QA Automation Contracts in Wales

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > Wales

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.26% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £485 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - -
75th Percentile £495 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

QA 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 Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 308 553 827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 78.57% 87.22% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 426 604
10th Percentile £166 £184 £200
25th Percentile £361 £331 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 28 30
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.78 £14.18
25th Percentile £14.78 £16.98 £19.91
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +19.59% -20.78% +18.75%
75th Percentile £51.75 £26.50 £30.13
90th Percentile £86.00 £49.13 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in Wales

QA Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for QA Automation in Wales

QA Automation
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation within the Wales region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
South Wales - 1 £490 -
QA Automation
UK

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA