QA Jobs in Hertfordshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 9 33
Rank change year-on-year -86 +24 +47
Permanent jobs citing QA 25 290 154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.29% 14.89% 7.50%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.71% 59.67% 38.12%
Number of salaries quoted 17 23 62
10th Percentile £37,650 - £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -13.51% -19.57%
75th Percentile £62,500 £90,000 £63,438
90th Percentile £75,400 £107,500 £68,750
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hertfordshire

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 170 486 404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 8.74% 24.95% 19.67%
Number of salaries quoted 123 98 163
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £33,625 £37,500 £35,083
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +17.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,250 £77,500 £72,500
East of England median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +5.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Hertfordshire

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Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Salary trend for QA in Hertfordshire

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Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in Hertfordshire

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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 within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Hemel Hempstead -11 8 £65,000 -
Stevenage -9 5 £50,000 - 9
Watford -30 4 £40,000 - 8
Borehamwood +2 3 £55,000 - 2
Hatfield +8 1 £60,000 - 3
Hitchin - 1 - - 1
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East of England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) AWS
2 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.00%) GitHub
2 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) LAN
1 1 (4.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) JIRA
2 3 (12.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) IntelliJ
3 2 (8.00%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (4.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 8 (32.00%) Aerospace
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Automotive
3 4 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (16.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (12.00%) Electronics
4 3 (12.00%) Finance
5 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Back Office
5 2 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.00%) Advertising
6 1 (4.00%) Aviation
6 1 (4.00%) Avionics
6 1 (4.00%) Legal
6 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Lead
2 6 (24.00%) Development Team Leader
2 6 (24.00%) Team Leader
3 4 (16.00%) Project Manager
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
4 3 (12.00%) Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Project Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Head of IT
6 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Project Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Software Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) .NET
2 3 (12.00%) CSS
2 3 (12.00%) CSS3
2 3 (12.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (12.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (12.00%) HTML
2 3 (12.00%) HTML5
2 3 (12.00%) jQuery
2 3 (12.00%) JSON
2 3 (12.00%) REST
2 3 (12.00%) Spring
2 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (12.00%) Spring MVC
2 3 (12.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 3 (12.00%) Web Services
2 3 (12.00%) XML
3 2 (8.00%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (12.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (8.00%) Robotics
3 2 (8.00%) Wiki
4 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Agile
2 9 (36.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 9 (36.00%) Scrum
2 9 (36.00%) SDLC
3 8 (32.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (28.00%) Line Management
5 6 (24.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 6 (24.00%) People Management
5 6 (24.00%) Use Case
6 5 (20.00%) Customer Service
6 5 (20.00%) Integration Testing
7 4 (16.00%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (16.00%) Project Management
7 4 (16.00%) Quality Management
8 3 (12.00%) Concurrent Programming
8 3 (12.00%) Front End Development
8 3 (12.00%) Functional Programming
8 3 (12.00%) MVC
8 3 (12.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) VB
1 6 (24.00%) VB6
2 3 (12.00%) Java
3 1 (4.00%) Ada
3 1 (4.00%) C
3 1 (4.00%) C++
3 1 (4.00%) MATLAB
3 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Degree
1 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (4.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) ISO 9001
2 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 2 (8.00%) PMO
4 1 (4.00%) GxP
4 1 (4.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Grafana
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Sybase
3 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) NCR
4 1 (4.00%) New Relic
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk
4 1 (4.00%) VMware