Software Testing Jobs in Cardiff

Software Testing
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 56 83
Rank change year-on-year +11 +27 -26
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 21 10 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.96% 1.82% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 1.88% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 19 8 6
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,689 £33,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,000 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £43,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% +2.35% -3.95%
75th Percentile £70,000 £46,998 £48,438
90th Percentile - £56,219 £50,000
South Wales median annual salary £52,500 £43,500 £42,750
% change year-on-year +20.69% +1.75% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Software Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 545 533 842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 76.76% 97.09% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 489 381 614
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £34,250
25th Percentile £37,750 £40,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £47,500 £46,898 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.28% -6.20% +11.11%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Cardiff

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in Cardiff.

Salary trend for Software Testing in Cardiff

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Cardiff over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in Cardiff

Software Testing
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 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) BrowserStack
3 1 (4.76%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) JMeter
1 7 (33.33%) Postman
2 6 (28.57%) Git
2 6 (28.57%) SoapUI
2 6 (28.57%) Visual Studio
3 5 (23.81%) Selenium
4 4 (19.05%) Cypress.io
5 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
5 3 (14.29%) GitLab
5 3 (14.29%) JIRA
6 1 (4.76%) Appium
6 1 (4.76%) REST Assured
6 1 (4.76%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Lead
2 6 (28.57%) QA Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) QA Leader
2 6 (28.57%) Quality Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Test Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Automation Test Lead
4 4 (19.05%) Test Leader
5 3 (14.29%) JavaScript Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Python Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) QA Tester
5 3 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Tester
6 2 (9.52%) Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Software Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Software Test Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (28.57%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (61.90%) CI/CD
3 8 (38.10%) Analytics
3 8 (38.10%) DevOps
3 8 (38.10%) ETL
3 8 (38.10%) Migration
4 7 (33.33%) BDD
4 7 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 6 (28.57%) Change Management
5 6 (28.57%) Defect Management
5 6 (28.57%) Fintech
6 5 (23.81%) Agile
6 5 (23.81%) Test Scripting
6 5 (23.81%) Test Strategy
7 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
8 3 (14.29%) API Testing
8 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
8 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 3 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) JavaScript
2 6 (28.57%) SQL
3 4 (19.05%) C#
3 4 (19.05%) Java
4 3 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) MuleSoft
1 6 (28.57%) OutSystems
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle