QA Jobs in Hertfordshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 94 10
Rank change year-on-year +31 -84 +19
Permanent jobs citing QA 28 24 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 3.16% 1.21% 15.07%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 35.44% 13.48% 56.94%
Number of salaries quoted 24 16 19
10th Percentile - £37,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £46,938 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +37.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £46,250 £64,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £75,500 £107,500
East of England median annual salary £51,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +14.44% +5.88% -10.53%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hertfordshire

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 79 178 483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 8.92% 8.98% 26.47%
Number of salaries quoted 62 130 103
10th Percentile £29,125 £24,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -16.67% +26.98%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,188 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,625 £77,500 £72,500
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £43,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.28% -21.82% +10.00%

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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 14 May 2025.

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 14 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
Hemel Hempstead +17 6 £35,000 -46.15% 3
Watford +8 6 £42,500 +6.25% 17
Hatfield +21 5 £35,000 -41.67% 4
St Albans - 4 £35,000 - 3
Borehamwood +8 2 £55,000 -
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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 8 (28.57%) WordPress
2 1 (3.57%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
1 1 (3.57%) AWS
1 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (3.57%) Azure
1 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (3.57%) BrowserStack
1 1 (3.57%) GitHub
1 1 (3.57%) Sauce Labs
1 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
1 2 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Data Hub
1 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Cucumber
1 2 (7.14%) Cypress.io
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
1 2 (7.14%) Robot Framework
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) JMeter
2 1 (3.57%) Postman
2 1 (3.57%) Selenium
General
1 18 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (25.00%) Aerospace
3 7 (25.00%) Aviation
4 3 (10.71%) Finance
4 3 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.57%) Electronics
6 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Coordinator
2 9 (32.14%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) ERP Support
2 9 (32.14%) Web Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Lead
3 3 (10.71%) Test Leader
4 2 (7.14%) QA Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Compliance Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Customer Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Electronics Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) IT Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Quality Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Senior
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Web Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Solutions Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Bootstrap
1 1 (3.57%) CSS
1 1 (3.57%) HTML
1 1 (3.57%) Jest
1 1 (3.57%) Material-UI
1 1 (3.57%) NestJS
1 1 (3.57%) Next.js
1 1 (3.57%) Node.js
1 1 (3.57%) Playwright
1 1 (3.57%) React
1 1 (3.57%) Redux
1 1 (3.57%) RESTful
1 1 (3.57%) Sass
1 1 (3.57%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.57%) BBC
3 1 (3.57%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (35.71%) ERP
3 9 (32.14%) Agile
3 9 (32.14%) Project Delivery
3 9 (32.14%) Web Development
4 8 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (28.57%) Process Improvement
5 7 (25.00%) Data Management
5 7 (25.00%) Project Management
6 5 (17.86%) DevOps
6 5 (17.86%) System Testing
6 5 (17.86%) Test Management
7 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 3 (10.71%) Integration Testing
8 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
8 3 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
9 2 (7.14%) Coaching
9 2 (7.14%) Mentoring
9 2 (7.14%) Project Planning
9 2 (7.14%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) SQL
2 8 (28.57%) PHP
3 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.14%) Bash
4 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.14%) Python
5 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.57%) ISO 14001
1 1 (3.57%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (3.57%) SAP