Exploratory Testing Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Exploratory Testing
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 0.091% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 - -
75th Percentile £30,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £28,500 £60,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -52.50% +60.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

Exploratory 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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,622 749 1,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 73.59% 88.64% 73.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,125 491 688
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £48,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.79% -11.11% -1.82%
75th Percentile £73,750 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -9.09%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Exploratory Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Exploratory Testing job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Exploratory Testing
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Exploratory Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Exploratory Testing

Exploratory Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Junior
1 2 (100.00%) Junior Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Junior QA Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Junior QA Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Junior Test Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) QA Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Test Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA