Quality Engineer Jobs in Cardiff

Quality Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Quality Engineer salary in Cardiff is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 - 76
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 8 0 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.21% - 1.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% - 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 15
10th Percentile £35,000 - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £59,500
75th Percentile - - £70,250
90th Percentile - - £93,750
South Wales median annual salary £35,000 - £59,500

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cardiff with a recognized job title 619 527 836
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.65% 91.18% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 538 403 622
10th Percentile £27,157 £31,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £39,625 £39,363
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,575 £67,070 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,625 £77,250 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings that featured Quality Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in Cardiff

Quality Engineer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Quality Engineer in Cardiff.

Salary trend for Quality Engineer in Cardiff

Quality Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quality Engineer in Cardiff over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Quality Engineer in Cardiff

Quality Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Quality Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the Cardiff region featuring Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Migration
1 6 (75.00%) Software Testing
1 6 (75.00%) QA
1 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
1 6 (75.00%) SoapUI
1 6 (75.00%) Analytics
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
1 6 (75.00%) MuleSoft
1 6 (75.00%) Defect Management
1 6 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
1 6 (75.00%) Visual Studio
1 6 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (75.00%) ETL
1 6 (75.00%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (75.00%) OutSystems
1 6 (75.00%) Postman
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (75.00%) Low-Code
1 6 (75.00%) Roadmaps
1 6 (75.00%) Change Management
1 6 (75.00%) JMeter
2 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (25.00%) GMP
2 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance

Quality Engineer Skill Set
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 6 (75.00%) Azure
1 6 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) JMeter
1 6 (75.00%) Postman
1 6 (75.00%) SoapUI
1 6 (75.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (75.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Analytics
1 6 (75.00%) Change Management
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (75.00%) Defect Management
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
1 6 (75.00%) ETL
1 6 (75.00%) Migration
1 6 (75.00%) Roadmaps
1 6 (75.00%) Software Testing
1 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) QA
2 2 (25.00%) GMP
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) MuleSoft
1 6 (75.00%) OutSystems