QA Jobs in South Wales

Quality Assurance (QA)
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 43 36
Rank change year-on-year -10 -7 +22
Permanent jobs citing QA 46 67 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 3.20% 5.82% 6.61%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.70% 38.29% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 35 25 48
10th Percentile £31,000 - £37,500
25th Percentile £42,159 £26,391 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £43,067 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.90% -13.87% +11.11%
75th Percentile £70,000 £44,976 £53,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £62,250 £57,875
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £43,067 £47,665
% change year-on-year +4.49% -9.65% +8.95%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Wales

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 179 175 301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 12.45% 15.20% 20.95%
Number of salaries quoted 94 88 148
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,391 £33,750
25th Percentile £28,290 £32,500 £41,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,666 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -7.91% +14.12%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £64,697
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,075 £80,000
Wales median annual salary £40,000 £43,500 £46,223
% change year-on-year -8.05% -5.89% +8.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in South Wales

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Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in South Wales.

Salary trend for QA in South Wales

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Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in South Wales over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in South Wales

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Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff +27 36 £57,291 +27.31% 18
Gwent -5 6 £24,000 -
Bridgend -17 3 - - 2
Newport -14 1 £43,067 - 2
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Wales

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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 7 (15.22%) Azure
2 6 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.70%) SaaS
4 3 (6.52%) Serverless
5 1 (2.17%) AWS
5 1 (2.17%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (8.70%) MySQL
3 4 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database
4 3 (6.52%) RDBMS
4 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.17%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.17%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) JMeter
1 7 (15.22%) Postman
2 6 (13.04%) Git
2 6 (13.04%) SoapUI
2 6 (13.04%) Visual Studio
3 5 (10.87%) Selenium
4 3 (6.52%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.52%) JDeveloper
5 1 (2.17%) Appium
5 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.17%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.17%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (2.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 11 (23.91%) Finance
2 6 (13.04%) Banking
2 6 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Manufacturing
4 4 (8.70%) Financial Institution
4 4 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.35%) Marketing
6 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Law
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Local Government
6 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.17%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 21 (45.65%) Lead
2 11 (23.91%) QA Engineer
2 11 (23.91%) Quality Engineer
3 10 (21.74%) Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Lead Developer
4 6 (13.04%) QA Leader
5 4 (8.70%) Automation Test Lead
5 4 (8.70%) Software Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Test Leader
5 4 (8.70%) User Researcher
6 3 (6.52%) QA Tester
6 3 (6.52%) Ruby Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Tester
7 2 (4.35%) Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.17%) Compliance Manager
8 1 (2.17%) Junior
8 1 (2.17%) Project Manager
8 1 (2.17%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.39%) .NET
2 7 (15.22%) CSS
2 7 (15.22%) HTML
3 6 (13.04%) .NET Core
3 6 (13.04%) ASP.NET
4 4 (8.70%) JSON
4 4 (8.70%) Laravel
4 4 (8.70%) REST
5 3 (6.52%) Node.js
5 3 (6.52%) React
6 1 (2.17%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (2.17%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (13.04%) Low-Code
1 6 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.35%) Blog
3 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.17%) FMCG
3 1 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) Mentoring
2 15 (32.61%) Test Automation
3 14 (30.43%) Agile
3 14 (30.43%) CI/CD
3 14 (30.43%) Software Testing
4 10 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (19.57%) DevOps
6 7 (15.22%) Change Management
6 7 (15.22%) Fintech
6 7 (15.22%) Microservices
6 7 (15.22%) Roadmaps
6 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
6 7 (15.22%) Translating Business Requirements
7 6 (13.04%) Analytics
7 6 (13.04%) Code Optimisation
7 6 (13.04%) Defect Management
7 6 (13.04%) ETL
7 6 (13.04%) Migration
7 6 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (13.04%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.96%) JavaScript
2 10 (21.74%) C#
3 7 (15.22%) Java
4 5 (10.87%) SQL
5 4 (8.70%) PHP
6 3 (6.52%) Bash
6 3 (6.52%) Go
6 3 (6.52%) Perl
6 3 (6.52%) Python
6 3 (6.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Docker
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) Oracle
2 6 (13.04%) MuleSoft
2 6 (13.04%) OutSystems
3 1 (2.17%) Salesforce