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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 67 82
Rank change year-on-year +6 +15 -7
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 119 126 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.54% 4.31% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 4.53% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 79 62 85
10th Percentile £34,500 £36,125 £29,400
25th Percentile £43,250 £37,013 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +34.02% -3.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,750 £83,750 £71,050
South East median annual salary £48,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.82% +10.00% +5.26%

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 2,788 2,780 3,448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.05% 95.17% 92.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,805 1,545 2,013
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £81,250
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 12 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 12 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 +29 98 £58,000 +27.47% 10
Slough -11 13 £67,500 - 4
Newbury +5 3 £42,000 -8.20% 1
Bracknell +3 2 £34,000 -
Crowthorne - 1 £42,500 -
Wokingham - 1 - - 2
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 (5.88%) Apache
2 6 (5.04%) WinCC
3 1 (0.84%) Confluence
3 1 (0.84%) Moodle
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.84%) Totara
Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (18.49%) AWS
2 15 (12.61%) Azure
3 8 (6.72%) GitHub
4 5 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.20%) SaaS
5 1 (0.84%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.84%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (0.84%) GCP
5 1 (0.84%) IaaS
5 1 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.88%) Ethernet
2 5 (4.20%) LAN
3 3 (2.52%) Profibus
4 1 (0.84%) GPRS
4 1 (0.84%) MQTT
4 1 (0.84%) Network Security
4 1 (0.84%) RS-232
4 1 (0.84%) RS-485
4 1 (0.84%) RTP
4 1 (0.84%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.84%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.92%) OLTP
2 7 (5.88%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (1.68%) Big Data
3 2 (1.68%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (14.29%) GitLab
1 17 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 17 (14.29%) Visual Studio
2 12 (10.08%) Cucumber
3 11 (9.24%) JIRA
3 11 (9.24%) Selenium
4 9 (7.56%) JUnit
5 8 (6.72%) REST Assured
5 8 (6.72%) TestNG
5 8 (6.72%) WebDriver
6 6 (5.04%) Bugzilla
6 6 (5.04%) Zephyr
7 5 (4.20%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.20%) Git
8 3 (2.52%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (2.52%) JMeter
8 3 (2.52%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.68%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.68%) Postman
9 2 (1.68%) SoapUI
General
1 21 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 7 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
3 6 (5.04%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.52%) Electronics
5 2 (1.68%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.84%) Finance
6 1 (0.84%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (22.69%) Senior
2 24 (20.17%) Architect
2 24 (20.17%) Software Architect
3 22 (18.49%) Developer
3 22 (18.49%) Software Engineer
4 13 (10.92%) Oracle Developer
4 13 (10.92%) Senior Developer
4 13 (10.92%) Senior Oracle Developer
4 13 (10.92%) Senior Software Engineer
5 12 (10.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (7.56%) Developer in Test
6 9 (7.56%) Systems Engineer
7 8 (6.72%) Automation Tester
7 8 (6.72%) Tester
8 7 (5.88%) Geospatial Architect
8 7 (5.88%) Research Engineer
8 7 (5.88%) Research Software Engineer
8 7 (5.88%) Software Developer
9 6 (5.04%) Control Systems Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.61%) SOAP
2 13 (10.92%) HTML
2 13 (10.92%) XML
3 10 (8.40%) Web Services
4 8 (6.72%) REST
5 7 (5.88%) Apache Commons
5 7 (5.88%) Guava
5 7 (5.88%) Java Concurrency
5 7 (5.88%) WireMock
6 6 (5.04%) OpenMP
7 5 (4.20%) Playwright
8 3 (2.52%) Middleware
9 2 (1.68%) Gherkin
9 2 (1.68%) Kafka
9 2 (1.68%) RESTful
10 1 (0.84%) Celery
10 1 (0.84%) pytest
10 1 (0.84%) React
10 1 (0.84%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.84%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (21.01%) Algorithms
2 11 (9.24%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.88%) Driving Licence
3 7 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.04%) Client/Server
4 6 (5.04%) CUDA
4 6 (5.04%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.04%) SCADA
4 6 (5.04%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.52%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.84%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.84%) IoT
6 1 (0.84%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.84%) Life Science
6 1 (0.84%) NHS
6 1 (0.84%) SCORM
6 1 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 37 (31.09%) Linux
2 27 (22.69%) Unix
3 6 (5.04%) Windows
4 5 (4.20%) Windows 10
4 5 (4.20%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.68%) CentOS
5 2 (1.68%) Debian
5 2 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (42.02%) Agile
2 46 (38.66%) Computer Science
3 42 (35.29%) Physics
4 27 (22.69%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (21.01%) Mathematics
6 24 (20.17%) DevOps
6 24 (20.17%) Software Engineering
7 22 (18.49%) SDET
8 21 (17.65%) CI/CD
8 21 (17.65%) Open Source
8 21 (17.65%) Performance Analysis
9 20 (16.81%) SDLC
10 19 (15.97%) Parallel Programming
11 17 (14.29%) Containerisation
11 17 (14.29%) Monte Carlo Method
11 17 (14.29%) Test Automation
12 15 (12.61%) Migration
13 14 (11.76%) Code Quality
14 11 (9.24%) API Testing
14 11 (9.24%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (39.50%) Python
2 42 (35.29%) Fortran
3 39 (32.77%) SQL
4 34 (28.57%) C++
5 26 (21.85%) C
6 25 (21.01%) Bash
7 18 (15.13%) C#
8 15 (12.61%) Java
8 15 (12.61%) PL/SQL
9 12 (10.08%) JavaScript
10 9 (7.56%) Groovy
11 6 (5.04%) Perl
11 6 (5.04%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.84%) Go
Qualifications
1 64 (53.78%) Security Cleared
2 50 (42.02%) Degree
3 25 (21.01%) PhD
4 19 (15.97%) Master's Degree
5 16 (13.45%) SC Cleared
6 8 (6.72%) AWS Certification
6 8 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (5.04%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.84%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.84%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.08%) QA
2 4 (3.36%) SLA
3 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.84%) JTAG
3 1 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (15.13%) Docker
2 9 (7.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (16.81%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.40%) Terraform
3 5 (4.20%) HP Quality Center
3 5 (4.20%) SCCM
4 4 (3.36%) Ansible
5 3 (2.52%) Wonderware InTouch
6 2 (1.68%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.84%) Grafana
7 1 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.84%) Puppet
Vendors
1 53 (44.54%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.45%) Oracle
3 10 (8.40%) HP
4 6 (5.04%) AVEVA
4 6 (5.04%) Rockwell
4 6 (5.04%) Siemens
5 3 (2.52%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (2.52%) Wonderware
6 1 (0.84%) Google
6 1 (0.84%) Talend