Software Testing Jobs in Berkshire

Software Testing
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 79 47
Rank change year-on-year +37 -32 +46
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 105 79 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.77% 3.63% 6.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.70% 3.93% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 44 56 143
10th Percentile £46,250 £36,350 £34,875
25th Percentile £60,938 £42,750 £36,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £52,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -1.87% +7.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,125 £77,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £51,738
% change year-on-year +23.81% +1.47% +8.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Software 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 Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,842 2,008 3,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.65% 92.36% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 899 1,137 1,919
10th Percentile £36,875 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,838 £39,085 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.91% - +4.76%

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 +28 60 £62,500 +25.00% 5
Slough +1 20 £66,250 -1.85% 1
Bracknell - 7 £75,000 -
Windsor - 4 £47,500 -
Wokingham - 2 £50,000 - 2
Newbury 0 1 £55,000 +21.95%
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 6 (5.71%) Confluence
2 4 (3.81%) Apache
3 3 (2.86%) WinCC
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 7 (6.67%) Azure
2 6 (5.71%) AWS
3 2 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (1.90%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (1.90%) Power Automate
3 2 (1.90%) SaaS
4 1 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (0.95%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (0.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.86%) Ethernet
1 3 (2.86%) Profibus
2 1 (0.95%) RTP
2 1 (0.95%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.95%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (19.05%) OLTP
2 3 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.95%) MySQL
3 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (17.14%) GitLab
1 18 (17.14%) Visual Studio
2 12 (11.43%) JIRA
3 10 (9.52%) Selenium
4 9 (8.57%) WebDriver
5 5 (4.76%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.76%) JUnit
5 5 (4.76%) Postman
5 5 (4.76%) SoapUI
5 5 (4.76%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (3.81%) REST Assured
6 4 (3.81%) TestNG
7 2 (1.90%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.90%) Git
7 2 (1.90%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.95%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.95%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.95%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (12.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (0.95%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 39 (37.14%) Senior
2 29 (27.62%) Software Engineer
3 27 (25.71%) Developer
4 21 (20.00%) Architect
4 21 (20.00%) Software Architect
5 20 (19.05%) Oracle Developer
5 20 (19.05%) Senior Developer
5 20 (19.05%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 13 (12.38%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (6.67%) Analyst
7 7 (6.67%) PL/SQL Developer
7 7 (6.67%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
7 7 (6.67%) Senior SQL Developer
7 7 (6.67%) SQL Developer
7 7 (6.67%) Test Manager
8 6 (5.71%) Test Analyst
9 5 (4.76%) QA Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (4.76%) Senior Test Analyst
10 4 (3.81%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (26.67%) HTML
2 25 (23.81%) SOAP
3 20 (19.05%) XML
4 7 (6.67%) .NET
5 4 (3.81%) Apache Commons
5 4 (3.81%) Guava
5 4 (3.81%) Java Concurrency
5 4 (3.81%) REST
5 4 (3.81%) WireMock
6 2 (1.90%) CSS
6 2 (1.90%) VTK
7 1 (0.95%) CORBA
7 1 (0.95%) Kafka
7 1 (0.95%) pytest
7 1 (0.95%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.95%) Web Services
7 1 (0.95%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (23.81%) Algorithms
2 5 (4.76%) Virtual Team
3 3 (2.86%) Fibre Optics
3 3 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.86%) SCADA
4 2 (1.90%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.95%) NHS
5 1 (0.95%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 29 (27.62%) Linux
2 28 (26.67%) Unix
3 1 (0.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (55.24%) Computer Science
2 45 (42.86%) Physics
3 36 (34.29%) Agile
4 29 (27.62%) Software Engineering
5 27 (25.71%) Mathematics
5 27 (25.71%) Open Source
5 27 (25.71%) Performance Analysis
6 26 (24.76%) SDLC
7 25 (23.81%) Parallel Programming
7 25 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (17.14%) Monte Carlo Method
8 18 (17.14%) Test Automation
9 11 (10.48%) Code Quality
9 11 (10.48%) Scrum
10 10 (9.52%) Test Strategy
11 8 (7.62%) API Testing
11 8 (7.62%) CI/CD
12 7 (6.67%) DevOps
12 7 (6.67%) Security Testing
12 7 (6.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 50 (47.62%) Python
2 47 (44.76%) SQL
3 45 (42.86%) Fortran
4 32 (30.48%) C#
5 29 (27.62%) C++
6 28 (26.67%) C
7 25 (23.81%) Bash
8 20 (19.05%) PL/SQL
9 9 (8.57%) Java
10 5 (4.76%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.90%) Groovy
12 1 (0.95%) Perl
12 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.95%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (56.19%) Degree
2 50 (47.62%) Security Cleared
3 25 (23.81%) Master's Degree
3 25 (23.81%) PhD
4 13 (12.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (6.67%) SC Cleared
6 5 (4.76%) ISTQB
6 5 (4.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.90%) Terraform
3 1 (0.95%) Grafana
3 1 (0.95%) Netcool
3 1 (0.95%) Netcool/OMNIbus
3 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.95%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 44 (41.90%) Microsoft
2 23 (21.90%) Oracle
3 3 (2.86%) AVEVA
3 3 (2.86%) Rockwell
3 3 (2.86%) Siemens
4 2 (1.90%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.95%) IBM
5 1 (0.95%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.95%) SAP
5 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.95%) Talend
5 1 (0.95%) Workday