QA Jobs in Berkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 31 55
Rank change year-on-year -32 +24 -20
Permanent jobs citing QA 118 257 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.81% 8.08% 4.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 27.70% 35.01% 30.71%
Number of salaries quoted 68 72 102
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,525 £32,813
25th Percentile £42,125 £47,500 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £57,500 £84,063 £71,250
90th Percentile £66,500 £99,625 £84,625
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 426 734 547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.74% 23.08% 16.09%
Number of salaries quoted 251 303 334
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,800 £27,375
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,713 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.61% -17.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,250 £82,500
South East median annual salary £46,250 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +5.00%

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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 26 April 2024.

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 26 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 -4 64 £50,000 -31.03% 11
Bracknell +12 21 £55,000 +4.76% 1
Windsor -7 7 £35,000 -25.53%
Hungerford - 6 £50,000 -
Wokingham - 4 £40,000 - 3
Slough -20 3 £26,000 -52.73% 3
Newbury +17 2 £34,000 -53.10% 1
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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (9.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (8.47%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (5.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.85%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.10%) Azure
2 18 (15.25%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (4.24%) AWS
5 5 (4.24%) GitHub
5 5 (4.24%) Serverless
6 4 (3.39%) SaaS
7 2 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.85%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.85%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.85%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.85%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.85%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) DHCP
1 1 (0.85%) DNS
1 1 (0.85%) MQTT
1 1 (0.85%) RS-485
1 1 (0.85%) VLAN
1 1 (0.85%) VPN
1 1 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (4.24%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.39%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.54%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.54%) RDBMS
4 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.69%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.85%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.85%) Power BI
6 1 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (11.02%) Git
2 11 (9.32%) JIRA
3 9 (7.63%) Cypress.io
3 9 (7.63%) TestRail
4 7 (5.93%) Jenkins
5 6 (5.08%) Bugzilla
5 6 (5.08%) Zephyr
6 4 (3.39%) Selenium
6 4 (3.39%) SoapUI
7 3 (2.54%) JDeveloper
8 2 (1.69%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.69%) Burp Suite
8 2 (1.69%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.69%) Postman
8 2 (1.69%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.69%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.69%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.85%) GitLab
9 1 (0.85%) Maven
General
1 53 (44.92%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (23.73%) Retail
3 15 (12.71%) Manufacturing
4 13 (11.02%) Legal
5 10 (8.47%) Finance
6 7 (5.93%) Back Office
6 7 (5.93%) Police
7 6 (5.08%) Multimedia
8 3 (2.54%) Electronics
8 3 (2.54%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.85%) Automotive
10 1 (0.85%) Billing
10 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (19.49%) Developer
2 15 (12.71%) Software Developer
3 13 (11.02%) QA Engineer
4 12 (10.17%) Lead
5 11 (9.32%) Analyst
6 10 (8.47%) Quality Manager
7 9 (7.63%) Software Engineer
8 8 (6.78%) Coordinator
8 8 (6.78%) Test Analyst
9 7 (5.93%) Administrator
9 7 (5.93%) QA Specialist
9 7 (5.93%) QA Technician
9 7 (5.93%) ServiceNow Administrator
9 7 (5.93%) Systems Developer
10 6 (5.08%) Developer in Test
10 6 (5.08%) Digital Developer
10 6 (5.08%) Digital Learning Developer
10 6 (5.08%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
10 6 (5.08%) Senior
10 6 (5.08%) Service Delivery Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.41%) .NET
2 13 (11.02%) .NET Core
2 13 (11.02%) Web Services
3 9 (7.63%) CSS
4 6 (5.08%) ASP.NET
5 5 (4.24%) Playwright
5 5 (4.24%) React
6 4 (3.39%) Middleware
7 3 (2.54%) Node.js
7 3 (2.54%) REST
8 2 (1.69%) Blazor
8 2 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.69%) Jest
8 2 (1.69%) JSON
8 2 (1.69%) Laravel
8 2 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.69%) Razor View Engine
9 1 (0.85%) LDAP
9 1 (0.85%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.86%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.78%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.08%) Client/Server
3 6 (5.08%) e-Learning
3 6 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.08%) Learning Management System
3 6 (5.08%) SCORM
4 4 (3.39%) IoT
5 3 (2.54%) SCADA
6 2 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.69%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Life Science
7 1 (0.85%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.54%) Linux
2 1 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (34.75%) Agile
2 28 (23.73%) Test Automation
3 26 (22.03%) DevOps
4 19 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (13.56%) Test Management
6 15 (12.71%) Service Delivery
7 14 (11.86%) Chemistry
7 14 (11.86%) Coaching
7 14 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (11.86%) Data Analysis
8 13 (11.02%) Actionable Insight
8 13 (11.02%) Clean Code
8 13 (11.02%) Software Engineering
9 12 (10.17%) Project Management
9 12 (10.17%) Roadmaps
9 12 (10.17%) Scrum
9 12 (10.17%) Test Scripting
10 11 (9.32%) CI/CD
10 11 (9.32%) Requirements Gathering
10 11 (9.32%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.64%) JavaScript
2 20 (16.95%) SQL
3 19 (16.10%) C#
4 10 (8.47%) TypeScript
5 8 (6.78%) Java
5 8 (6.78%) Python
6 6 (5.08%) VB.NET
7 5 (4.24%) Perl
8 3 (2.54%) Bash
8 3 (2.54%) Go
8 3 (2.54%) Ruby
9 2 (1.69%) PHP
10 1 (0.85%) C
10 1 (0.85%) C++
10 1 (0.85%) Groovy
10 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (27.97%) Degree
2 19 (16.10%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.47%) ISTQB
4 9 (7.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 9 (7.63%) SC Cleared
5 8 (6.78%) DV Cleared
6 7 (5.93%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.93%) ISO 14001
1 7 (5.93%) ISO 22301
1 7 (5.93%) ISO 9001
1 7 (5.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (5.93%) NEBOSH
2 4 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.69%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (4.24%) Docker
2 3 (2.54%) Firmware
3 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (4.24%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.69%) Ansible
3 2 (1.69%) Terraform
4 1 (0.85%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.85%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.93%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.24%) HP
4 4 (3.39%) Oracle
5 2 (1.69%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.69%) Dell
6 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.85%) IBM
6 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.85%) SAP