Manual Testing Contracts in Cardiff

Manual Testing
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for Manual Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Manual Testing over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 41 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.88% 0.88% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 1.01% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £491 - -
25th Percentile £499 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.13% - -
75th Percentile £557 - -
90th Percentile £637 - -
South Wales median daily rate £509 £513 -
% change year-on-year -0.78% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Manual Testing 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 Cardiff with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 297 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 76.06% 87.35% 81.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 235 331
10th Percentile £190 £201 £255
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £553 £574 £538
90th Percentile £644 £629 £638
South Wales median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.64 £13.45
25th Percentile £14.88 £13.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £14.72 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -21.48% +14.42%
75th Percentile £35.88 £21.98 £23.75
90th Percentile £46.60 £24.38 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £23.75
% change year-on-year +25.03% -23.62% +15.85%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Cardiff

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in Cardiff

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in Cardiff over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in Cardiff

Manual 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 4 (100.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Postman
2 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) AppScan
3 1 (25.00%) Burp Suite
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (25.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GUI Tester
2 1 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Project Management
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) Regression Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Application Security
3 1 (25.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) QA Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Graylog
1 1 (25.00%) HP Fortify
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Nagios
1 1 (25.00%) Nessus
1 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
1 1 (25.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Veracode