System Testing Job Trends in Reading

System Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring System Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 65 107
Rank change year-on-year +16 +42 +11
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 14 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 1.64% 0.62% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 0.69% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £59,250
25th Percentile £56,250 - £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £65,000
75th Percentile £70,938 - £70,000
90th Percentile £74,875 - £70,750
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 - £65,000

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

System 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 658 436 1,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 76.96% 90.27% 88.31%
Number of salaries quoted 416 214 879
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £29,950
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £83,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,125 £112,500 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

System Testing job vacancy trend in Reading

System Testing
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing System Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing System Testing

System Testing
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing System Testing in Reading over the 6 months to 25 March 2026.

Salary histogram for System Testing in Reading

System Testing
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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) AWS
1 13 (92.86%) Azure
1 13 (92.86%) GCP
General
1 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Software Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Python Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Python Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 13 (92.86%) Client/Server
1 13 (92.86%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Code Quality
1 13 (92.86%) Computer Science
1 13 (92.86%) Continuous Improvement
1 13 (92.86%) Software Engineering
1 13 (92.86%) Test Automation
2 10 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (64.29%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Use Case
5 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) C
1 13 (92.86%) C++
1 13 (92.86%) Python
1 13 (92.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (92.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 13 (92.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (64.29%) QA
System Software
1 13 (92.86%) Hyper-V
1 13 (92.86%) KVM
1 13 (92.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) VMware