Software Testing Jobs in Berkshire

Software Testing
South East > Berkshire

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 66 97
Rank change year-on-year +9 +31 -28
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 121 129 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.72% 4.31% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 4.53% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 84 64 79
10th Percentile £34,500 £36,125 £29,800
25th Percentile £41,438 £36,563 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £61,250 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year - +26.29% -3.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,500 £83,750 £70,350
South East median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.91% +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Software Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,743 2,848 3,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 84.30% 95.25% 91.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,809 1,572 1,980
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,775 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,603 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% +1.27% +7.73%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £81,375
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Berkshire

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Software Testing in Berkshire

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in Berkshire

Software Testing
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 +35 101 £58,000 +28.18% 9
Slough -9 13 £67,500 - 2
Newbury +4 3 £42,000 -8.20%
Bracknell +8 2 £34,000 -51.43%
Crowthorne - 1 £42,500 -
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
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 7 (5.79%) Apache
2 6 (4.96%) WinCC
3 1 (0.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) Moodle
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.83%) Totara
Applications
1 7 (5.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (20.66%) AWS
2 15 (12.40%) Azure
3 9 (7.44%) GitHub
4 5 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.13%) SaaS
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.83%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (0.83%) GCP
5 1 (0.83%) IaaS
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.79%) Ethernet
1 7 (5.79%) LAN
2 3 (2.48%) Profibus
3 1 (0.83%) GPRS
3 1 (0.83%) MQTT
3 1 (0.83%) Network Security
3 1 (0.83%) RS-232
3 1 (0.83%) RS-485
3 1 (0.83%) RTP
3 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.83%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.74%) OLTP
2 7 (5.79%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (1.65%) Big Data
3 2 (1.65%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (16.53%) Jenkins
2 17 (14.05%) GitLab
2 17 (14.05%) Visual Studio
3 13 (10.74%) Cucumber
4 12 (9.92%) Selenium
5 11 (9.09%) JIRA
6 9 (7.44%) JUnit
7 8 (6.61%) REST Assured
7 8 (6.61%) TestNG
7 8 (6.61%) WebDriver
8 6 (4.96%) Bugzilla
8 6 (4.96%) Zephyr
9 5 (4.13%) Cypress.io
9 5 (4.13%) Git
10 4 (3.31%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (3.31%) JMeter
10 4 (3.31%) Serenity BDD
11 3 (2.48%) Bitbucket
11 3 (2.48%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.65%) Postman
General
1 23 (19.01%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.61%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (5.79%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (2.48%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.48%) Electronics
5 2 (1.65%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.83%) Finance
6 1 (0.83%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 26 (21.49%) Senior
2 24 (19.83%) Architect
2 24 (19.83%) Software Architect
3 22 (18.18%) Developer
4 20 (16.53%) Software Engineer
5 13 (10.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (10.74%) Oracle Developer
5 13 (10.74%) Senior Developer
5 13 (10.74%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 12 (9.92%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (7.44%) Automation Tester
7 9 (7.44%) Developer in Test
7 9 (7.44%) Systems Engineer
7 9 (7.44%) Tester
8 7 (5.79%) Desktop Support
8 7 (5.79%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
8 7 (5.79%) Geospatial Architect
8 7 (5.79%) Research Engineer
8 7 (5.79%) Research Software Engineer
8 7 (5.79%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.22%) SOAP
2 13 (10.74%) HTML
2 13 (10.74%) XML
3 11 (9.09%) Web Services
4 8 (6.61%) REST
5 7 (5.79%) Apache Commons
5 7 (5.79%) Guava
5 7 (5.79%) Java Concurrency
5 7 (5.79%) WireMock
6 6 (4.96%) OpenMP
7 5 (4.13%) Playwright
8 3 (2.48%) Middleware
8 3 (2.48%) RESTful
9 2 (1.65%) Gherkin
9 2 (1.65%) Kafka
10 1 (0.83%) Celery
10 1 (0.83%) pytest
10 1 (0.83%) React
10 1 (0.83%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.83%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.01%) Algorithms
2 13 (10.74%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.44%) Driving Licence
4 7 (5.79%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (4.96%) Client/Server
5 6 (4.96%) CUDA
5 6 (4.96%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.96%) SCADA
5 6 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.48%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.83%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.83%) IoT
7 1 (0.83%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.83%) Life Science
7 1 (0.83%) SCORM
7 1 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 36 (29.75%) Linux
2 24 (19.83%) Unix
3 8 (6.61%) Windows
4 7 (5.79%) Windows 10
4 7 (5.79%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.65%) CentOS
5 2 (1.65%) Debian
5 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (43.80%) Agile
2 44 (36.36%) Computer Science
3 40 (33.06%) Physics
4 29 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (21.49%) DevOps
6 24 (19.83%) CI/CD
7 23 (19.01%) Mathematics
7 23 (19.01%) SDET
8 22 (18.18%) Software Engineering
9 19 (15.70%) Open Source
9 19 (15.70%) Performance Analysis
10 18 (14.88%) Containerisation
10 18 (14.88%) SDLC
10 18 (14.88%) Test Automation
11 17 (14.05%) Monte Carlo Method
11 17 (14.05%) Parallel Programming
12 16 (13.22%) Migration
13 14 (11.57%) Code Quality
14 11 (9.09%) Test Management
15 10 (8.26%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (37.19%) Python
2 40 (33.06%) Fortran
3 39 (32.23%) SQL
4 32 (26.45%) C++
5 24 (19.83%) C
6 23 (19.01%) Bash
7 18 (14.88%) C#
8 16 (13.22%) Java
9 15 (12.40%) PL/SQL
10 13 (10.74%) JavaScript
11 11 (9.09%) Groovy
12 6 (4.96%) Perl
12 6 (4.96%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.83%) Go
Qualifications
1 66 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 48 (39.67%) Degree
3 23 (19.01%) PhD
4 18 (14.88%) SC Cleared
5 17 (14.05%) Master's Degree
6 8 (6.61%) AWS Certification
6 8 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (6.61%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.92%) QA
2 4 (3.31%) SLA
3 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.83%) JTAG
3 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (16.53%) Docker
2 11 (9.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.92%) Terraform
3 7 (5.79%) SCCM
4 5 (4.13%) HP Quality Center
5 4 (3.31%) Ansible
6 3 (2.48%) Wonderware InTouch
7 2 (1.65%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.83%) Grafana
8 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.83%) Puppet
Vendors
1 53 (43.80%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.22%) Oracle
3 12 (9.92%) HP
4 6 (4.96%) AVEVA
4 6 (4.96%) Rockwell
4 6 (4.96%) Siemens
5 3 (2.48%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (2.48%) Wonderware
6 1 (0.83%) Google
6 1 (0.83%) Talend