QA Automation Job Trends in Watford

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Watford requiring QA Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Watford 0.62% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% - -
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 - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £35,000 -
% change year-on-year +57.14% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Watford

QA Automation 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 Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 137 146 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 84.57% 80.66% 86.08%
Number of salaries quoted 130 83 135
10th Percentile £32,500 £26,000 £39,085
25th Percentile £33,438 £35,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.75% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £58,750 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,150 £79,750
Hertfordshire median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

QA Automation job vacancy trend in Watford

QA Automation
Salary Trend in Watford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing QA Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing QA Automation

QA Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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 (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
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
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%) 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