Software Testing Jobs in Reading

Software Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 48 74
Rank change year-on-year -11 +26 +20
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 8 74 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 1.57% 4.33% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 4.90% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 6 67 46
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,500 -
25th Percentile £43,438 £39,500 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £45,250
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +28.18% -9.50%
75th Percentile £59,587 £75,000 £76,875
90th Percentile £60,283 £81,750 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £67,500 £59,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.41% +2.61% +13.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Software Testing 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 1,509 1,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 85.13% 88.30% 97.03%
Number of salaries quoted 233 917 817
10th Percentile £31,750 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,380 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £54,995 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.65% -8.34% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,500 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +2.56%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Reading

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Software Testing in Reading

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Reading over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in Reading

Software Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
1 1 (12.50%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Metadata
1 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Bugzilla
2 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Advertising
3 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Junior
2 2 (25.00%) Junior Software Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Junior Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Scientific Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Control Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Acoustics
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (12.50%) Low-Code
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (25.00%) LLM
2 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) System Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Web Application Development
3 1 (12.50%) API Testing
3 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (12.50%) SDET
3 1 (12.50%) SDLC
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) C
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) C++
3 2 (25.00%) Fortran
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (25.00%) PhD
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (12.50%) AVEVA
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Rockwell
2 1 (12.50%) Siemens