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

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 10 31
Rank change year-on-year -74 +21 +64
Permanent jobs citing QA 32 243 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.46% 14.94% 7.72%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.67% 53.76% 37.89%
Number of salaries quoted 16 14 78
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £37,500 £34,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year +36.25% -3.03% -28.26%
75th Percentile £60,938 £68,750 £59,688
90th Percentile £75,500 £97,000 £68,750
East of England median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -10.53% -9.52%

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 192 452 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 8.76% 27.78% 20.37%
Number of salaries quoted 136 103 168
10th Percentile £24,750 £32,500 £26,175
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £35,124
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £47,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +26.98% -10.85%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,125 £70,000 £73,625
East of England median annual salary £44,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.48% +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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -13 9 £65,000 - 3
Bishop's Stortford - 6 - - 2
Stevenage - 6 £44,250 - 13
Watford -28 4 £40,000 - 6
Borehamwood -3 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 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Liferay
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.13%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.13%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) LAN
1 1 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.13%) GIS
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) IntelliJ
2 2 (6.25%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (3.13%) Rational DOORS
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Aerospace
3 7 (21.88%) Automotive
4 4 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Finance
5 3 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Back Office
6 2 (6.25%) Electronics
7 1 (3.13%) Advertising
7 1 (3.13%) Aviation
7 1 (3.13%) Avionics
7 1 (3.13%) Banking
7 1 (3.13%) Legal
7 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Lead
2 6 (18.75%) Development Team Leader
2 6 (18.75%) QA Officer
2 6 (18.75%) Team Leader
3 4 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.25%) QA Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Salesforce Business Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Project Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Support
5 2 (6.25%) Test Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) GIS Graduate
6 1 (3.13%) Head of IT
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) .NET
2 2 (6.25%) CSS
2 2 (6.25%) CSS3
2 2 (6.25%) GraphQL
2 2 (6.25%) Hibernate
2 2 (6.25%) HTML
2 2 (6.25%) HTML5
2 2 (6.25%) jQuery
2 2 (6.25%) JSON
2 2 (6.25%) REST
2 2 (6.25%) Spring
2 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
2 2 (6.25%) Spring MVC
2 2 (6.25%) Swing
2 2 (6.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (6.25%) Web Services
2 2 (6.25%) XML
3 1 (3.13%) Middleware
3 1 (3.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (9.38%) Driving Licence
3 2 (6.25%) Robotics
3 2 (6.25%) Wiki
4 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Agile
2 9 (28.13%) SDLC
3 8 (25.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 8 (25.00%) Scrum
3 8 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (21.88%) Line Management
5 6 (18.75%) Collaborative Culture
5 6 (18.75%) People Management
5 6 (18.75%) Use Case
6 5 (15.63%) Customer Service
7 4 (12.50%) Integration Testing
7 4 (12.50%) Quality Management
7 4 (12.50%) Waterfall
8 3 (9.38%) Customer Requirements
8 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (9.38%) Project Management
8 3 (9.38%) Translating Business Requirements
9 2 (6.25%) Creative Thinking
9 2 (6.25%) Stakeholder Identification
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) VB
1 6 (18.75%) VB6
2 3 (9.38%) Java
3 1 (3.13%) Ada
3 1 (3.13%) C
3 1 (3.13%) C++
3 1 (3.13%) MATLAB
3 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) Degree
3 2 (6.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (3.13%) ISEB
4 1 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) ISO 9001
2 3 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 2 (6.25%) PMO
4 1 (3.13%) GxP
4 1 (3.13%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 2 (6.25%) Sybase
3 1 (3.13%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (3.13%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) NCR
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) SAP
3 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.13%) VMware