QA Jobs in Berkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 65 33
Rank change year-on-year -27 -32 +24
Permanent jobs citing QA 35 112 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.12% 3.47% 7.73%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.50% 25.17% 35.94%
Number of salaries quoted 5 67 60
10th Percentile £36,400 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile - £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £68,000 £58,500 £100,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Berkshire

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 280 445 651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.98% 13.79% 21.49%
Number of salaries quoted 107 250 275
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,975 £28,000
25th Percentile £43,125 £36,250 £37,815
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £45,600
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +15.13% -17.09%
75th Percentile £83,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile - £92,500 £92,500
South East median annual salary £62,000 £45,125 £51,000
% change year-on-year +37.40% -11.52% -2.86%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Berkshire

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Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for QA in Berkshire

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Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Berkshire

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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 within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Slough -21 12 - - 14
Windsor -25 8 - - 1
Maidenhead - 8 - - 5
Reading +6 6 £46,000 -4.59% 20
QA
South East

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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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 25 (71.43%) AWS
2 24 (68.57%) Azure
2 24 (68.57%) GCP
2 24 (68.57%) Snowflake
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.86%) IaaS
3 1 (2.86%) PaaS
3 1 (2.86%) SaaS
3 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (68.57%) Data Lake
1 24 (68.57%) Data Warehouse
1 24 (68.57%) Metadata
2 1 (2.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
2 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (68.57%) Law
2 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Marketing
4 1 (2.86%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (80.00%) Senior
2 26 (74.29%) Lead
3 4 (11.43%) QA Specialist
3 4 (11.43%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (5.71%) Administrator
4 2 (5.71%) Salesforce Administrator
5 1 (2.86%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) QA Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) QA Officer
5 1 (2.86%) Systems Delivery Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.86%) JSON
1 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (2.86%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
1 1 (2.86%) NHS
1 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (77.14%) Validation
2 25 (71.43%) Matrix Organization
3 24 (68.57%) Analytics
3 24 (68.57%) Anomaly Detection
3 24 (68.57%) Asset Management
3 24 (68.57%) Data Architecture
3 24 (68.57%) Data Engineering
3 24 (68.57%) Data Governance
3 24 (68.57%) Data Management
3 24 (68.57%) Data Modelling
3 24 (68.57%) Data Pipeline
3 24 (68.57%) Data Stewardship
3 24 (68.57%) Data Strategy
3 24 (68.57%) Data Transformation
3 24 (68.57%) Data Validation
3 24 (68.57%) ETL
3 24 (68.57%) Master Data Management
3 24 (68.57%) Metadata Management
3 24 (68.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (68.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 25 (71.43%) Python
2 24 (68.57%) SQL
3 2 (5.71%) Java
4 1 (2.86%) Groovy
4 1 (2.86%) Perl
4 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (80.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (68.57%) Accessibility
1 24 (68.57%) Data Quality
2 4 (11.43%) GMP
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) ISO 14001
3 1 (2.86%) ISO 22301
3 1 (2.86%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) NEBOSH
3 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Ansible
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.86%) Packer
1 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics
2 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.86%) BT
2 1 (2.86%) IBM
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle