Tester Contracts in Wales

Tester
UK > Wales

The median Tester daily rate in Wales is £509 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 - 71
Rank change year-on-year - - -8
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.27% - 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% - 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £368
25th Percentile £504 - £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 - £481
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.24%
75th Percentile £513 - £588
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +7.78%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 334 587 942
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.83% 94.98% 96.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 453 694
10th Percentile £183 £180 £181
25th Percentile £350 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £540 £565 £575
90th Percentile £633 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 32 37
10th Percentile £11.75 £13.13 £11.15
25th Percentile £12.52 £15.25 £12.24
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.14 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -8.89% +20.12%
75th Percentile £42.34 £19.98 £25.75
90th Percentile £86.90 £47.25 £47.09
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings that featured Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Tester in Wales

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in Wales

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Tester in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Tester in Wales

Tester
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 Tester within the Wales region over the 6 months to 7 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 £509 - 2
Tester
UK

Tester Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Tester 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 Wales region featuring Tester in the job title.

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

Tester Skill Set
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
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
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
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft