QA Job Trends in Reading

Quality Assurance (QA)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 51 45
Rank change year-on-year +17 -6 +19
Permanent jobs citing QA 18 25 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 3.09% 3.46% 5.46%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.33% 23.81% 42.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15 5 17
10th Percentile - - £48,000
25th Percentile £39,625 £45,000 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -20.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £58,750 £111,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £127,000 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £55,250 £51,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.80% -14.58% +4.35%

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 54 105 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 9.26% 14.52% 12.86%
Number of salaries quoted 39 36 65
10th Percentile £39,625 £38,631 £38,130
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,938 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +33.83%
75th Percentile £68,670 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £85,000 £86,200
Berkshire median annual salary £57,500 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -23.33% +25.00% +16.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

QA job vacancy trend in Reading

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Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing QA

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Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Reading over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for QA in Reading

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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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
1 2 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Selenium
2 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 3 (16.67%) Postman
2 3 (16.67%) SoapUI
3 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
3 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Applications Support
2 5 (27.78%) Applications Support Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Support Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Quality Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) QA Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) Audio Visual Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Automation Tester
6 1 (5.56%) Field Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Automation Tester
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Tester
6 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) pytest
1 3 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (5.56%) CSS
2 1 (5.56%) Express.js
2 1 (5.56%) Next.js
2 1 (5.56%) Node.js
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) RESTful
2 1 (5.56%) Sequelize
2 1 (5.56%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Client/Server
1 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
1 1 (5.56%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Test Automation
2 7 (38.89%) Agile
2 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 6 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 6 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 6 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 6 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 6 (33.33%) Validation
4 4 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
4 4 (22.22%) User Stories
5 3 (16.67%) Batch Processing
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (16.67%) Fintech
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) QA Automation
6 2 (11.11%) ATDD
6 2 (11.11%) BDD
6 2 (11.11%) Coaching
6 2 (11.11%) Open Source
6 2 (11.11%) Operational Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Java
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 3 (16.67%) Go
3 3 (16.67%) PHP
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) C
4 1 (5.56%) C++
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) Rust
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) SLA
2 3 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.56%) KVM
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) VMware