QA Contracts in Wales

Quality Assurance (QA)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 47 59
Rank change year-on-year +36 +12 -15
Contract jobs citing QA 34 15 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 8.29% 2.57% 1.71%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 43.04% 16.13% 16.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 4 8
10th Percentile £353 £425 £328
25th Percentile £485 £512 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £585 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% +26.49% -2.63%
75th Percentile £551 £613 £519
90th Percentile £667 £635 £612
UK median daily rate £500 £509 £520
% change year-on-year -1.67% -2.21% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £10.92 -
Median % change year-on-year +151.83% - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - £11.33 -
UK median hourly rate £14.00 £22.49 £46.00
% change year-on-year -37.74% -51.12% +135.90%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Wales

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 79 93 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 19.27% 15.95% 10.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 55 63
10th Percentile £133 £261 £265
25th Percentile £300 £274 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.70% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £658 £608 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 10
10th Percentile £13.94 - £10.49
25th Percentile £15.66 - £10.66
Median hourly rate £23.99 £10.92 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year +119.64% -14.34% -37.97%
75th Percentile £28.75 £23.02 £41.80
90th Percentile - £48.75 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £37.75 £27.73
% change year-on-year -36.95% +36.13% +32.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in Wales.

Daily rate trend for QA in Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Wales over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for QA in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Wales region over the 6 months to 13 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales +31 25 £526 -15.92% 22
North Wales - 8 - - 3
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (52.94%) GitHub
2 10 (29.41%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (20.59%) AWS
3 7 (20.59%) Azure
4 5 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.82%) WhatsApp
7 1 (2.94%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Firewall
1 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
1 4 (11.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (35.29%) MySQL
2 8 (23.53%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (5.88%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (47.06%) Cypress.io
2 10 (29.41%) Postman
3 8 (23.53%) GitLab
4 7 (20.59%) Storybook
5 1 (2.94%) AppScan
5 1 (2.94%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.94%) Git
5 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.94%) Subversion
General
1 1 (2.94%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Developer
2 6 (17.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 6 (17.65%) PHP Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Administrator
4 4 (11.76%) DBA
4 4 (11.76%) QA Manager
4 4 (11.76%) QA Officer
4 4 (11.76%) Quality Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Administrator
5 3 (8.82%) Coordinator
5 3 (8.82%) MySQL DBA
5 3 (8.82%) Project Coordinator
6 2 (5.88%) QA Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) QA Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) QA Test Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) SAP Test Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Senior QA Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Senior QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (38.24%) Vue
2 11 (32.35%) Laravel
3 9 (26.47%) Playwright
4 6 (17.65%) React
5 4 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 17 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (14.71%) Public Cloud
3 3 (8.82%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) Linux
2 5 (14.71%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Project Management
2 18 (52.94%) Test Automation
3 17 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 16 (47.06%) Agile
5 15 (44.12%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (26.47%) Analytics
7 8 (23.53%) Front End Development
8 7 (20.59%) Data Analytics
8 7 (20.59%) Full Stack Development
8 7 (20.59%) Objectives and Key Results
8 7 (20.59%) Software Engineering
8 7 (20.59%) Unit Testing
9 5 (14.71%) Change Control
9 5 (14.71%) DevOps
10 4 (11.76%) Manual Testing
10 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
11 3 (8.82%) Contingency Planning
11 3 (8.82%) Resource Allocation
11 3 (8.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) TypeScript
2 7 (20.59%) PHP
3 1 (2.94%) Bash
3 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.94%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.94%) SANS
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Ansible
1 5 (14.71%) Grafana
1 5 (14.71%) Nagios
1 5 (14.71%) Terraform
2 4 (11.76%) Graylog
2 4 (11.76%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.94%) HP Fortify
3 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.94%) Nessus
3 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.94%) Puppet
3 1 (2.94%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 13 (38.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Splunk
3 1 (2.94%) Ariba
3 1 (2.94%) Checkmarx
3 1 (2.94%) SAP
3 1 (2.94%) Veracode