Test Automation Jobs in Reading

Automated Testing
Berkshire > Reading

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

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 69 33
Rank change year-on-year +6 -36 +2
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 6 52 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 1.15% 3.06% 8.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 3.46% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3 28 53
10th Percentile £32,500 - £44,030
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65,375 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £70,100 £77,375 £79,500
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Test 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 444 1,501 1,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 85.38% 88.40% 97.09%
Number of salaries quoted 238 912 810
10th Percentile £31,750 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,463 £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 £101,500 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Reading

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Reading

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Reading over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Reading

Test Automation
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 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
1 1 (16.67%) Modbus
1 1 (16.67%) Profibus
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded Software Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Junior Software Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Junior Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Microwave Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) PCB Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) PCB Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) RF Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) RF Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
1 1 (16.67%) Low-Code
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (16.67%) API Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Issue Tracking
2 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) SDLC
2 1 (16.67%) Security Hardening
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Groovy
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) MATLAB
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) SAP