QA Jobs in Reading

Quality Assurance (QA)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 68 53
Rank change year-on-year +16 -15 -3
Permanent jobs citing QA 8 60 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 1.56% 3.47% 5.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.25% 22.64% 26.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5 30 28
10th Percentile £36,400 £36,875 £42,500
25th Percentile - £45,000 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £47,250 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -35.93% +22.92%
75th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £58,500 - -
Berkshire median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year -5.00% -11.11% +2.27%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 97 265 307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 18.87% 15.31% 19.76%
Number of salaries quoted 55 125 147
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,175 £25,000
25th Percentile £45,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,500 £45,600
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% +4.17% -17.09%
75th Percentile £83,750 £63,750 £68,125
90th Percentile £84,500 £76,250 £97,500
Berkshire median annual salary £72,500 £52,500 £45,600
% change year-on-year +38.10% +15.13% -17.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Reading

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Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for QA in Reading

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Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Reading over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
1 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
3 1 (12.50%) Bugzilla
3 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
3 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Health Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) QA Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) Playwright
2 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 1 (12.50%) NHS
1 1 (12.50%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Validation
3 2 (25.00%) API Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) User Stories
4 1 (12.50%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Experience
4 1 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Internal Audit
4 1 (12.50%) Issue Tracking
4 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) SDET
4 1 (12.50%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Groovy
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) R
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO 14001
1 1 (12.50%) ISO 22301
1 1 (12.50%) ISO 9001
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NEBOSH
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Packer
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) AppDynamics
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) BT
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft