Tester Jobs in Reading

Tester
Berkshire > Reading

The median Tester salary in Reading is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
10 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 100 115
Rank change year-on-year -7 +15 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 14 31 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 0.82% 1.97% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 2.11% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9 13 14
10th Percentile - £65,500 £43,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - - £72,000
Berkshire median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Reading with a recognized job title 1,626 1,471 1,729
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.76% 93.63% 97.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,028 785 1,027
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,595 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings that featured Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Tester in Reading

Tester
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Tester in Reading

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Tester job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Reading region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Java
1 14 (100.00%) Selenium
1 14 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 14 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 13 (92.86%) CI/CD
3 11 (78.57%) REST Assured
3 11 (78.57%) Code Quality
3 11 (78.57%) BDD
3 11 (78.57%) WebDriver
4 10 (71.43%) TestNG
4 10 (71.43%) Scrum
4 10 (71.43%) Agile
4 10 (71.43%) Software Testing
4 10 (71.43%) JUnit
4 10 (71.43%) Apache
4 10 (71.43%) Design Patterns
4 10 (71.43%) Containerisation
4 10 (71.43%) REST
4 10 (71.43%) Java Concurrency
4 10 (71.43%) Docker
4 10 (71.43%) Apache Commons
4 10 (71.43%) Kubernetes
4 10 (71.43%) API Testing
4 10 (71.43%) SDET
4 10 (71.43%) Guava
4 10 (71.43%) WireMock
4 10 (71.43%) Scenario Testing
5 9 (64.29%) SC Cleared
5 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
6 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration

Tester Skill Set
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 10 (71.43%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) GitHub
1 4 (28.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 14 (100.00%) Selenium
2 11 (78.57%) REST Assured
2 11 (78.57%) WebDriver
3 10 (71.43%) JUnit
3 10 (71.43%) TestNG
4 4 (28.57%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
4 4 (28.57%) JIRA
4 4 (28.57%) JMeter
4 4 (28.57%) Serenity BDD
5 3 (21.43%) Bitbucket
5 3 (21.43%) SoapUI
6 1 (7.14%) Hudson
6 1 (7.14%) Postman
General
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) Apache Commons
1 10 (71.43%) Guava
1 10 (71.43%) Java Concurrency
1 10 (71.43%) REST
1 10 (71.43%) WireMock
2 4 (28.57%) Web Services
3 3 (21.43%) RESTful
3 3 (21.43%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (92.86%) CI/CD
3 11 (78.57%) BDD
3 11 (78.57%) Code Quality
4 10 (71.43%) Agile
4 10 (71.43%) API Testing
4 10 (71.43%) Containerisation
4 10 (71.43%) Design Patterns
4 10 (71.43%) Scenario Testing
4 10 (71.43%) Scrum
4 10 (71.43%) SDET
4 10 (71.43%) Software Testing
5 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (35.71%) Task Automation
6 4 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (28.57%) Test Management
7 1 (7.14%) Clean Code
7 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (7.14%) Performance Testing
7 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) SC Cleared
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 Tester jobs in Berkshire