Exploratory Testing Job Trends in Berkshire

Exploratory Testing
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.049% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £63,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £81,250
% change year-on-year +17.65% -47.69% +47.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Exploratory Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,793 1,943 1,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.24% 80.86% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 692 1,055 1,318
10th Percentile £27,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,402 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in Berkshire

Exploratory Testing
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Exploratory Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Exploratory Testing

Exploratory 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 Exploratory Testing within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 8 September 2025. 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 - 1 £57,500 - 2
Exploratory Testing
South East

Exploratory 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) ATDD
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA