Manual Testing Contracts in South Wales

Manual Testing
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for Manual Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Manual Testing over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 53 76
Rank change year-on-year +14 +23 -
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 4 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 1.18% 0.76% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 0.86% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £491 £421 -
25th Percentile £499 £453 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% - -
75th Percentile £557 £578 -
90th Percentile £637 £614 -
Wales median daily rate £509 £513 -
% change year-on-year -0.78% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

Manual Testing 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 273 463 751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 80.29% 88.53% 83.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 355 553
10th Percentile £160 £190 £255
25th Percentile £353 £330 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% +9.60%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £650
Wales median daily rate £490 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +3.16% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 24 28
10th Percentile £11.21 £13.97 £14.31
25th Percentile £15.35 £16.98 £19.46
Median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -23.62% +18.75%
75th Percentile £52.31 £21.29 £31.97
90th Percentile £87.62 £49.63 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £18.14 £25.00
% change year-on-year +24.04% -27.44% +31.58%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in South Wales

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in South Wales

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in South Wales over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in South Wales

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in South Wales

Manual Testing
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 Manual Testing within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 25 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 +9 4 £509 +27.13% 1
Manual Testing
Wales

Manual Testing
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 4 (100.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Postman
2 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) AppScan
3 1 (25.00%) Burp Suite
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (25.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GUI Tester
2 1 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Project Management
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) Regression Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Application Security
3 1 (25.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) QA Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Graylog
1 1 (25.00%) HP Fortify
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Nagios
1 1 (25.00%) Nessus
1 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
1 1 (25.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Veracode