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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 10 27
Rank change year-on-year -84 +17 +61
Permanent jobs citing QA 26 262 175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.27% 15.07% 8.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.29% 55.74% 38.29%
Number of salaries quoted 16 16 77
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £40,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.25% -12.09% -17.27%
75th Percentile £60,938 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,500 £90,000 £71,750
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -5.00%

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 182 470 457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 8.86% 27.03% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 134 103 168
10th Percentile £24,750 £32,500 £25,850
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £35,124
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +21.21% -6.60%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £64,375
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £76,625
East of England median annual salary £44,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -22.61% +15.00% -

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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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -8 9 £65,000 - 4
Stevenage - 6 £44,250 - 7
Watford -31 4 £40,000 - 3
Borehamwood -4 2 £55,000 - 2
Potters Bar - 2 - -
Hitchin - 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 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Liferay
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.85%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.85%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) LAN
1 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) GIS
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) IntelliJ
2 2 (7.69%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (3.85%) Rational DOORS
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Aerospace
3 7 (26.92%) Automotive
4 4 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
5 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Finance
5 3 (11.54%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (7.69%) Back Office
6 2 (7.69%) Electronics
7 1 (3.85%) Advertising
7 1 (3.85%) Aviation
7 1 (3.85%) Avionics
7 1 (3.85%) Banking
7 1 (3.85%) Legal
7 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Lead
2 6 (23.08%) Development Team Leader
2 6 (23.08%) Team Leader
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) QA Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Salesforce Business Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Project Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Technical Support
5 2 (7.69%) Test Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) GIS Graduate
6 1 (3.85%) Head of IT
6 1 (3.85%) Software Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) .NET
2 2 (7.69%) CSS
2 2 (7.69%) CSS3
2 2 (7.69%) GraphQL
2 2 (7.69%) Hibernate
2 2 (7.69%) HTML
2 2 (7.69%) HTML5
2 2 (7.69%) jQuery
2 2 (7.69%) JSON
2 2 (7.69%) REST
2 2 (7.69%) Spring
2 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 2 (7.69%) Spring MVC
2 2 (7.69%) Swing
2 2 (7.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (7.69%) Web Services
2 2 (7.69%) XML
3 1 (3.85%) Middleware
3 1 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (11.54%) Driving Licence
3 2 (7.69%) Robotics
3 2 (7.69%) Wiki
4 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) SDLC
3 8 (30.77%) Commercial Awareness
3 8 (30.77%) Scrum
3 8 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (26.92%) Line Management
5 6 (23.08%) Collaborative Culture
5 6 (23.08%) People Management
5 6 (23.08%) Use Case
6 5 (19.23%) Customer Service
7 4 (15.38%) Integration Testing
7 4 (15.38%) Quality Management
7 4 (15.38%) Waterfall
8 3 (11.54%) Customer Requirements
8 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (11.54%) Project Management
8 3 (11.54%) Translating Business Requirements
9 2 (7.69%) Creative Thinking
9 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Identification
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) VB
1 6 (23.08%) VB6
2 3 (11.54%) Java
3 1 (3.85%) Ada
3 1 (3.85%) C
3 1 (3.85%) C++
3 1 (3.85%) MATLAB
3 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) Degree
3 2 (7.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (3.85%) ISEB
4 1 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) ISO 9001
2 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 2 (7.69%) PMO
4 1 (3.85%) GxP
4 1 (3.85%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 2 (7.69%) Sybase
3 1 (3.85%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (3.85%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) NCR
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.85%) VMware