QA Automation Contracts in Cardiff

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 34 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.63% 0.47% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.62% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £485 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £490 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £538 £495 -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £525 £490 -
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

QA Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 146 161 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 91.25% 75.94% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 132 233
10th Percentile £196 £189 £201
25th Percentile £269 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -0.54%
75th Percentile £525 £555 £575
90th Percentile £625 £644 £630
South Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £13.00 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £14.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.00 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.46% -12.29%
75th Percentile £23.75 £35.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.75 £46.60 £24.50
South Wales median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in Cardiff

QA Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Automation in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for QA Automation in Cardiff

QA Automation
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) QA Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) QA Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Smoke Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA