (1.59%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (41.27%) Social Skills
2 18 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (22.22%) Manufacturing
4 7 (11.11%) Back Office
4 7 (11.11%) Police
4 7 (11.11%) Retail
5 2 (3.17%) Finance
5 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.59%) Electronics
6 1 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (23.81%) Developer
1 15 (23.81%) Software Developer
2 10 (15.87%) Analyst
3 8 (12.70%) Test Analyst
4 7 (11.11%) Administrator
4 7 (11.11%) QA Specialist
4 7 (11.11%) QA Technician
4 7 (11.11%) ServiceNow Administrator
4 7 (11.11%) Systems Developer
5 6 (9.52%) Developer in Test
5 6 (9.52%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
5 6 (9.52%) JavaScript Developer
6 5 (7.94%) Lead
7 4 (6.35%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Ruby Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Data Manager
9 2 (3.17%) Senior
9 2 (3.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.63%) Web Services
2 7 (11.11%) .NET
2 7 (11.11%) .NET Core
2 7 (11.11%) CSS
3 5 (7.94%) Playwright
4 3 (4.76%) Node.js
4 3 (4.76%) React
4 3 (4.76%) REST
5 2 (3.17%) Laravel
6 1 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.59%) JSON
6 1 (1.59%) Middleware
6 1 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.59%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Client/Server
1 6 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.17%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (3.17%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.59%) Life Science
3 1 (1.59%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (33.33%) Agile
2 19 (30.16%) Test Automation
3 16 (25.40%) DevOps
4 15 (23.81%) Test Management
5 14 (22.22%) Chemistry
5 14 (22.22%) Coaching
5 14 (22.22%) Data Analysis
6 13 (20.63%) Actionable Insight
7 12 (19.05%) Roadmaps
8 11 (17.46%) Requirements Gathering
9 9 (14.29%) Agile Testing
9 9 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
9 9 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 9 (14.29%) Software Testing
9 9 (14.29%) Test Assurance
9 9 (14.29%) Test Planning
10 8 (12.70%) CI/CD
10 8 (12.70%) CRM
10 8 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (12.70%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.46%) JavaScript
2 9 (14.29%) C#
3 6 (9.52%) Java
3 6 (9.52%) TypeScript
4 4 (6.35%) Perl
4 4 (6.35%) Python
5 3 (4.76%) Bash
5 3 (4.76%) Go
5 3 (4.76%) Ruby
6 2 (3.17%) PHP
7 1 (1.59%) Groovy
7 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (26.98%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.29%) ISTQB
2 9 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 8 (12.70%) DV Cleared
4 7 (11.11%) DBS Check
4 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.17%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.59%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.59%) Ansible
2 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Packer
2 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.94%) HP
4 3 (4.76%) Oracle
5 1 (1.59%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.59%) IBM
5 1 (1.59%) SAP