QA Jobs in South Wales

Quality Assurance (QA)
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 53 28
Rank change year-on-year -7 -25 +30
Permanent jobs citing QA 45 52 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 2.80% 4.46% 7.92%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.56% 31.71% 34.73%
Number of salaries quoted 34 22 61
10th Percentile £30,750 - £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £26,391 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £43,067 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.90% -17.97% +31.25%
75th Percentile £70,000 £51,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £63,375 £72,500
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year - -12.20% +28.13%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 191 164 357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 11.86% 14.07% 22.80%
Number of salaries quoted 104 76 167
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,391 £34,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £43,067 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -13.87% +36.34%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £69,375 £80,000
Wales median annual salary £40,500 £43,048 £48,000
% change year-on-year -5.92% -10.32% +20.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in South Wales

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Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in South Wales.

Salary trend for QA in South Wales

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Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in South Wales over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in South Wales

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Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cardiff +26 36 £52,500 +5.00% 8
Gwent -6 6 £24,000 - 2
Glamorgan -3 3 £50,000 - 7
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Wales

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.44%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.56%) Azure
2 6 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.89%) SaaS
4 1 (2.22%) AWS
4 1 (2.22%) BrowserStack
4 1 (2.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) DSL
1 2 (4.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (8.89%) MySQL
3 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.22%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.22%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Postman
2 7 (15.56%) JMeter
3 6 (13.33%) Git
3 6 (13.33%) SoapUI
3 6 (13.33%) Visual Studio
4 5 (11.11%) Selenium
5 4 (8.89%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.44%) JIRA
7 1 (2.22%) Appium
7 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.22%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.22%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (2.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 12 (26.67%) Finance
2 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Banking
4 5 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 4 (8.89%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.44%) Marketing
7 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Local Government
7 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.22%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 19 (42.22%) Lead
2 11 (24.44%) QA Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Quality Engineer
3 10 (22.22%) Developer
4 7 (15.56%) QA Leader
5 6 (13.33%) Lead Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Automation Test Lead
6 4 (8.89%) Business Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Software Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Test Leader
7 3 (6.67%) QA Tester
7 3 (6.67%) Tester
8 2 (4.44%) Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) QA Manager
8 2 (4.44%) Quality Manager
8 2 (4.44%) Technical Business Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) User Researcher
9 1 (2.22%) Digital Project Manager
9 1 (2.22%) Junior Analyst
9 1 (2.22%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.78%) .NET
2 7 (15.56%) CSS
2 7 (15.56%) HTML
3 6 (13.33%) .NET Core
3 6 (13.33%) ASP.NET
3 6 (13.33%) JSON
3 6 (13.33%) REST
4 4 (8.89%) Laravel
5 2 (4.44%) Gherkin
5 2 (4.44%) JSON Schema
5 2 (4.44%) RESTful
5 2 (4.44%) Swagger
5 2 (4.44%) Web Services
6 1 (2.22%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (2.22%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Product Ownership
2 6 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (13.33%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.22%) FMCG
4 1 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (35.56%) Mentoring
1 16 (35.56%) Test Automation
2 15 (33.33%) Agile
2 15 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 14 (31.11%) CI/CD
4 10 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (17.78%) Fintech
5 8 (17.78%) Roadmaps
6 7 (15.56%) Change Management
6 7 (15.56%) Translating Business Requirements
7 6 (13.33%) Analytics
7 6 (13.33%) Code Optimisation
7 6 (13.33%) Defect Management
7 6 (13.33%) DevOps
7 6 (13.33%) ETL
7 6 (13.33%) Microservices
7 6 (13.33%) Migration
7 6 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (13.33%) Software Architecture
7 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 10 (22.22%) C#
3 7 (15.56%) SQL
4 5 (11.11%) Java
5 4 (8.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.44%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) Oracle
2 6 (13.33%) MuleSoft
2 6 (13.33%) OutSystems
3 1 (2.22%) Salesforce