Test Automation Jobs in Berkshire

Automated Testing
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 86 36
Rank change year-on-year -27 -50 -4
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 9 78 236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.57% 2.47% 7.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 2.91% 8.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7 48 94
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,250 - £90,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% +2.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Test Automation 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 1,472 2,678 2,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.46% 84.88% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 522 1,800 1,590
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £38,183 £38,603 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £53,131 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -11.45% +3.45%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,625 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Berkshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Berkshire

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Berkshire

Test Automation
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Reading +17 7 £70,500 +12.80% 81
Maidenhead - 1 £80,000 - 9
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (22.22%) AWS KMS
3 2 (22.22%) Route 53
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (22.22%) DynamoDB
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
2 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (22.22%) DbUnit
3 2 (22.22%) jMock
3 2 (22.22%) JUnit
3 2 (22.22%) Maven
3 2 (22.22%) Mockito
4 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
4 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Design Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Junior
3 1 (11.11%) PCB Design Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) PCB Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Software Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
1 2 (22.22%) Bootstrap
1 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
1 2 (22.22%) JPA
1 2 (22.22%) PowerMock
1 2 (22.22%) RESTful
1 2 (22.22%) SOAP
1 2 (22.22%) Spring
1 2 (22.22%) Spring Batch
1 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
1 2 (22.22%) Spring Integration
1 2 (22.22%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
2 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) MERN Stack
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Architecture
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) BDD
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Kanban
4 2 (22.22%) Open Source
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) SDLC
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) TDD
4 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
5 1 (11.11%) API Design
5 1 (11.11%) API Integration
5 1 (11.11%) Fintech
5 1 (11.11%) Issue Tracking
5 1 (11.11%) Scorecard
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Groovy
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) MATLAB
3 1 (11.11%) Perl
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) AppDynamics
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft