QA Automation Engineer Jobs in Hertfordshire

Automation QA Engineer
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Automation QA Engineer salary in Hertfordshire is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 - 136
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.13% - 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% - 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £37,500 -
% change year-on-year +46.67% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 677 1,829 1,649
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.16% 92.98% 86.29%
Number of salaries quoted 448 1,450 815
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,809 £28,050
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,313 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,875 £75,000 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%

QA Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings that featured QA Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Engineer in Hertfordshire

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Automation Engineer in Hertfordshire.

Salary trend for QA Automation Engineer in Hertfordshire

QA Automation Engineer
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation Engineer within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 May 2025. 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
Watford - 1 £55,000 -
QA Automation Engineer
East of England

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, QA Automation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Hertfordshire region featuring QA Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (100.00%) Sauce Labs
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA