QA Jobs in Berkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 31 63
Rank change year-on-year -33 +32 -32
Permanent jobs citing QA 111 247 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.55% 8.01% 4.46%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.34% 36.59% 29.52%
Number of salaries quoted 65 60 96
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £100,000 £78,500
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Berkshire

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 438 675 525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.01% 21.90% 15.12%
Number of salaries quoted 250 277 309
10th Percentile £26,975 £27,840 £26,945
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,130 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.13% -17.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £79,000
South East median annual salary £46,500 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.82% -2.86% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Berkshire

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Salary Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in Berkshire.

Salary trend for QA in Berkshire

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Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Berkshire over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in Berkshire

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Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -9 60 £47,500 -35.59% 18
Bracknell +19 19 £55,000 +37.50% 3
Windsor -6 7 £35,000 -25.53%
Wokingham - 6 £55,000 - 1
Hungerford - 6 £50,000 -
Newbury +12 2 £34,000 -56.13% 1
Slough -18 2 £25,750 -53.18% 4
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (9.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (9.01%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (17.12%) Azure
2 18 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (6.31%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (4.50%) GitHub
6 3 (2.70%) SaaS
6 3 (2.70%) Serverless
7 2 (1.80%) AWS
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.90%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.90%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.90%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.90%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.90%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.90%) DHCP
1 1 (0.90%) DNS
1 1 (0.90%) MQTT
1 1 (0.90%) RS-485
1 1 (0.90%) VLAN
1 1 (0.90%) VPN
1 1 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (3.60%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.80%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (9.91%) Git
2 10 (9.01%) JIRA
3 8 (7.21%) TestRail
4 7 (6.31%) Cypress.io
5 6 (5.41%) Bugzilla
5 6 (5.41%) Jenkins
5 6 (5.41%) Zephyr
6 4 (3.60%) Selenium
7 2 (1.80%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.80%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.80%) JDeveloper
7 2 (1.80%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.80%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.90%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.90%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (48.65%) Social Skills
2 28 (25.23%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (25.23%) Retail
3 15 (13.51%) Manufacturing
4 13 (11.71%) Legal
5 9 (8.11%) Finance
6 7 (6.31%) Back Office
6 7 (6.31%) Police
7 6 (5.41%) Multimedia
8 3 (2.70%) Electronics
8 3 (2.70%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.90%) Automotive
10 1 (0.90%) Billing
10 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.90%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (18.02%) Developer
2 14 (12.61%) Software Developer
3 12 (10.81%) Analyst
3 12 (10.81%) Lead
4 11 (9.91%) QA Engineer
5 10 (9.01%) Quality Manager
6 8 (7.21%) Coordinator
6 8 (7.21%) Software Engineer
6 8 (7.21%) Test Analyst
7 7 (6.31%) Administrator
7 7 (6.31%) QA Specialist
7 7 (6.31%) QA Technician
7 7 (6.31%) ServiceNow Administrator
7 7 (6.31%) Systems Developer
8 6 (5.41%) Developer in Test
8 6 (5.41%) Digital Developer
8 6 (5.41%) Digital Learning Developer
8 6 (5.41%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
8 6 (5.41%) JavaScript Developer
8 6 (5.41%) Service Delivery Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.51%) .NET
2 13 (11.71%) .NET Core
2 13 (11.71%) Web Services
3 7 (6.31%) CSS
4 6 (5.41%) ASP.NET
5 5 (4.50%) Playwright
6 4 (3.60%) Middleware
6 4 (3.60%) React
7 2 (1.80%) Jest
7 2 (1.80%) JSON
7 2 (1.80%) Node.js
8 1 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.90%) Laravel
8 1 (0.90%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.90%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.90%) React Native
8 1 (0.90%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.61%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.41%) Client/Server
2 6 (5.41%) e-Learning
2 6 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (5.41%) Learning Management System
2 6 (5.41%) SCORM
3 4 (3.60%) IoT
3 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.70%) SCADA
5 2 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.90%) Life Science
6 1 (0.90%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.90%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.90%) Social Media
6 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.80%) Linux
2 1 (0.90%) Android
2 1 (0.90%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.90%) Windows
2 1 (0.90%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.90%) Windows NT
2 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (34.23%) Agile
2 27 (24.32%) Test Automation
3 22 (19.82%) DevOps
4 17 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (13.51%) Test Management
6 14 (12.61%) Chemistry
6 14 (12.61%) Coaching
6 14 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (12.61%) Data Analysis
7 13 (11.71%) Project Management
7 13 (11.71%) Scrum
7 13 (11.71%) Service Delivery
8 12 (10.81%) Software Testing
8 12 (10.81%) Test Scripting
9 11 (9.91%) Requirements Gathering
9 11 (9.91%) Software Engineering
10 10 (9.01%) Actionable Insight
11 9 (8.11%) Clean Code
11 9 (8.11%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (8.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 17 (15.32%) JavaScript
1 17 (15.32%) SQL
2 15 (13.51%) C#
3 8 (7.21%) TypeScript
4 6 (5.41%) VB.NET
5 4 (3.60%) Java
5 4 (3.60%) Python
6 3 (2.70%) Perl
7 2 (1.80%) Bash
7 2 (1.80%) Go
7 2 (1.80%) Ruby
8 1 (0.90%) C
8 1 (0.90%) C++
8 1 (0.90%) Groovy
8 1 (0.90%) PHP
8 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (27.93%) Degree
2 17 (15.32%) Security Cleared
3 9 (8.11%) ISTQB
3 9 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.21%) DV Cleared
4 8 (7.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (6.31%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.31%) ISO 14001
1 7 (6.31%) ISO 22301
1 7 (6.31%) ISO 9001
1 7 (6.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (6.31%) NEBOSH
2 3 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.80%) GRC
3 2 (1.80%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (3.60%) Firmware
2 2 (1.80%) Docker
3 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (4.50%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.90%) Ansible
3 1 (0.90%) Packer
3 1 (0.90%) SCCM
3 1 (0.90%) Sysprep
3 1 (0.90%) Terraform
3 1 (0.90%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.11%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.50%) HP
4 3 (2.70%) Oracle
5 1 (0.90%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.90%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.90%) IBM
5 1 (0.90%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.90%) Salesforce