QA Contracts in Cardiff

Quality Assurance (QA)
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 40 48
Rank change year-on-year +27 +8 -11
Contract jobs citing QA 22 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 10.33% 1.49% 1.50%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 59.46% 11.90% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 5 2
10th Percentile £485 £491 £429
25th Percentile £504 £491 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +24.32% +32.14%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £484
90th Percentile £667 £630 £486
South Wales median daily rate £545 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -5.22% +15.00% +48.15%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cardiff

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 37 42 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 17.37% 12.50% 9.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 31 32
10th Percentile £373 £210 £328
25th Percentile £494 £322 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.10% +5.26% +26.67%
75th Percentile £588 £581 £591
90th Percentile £663 £613 £650
South Wales median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.24
Median hourly rate - - £12.50
75th Percentile - - £12.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £15.61 £10.92 £12.50
% change year-on-year +42.93% -12.61% -32.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Cardiff over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Cardiff

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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 16 (72.73%) GitHub
2 9 (40.91%) AWS
2 9 (40.91%) Azure
3 8 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (22.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) Firewall
1 5 (22.73%) TCP/IP
1 5 (22.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (63.64%) MySQL
2 10 (45.45%) Relational Database
3 4 (18.18%) RDBMS
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 14 (63.64%) Cypress.io
2 10 (45.45%) Postman
3 8 (36.36%) GitLab
4 5 (22.73%) Storybook
5 1 (4.55%) AppScan
5 1 (4.55%) Burp Suite
5 1 (4.55%) Git
5 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.55%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) DBA
2 6 (27.27%) PHP Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Administrator
3 5 (22.73%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 4 (18.18%) MySQL DBA
5 3 (13.64%) Azure Administrator
6 2 (9.09%) QA Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Automation Tester
7 1 (4.55%) Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) GUI Tester
7 1 (4.55%) MySQL Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) QA Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Site Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) SQL DBA
7 1 (4.55%) Test Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) Vue
2 9 (40.91%) Laravel
3 7 (31.82%) Playwright
4 6 (27.27%) React
5 4 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 15 (68.18%) Product Ownership
2 7 (31.82%) Public Cloud
3 3 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (59.09%) Linux
2 6 (27.27%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) Project Management
2 16 (72.73%) Test Automation
3 15 (68.18%) Agile
3 15 (68.18%) CI/CD
4 13 (59.09%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (36.36%) Analytics
6 7 (31.82%) Full Stack Development
7 6 (27.27%) Change Control
7 6 (27.27%) Data Analytics
7 6 (27.27%) DevOps
7 6 (27.27%) Front End Development
8 5 (22.73%) Objectives and Key Results
8 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
8 5 (22.73%) Unit Testing
9 4 (18.18%) Manual Testing
10 3 (13.64%) Data Protection
10 3 (13.64%) Kanban
10 3 (13.64%) Migration
10 3 (13.64%) Regression Testing
10 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) PHP
2 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) SANS
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Ansible
1 6 (27.27%) Grafana
1 6 (27.27%) Nagios
1 6 (27.27%) Terraform
2 4 (18.18%) Graylog
2 4 (18.18%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.55%) HP Fortify
3 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.55%) Nessus
3 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.55%) Puppet
3 1 (4.55%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Splunk
3 1 (4.55%) Checkmarx
3 1 (4.55%) Veracode