Test Automation Contracts in South Wales

Automated Testing
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 52 20
Rank change year-on-year +32 -32 +13
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 22 6 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 6.49% 1.16% 8.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.09% 1.30% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 5 56
10th Percentile £350 £420 £365
25th Percentile £369 £450 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +9.52% +25.37%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £575
90th Percentile £551 £653 £606
Wales median daily rate £509 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -2.68% -0.48% +23.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 272 460 755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 80.24% 88.80% 83.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 351 560
10th Percentile £160 £190 £256
25th Percentile £352 £330 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £650
Wales median daily rate £495 £475 £487
% change year-on-year +4.21% -2.48% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 23 27
10th Percentile £11.21 £16.37 £14.31
25th Percentile £15.35 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -19.38% +9.76%
75th Percentile £52.31 £22.11 £36.94
90th Percentile £87.62 £49.75 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £23.75
% change year-on-year +19.59% -20.78% +23.38%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in South Wales

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in South Wales

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in South Wales over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in South Wales

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in South Wales

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Cardiff +28 22 £509 -0.78% 11
Test Automation
Wales

Test Automation
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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) GitHub
2 8 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (27.27%) Azure
4 4 (18.18%) AWS
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) GCP
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) MySQL
2 7 (31.82%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (63.64%) Cypress.io
2 10 (45.45%) Postman
3 8 (36.36%) GitLab
4 5 (22.73%) Selenium
4 5 (22.73%) Storybook
5 4 (18.18%) Cucumber
6 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
7 2 (9.09%) JMeter
8 1 (4.55%) AppScan
8 1 (4.55%) Burp Suite
8 1 (4.55%) Git
8 1 (4.55%) JIRA
8 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
8 1 (4.55%) Subversion
General
1 2 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) PHP Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Test Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Full Stack PHP Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Test Automation Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (9.09%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Automation Tester
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Full Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) GUI Tester
6 1 (4.55%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Site Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Test Analyst
6 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 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 15 (68.18%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.55%) NHS
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) CI/CD
2 16 (72.73%) Project Management
3 13 (59.09%) Agile
3 13 (59.09%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (31.82%) Full Stack Development
5 6 (27.27%) Analytics
5 6 (27.27%) Front End Development
6 5 (22.73%) Objectives and Key Results
6 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
6 5 (22.73%) Unit Testing
7 4 (18.18%) BDD
7 4 (18.18%) Data Analytics
7 4 (18.18%) Manual Testing
8 3 (13.64%) DevOps
8 3 (13.64%) Kanban
8 3 (13.64%) Regression Testing
8 3 (13.64%) Scrum
8 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy
9 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
9 2 (9.09%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) PHP
2 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
3 3 (13.64%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) ISEB
1 1 (4.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (72.73%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
1 1 (4.55%) Grafana
1 1 (4.55%) Graylog
1 1 (4.55%) HP Fortify
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Nagios
1 1 (4.55%) Nessus
1 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
1 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.55%) Puppet
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
1 1 (4.55%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Checkmarx
2 1 (4.55%) Splunk
2 1 (4.55%) Veracode