QA Job Trends in Stevenage

Quality Assurance (QA)
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stevenage requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 12 22
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 +10
Permanent jobs citing QA 6 25 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Stevenage 2.71% 9.54% 0.90%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 28.57% 64.10% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63,750 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £25,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +170.00% -54.55% +7.84%
75th Percentile £71,250 - £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £35,000 £62,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year -44.00% +14.68% +21.11%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Stevenage

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 Stevenage.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 21 39 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stevenage 9.50% 14.89% 5.41%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 6
10th Percentile - £48,250 £35,421
25th Percentile £41,250 £63,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £67,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -35.56% +5.88% +44.07%
75th Percentile £51,063 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £55,000 £72,250 -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% -16.67% +14.29%

QA
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing QA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Stevenage.

QA job vacancy trend in Stevenage

QA
Salary Trend in Stevenage

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing QA

QA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
General
1 1 (16.67%) Law
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) QA Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Quality Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Mechanical Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Electronics Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) API Design
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
2 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft
1 1 (16.67%) Pega
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
1 1 (16.67%) SAP
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow