QA Automation Job Trends in Reading

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring QA Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - 96
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 3 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.60% - 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% - 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £60,000
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median annual salary £57,500 - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

QA 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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 435 948 1,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 87.70% 80.41% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 256 448 618
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £40,080
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,513 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +4.57% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,813 £75,000 £72,188
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
Berkshire median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% -8.33%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing QA Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Reading.

QA Automation job vacancy trend in Reading

QA Automation
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing QA Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing QA Automation

QA Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) QA Engineer
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%) 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