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 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 34 45
Rank change year-on-year +29 +11 +37
Permanent jobs citing QA 198 33 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 13.66% 4.55% 5.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 61.68% 26.40% 34.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 47
10th Percentile £29,000 £20,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £54,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% +21.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £101,250
90th Percentile - - £167,500
East of England median annual salary £35,000 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -39.13% +27.78% -5.26%

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 321 125 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 22.14% 17.22% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 66 79 126
10th Percentile £26,000 £21,328 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,875 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £102,500
East of England median annual salary £54,500 £57,500 £47,616
% change year-on-year -5.22% +20.76% +0.24%

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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 November 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 14 November 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
Welwyn Garden City +1 28 - -
Hitchin - 26 - -
Knebworth - 26 - -
Stevenage +9 25 £25,000 -54.55% 7
Letchworth - 24 - -
Baldock - 24 - -
Buntingford - 24 - -
Bishop's Stortford - 10 - - 2
Hatfield -5 1 £35,000 -46.15% 1
Hemel Hempstead -19 1 - - 4
Potters Bar - 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 (1.01%) Smallworld
2 1 (0.51%) Confluence
2 1 (0.51%) Liferay
Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) SAP CRM
1 2 (1.01%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 1 (0.51%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.52%) GIS
2 2 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (1.01%) Spatial Data
3 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.01%) JIRA
1 2 (1.01%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (0.51%) Git
2 1 (0.51%) IntelliJ
2 1 (0.51%) Selenium
2 1 (0.51%) TestComplete
2 1 (0.51%) WebDriver
General
1 172 (86.87%) Social Skills
2 4 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (1.52%) Automotive
3 3 (1.52%) Retail
4 2 (1.01%) Aerospace
4 2 (1.01%) Avionics
4 2 (1.01%) Electronics
4 2 (1.01%) Finance
5 1 (0.51%) Banking
5 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 171 (86.36%) Project Manager
2 10 (5.05%) QA Officer
3 6 (3.03%) Senior
4 5 (2.53%) Risk Manager
4 5 (2.53%) Senior Manager
4 5 (2.53%) Senior Risk Manager
5 4 (2.02%) Analyst
6 3 (1.52%) QA Analyst
6 3 (1.52%) Quality Analyst
7 2 (1.01%) Lead
7 2 (1.01%) Project Leader
7 2 (1.01%) QA Engineer
7 2 (1.01%) Software Project Leader
8 1 (0.51%) Business Systems Analyst
8 1 (0.51%) Developer
8 1 (0.51%) Java Developer
8 1 (0.51%) Senior Developer
8 1 (0.51%) Systems Analyst
8 1 (0.51%) Technical Support
8 1 (0.51%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.01%) REST
2 1 (0.51%) .NET
2 1 (0.51%) CSS
2 1 (0.51%) CSS3
2 1 (0.51%) GraphQL
2 1 (0.51%) Hibernate
2 1 (0.51%) HTML
2 1 (0.51%) HTML5
2 1 (0.51%) jQuery
2 1 (0.51%) JSON
2 1 (0.51%) Middleware
2 1 (0.51%) Web Services
2 1 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 106 (53.54%) Driving Licence
2 2 (1.01%) Management Information System
2 2 (1.01%) Robotics
3 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
3 1 (0.51%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (87.37%) Project Management
2 171 (86.36%) Budgeting
3 6 (3.03%) Agile
4 5 (2.53%) Business Continuity
4 5 (2.53%) Information Security
4 5 (2.53%) Risk Management
4 5 (2.53%) Risk Register
4 5 (2.53%) SDLC
5 4 (2.02%) DevOps
5 4 (2.02%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (2.02%) Software Testing
5 4 (2.02%) Test Automation
6 3 (1.52%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (1.52%) Code Quality
6 3 (1.52%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (1.01%) Cartography
7 2 (1.01%) Cost Control
7 2 (1.01%) Data Validation
7 2 (1.01%) Information Management
7 2 (1.01%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.03%) SQL
2 2 (1.01%) Ada
2 2 (1.01%) C
2 2 (1.01%) C++
2 2 (1.01%) Java
3 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 172 (86.87%) Degree
2 171 (86.36%) HNC
3 5 (2.53%) CISA
3 5 (2.53%) CISM
3 5 (2.53%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.53%) ISO 22301
1 5 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.01%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 171 (86.36%) NEC
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.01%) SAP
3 1 (0.51%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (0.51%) Sybase