QA Engineer Contracts in Cardiff

Quality Assurance Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in Cardiff is £499 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.93% - 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% - 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £487 - -
25th Percentile £490 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 - £475
75th Percentile £508 - £488
90th Percentile £511 - -
South Wales median daily rate £499 - £475

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cardiff with a recognized job title 201 330 523
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.06% 96.49% 97.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 265 403
10th Percentile £199 £181 £231
25th Percentile £367 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £537
90th Percentile £619 £625 £638
South Wales median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 5
10th Percentile £11.32 £12.71 £13.45
25th Percentile £11.75 £13.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 £16.45 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.91% -12.29% +14.42%
75th Percentile £18.00 £20.92 £23.75
90th Percentile £39.45 £24.25 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +25.03% -8.89% +10.61%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings that featured QA Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Cardiff

QA Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for QA Engineer in Cardiff

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, QA Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cardiff region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft