QA Engineer Jobs in Watford

Quality Assurance Engineer
Hertfordshire > Watford

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Watford is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 August 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendPermanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 0.65% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% - -
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 £60,000 £35,000 -
% change year-on-year +71.43% - -

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
Watford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Watford. 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies in Watford with a recognized job title 143 221 207
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 95.67% 84.84%
Number of salaries quoted 112 155 175
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,400 £33,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £30,125 £39,543
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -25.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £57,813 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,250 £75,000
Hertfordshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year - -8.26% +0.93%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Watford

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Watford

Salary distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Watford.

Salary distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Watford

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

For the 6 months to 23 August 2025, QA 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 Watford region featuring QA 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 Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford 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