QA Contracts in Cardiff

Quality Assurance (QA)
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 40 49
Rank change year-on-year +28 +9 -14
Contract jobs citing QA 26 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 11.82% 1.74% 1.46%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 63.41% 13.64% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 6 2
10th Percentile £363 £383 £429
25th Percentile £500 £490 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £539 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% +16.49% +6.69%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £484
90th Percentile £674 £625 £486
South Wales median daily rate £525 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -8.65% +15.00% +42.86%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cardiff

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance 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 quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 41 44 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 18.64% 12.79% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 32 32
10th Percentile £263 £212 £314
25th Percentile £480 £280 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +8.11% +19.35%
75th Percentile £591 £578 £550
90th Percentile £667 £613 £650
South Wales median daily rate £513 £500 £494
% change year-on-year +2.50% +1.27% +3.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £12.28 £12.24
Median hourly rate - £12.58 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year - +0.64% -
75th Percentile - £12.87 £12.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £15.61 £10.92 £12.50
% change year-on-year +42.93% -12.61% -34.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Cardiff over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in Cardiff.

Hourly rate trend for QA in Cardiff

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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) Mendix
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) GitHub
2 13 (50.00%) Azure
3 12 (46.15%) AWS
4 9 (34.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (26.92%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (19.23%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (19.23%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.85%) GCP
8 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
8 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) Firewall
1 8 (30.77%) TCP/IP
1 8 (30.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (65.38%) MySQL
2 13 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 7 (26.92%) RDBMS
4 5 (19.23%) SQL Server
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.85%) Power BI
6 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 10 (38.46%) Postman
3 8 (30.77%) GitLab
4 4 (15.38%) Storybook
5 1 (3.85%) AppScan
5 1 (3.85%) Burp Suite
5 1 (3.85%) Git
5 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.85%) Subversion
General
1 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Developer
2 9 (34.62%) DBA
3 7 (26.92%) Administrator
4 6 (23.08%) PHP Developer
5 5 (19.23%) Full Stack Developer
5 5 (19.23%) Full Stack PHP Developer
6 4 (15.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (15.38%) MySQL DBA
7 3 (11.54%) Azure Administrator
7 3 (11.54%) SQL DBA
8 2 (7.69%) Consultant
8 2 (7.69%) QA Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Project Officer
9 1 (3.85%) Project Support Officer
9 1 (3.85%) QA Test Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Senior DBA
9 1 (3.85%) Senior SQL DBA
9 1 (3.85%) Software Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Test Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) Vue
2 8 (30.77%) Laravel
3 6 (23.08%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (23.08%) Playwright
3 6 (23.08%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (53.85%) Product Ownership
2 10 (38.46%) Public Cloud
3 4 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 16 (61.54%) Linux
2 9 (34.62%) Windows
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) Project Management
2 17 (65.38%) Agile
3 15 (57.69%) Test Automation
4 14 (53.85%) CI/CD
5 12 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (38.46%) Analytics
7 9 (34.62%) Change Control
8 8 (30.77%) DevOps
9 7 (26.92%) Full Stack Development
10 6 (23.08%) Data Analytics
10 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
11 5 (19.23%) Data Protection
11 5 (19.23%) Front End Development
12 4 (15.38%) Manual Testing
12 4 (15.38%) Migration
12 4 (15.38%) Objectives and Key Results
12 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (15.38%) Unit Testing
13 3 (11.54%) Kanban
13 3 (11.54%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) PHP
2 6 (23.08%) SQL
3 5 (19.23%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.85%) Degree
1 1 (3.85%) SANS
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Ansible
1 9 (34.62%) Grafana
1 9 (34.62%) Nagios
1 9 (34.62%) Terraform
2 6 (23.08%) Graylog
2 6 (23.08%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.85%) HP Fortify
3 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.85%) Nessus
3 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.85%) Puppet
3 1 (3.85%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 16 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Splunk
3 1 (3.85%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.85%) Veracode