QA Automation Engineer Job Trends in Berkshire

Automation QA Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Automation QA Engineer salary in Berkshire is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 - 135
Rank change year-on-year - - +53
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 3 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.16% - 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% - 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - £54,000
25th Percentile £56,250 - £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - £64,375
South East median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year +21.05% -19.15% +6.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,761 2,114 1,799
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.03% 95.79% 93.36%
Number of salaries quoted 776 1,141 1,185
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £39,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £54,763
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +9.56% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,375 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £54,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.24% -0.45% -

QA Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'QA Automation Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

QA Automation Engineer job vacancy trend in Berkshire

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for QA Automation Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Salary distribution trend for QA Automation Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire

QA Automation Engineer
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 21 October 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 - 3 £57,500 - 1
QA Automation Engineer
South East

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 21 October 2025, QA Automation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Berkshire region featuring QA Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Fintech
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
1 3 (100.00%) pytest
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) pytest
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 3 (100.00%) Fintech
1 3 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA