QA Contracts in Cardiff

Quality Assurance (QA)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA 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 23 13 41
Rank change year-on-year -10 +28 +10
Contract jobs citing QA 7 22 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 4.38% 10.38% 1.48%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 36.84% 59.46% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 21 5
10th Percentile £433 £485 £491
25th Percentile £463 £504 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +24.32%
75th Percentile £562 £588 £600
90th Percentile £576 £667 £630
South Wales median daily rate £525 £545 £575
% change year-on-year -3.67% -5.22% +15.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cardiff

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 19 37 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 11.88% 17.45% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 33 32
10th Percentile £186 £373 £212
25th Percentile £303 £494 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £526 £501
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +4.84% +5.53%
75th Percentile £438 £588 £578
90th Percentile £529 £663 £613
South Wales median daily rate £370 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -27.80% +2.50% -

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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 1 May 2025.

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 3 (42.86%) Apache
1 3 (42.86%) JBoss
1 3 (42.86%) nginx
1 3 (42.86%) WebLogic
1 3 (42.86%) WebLogic Portal
1 3 (42.86%) WebSphere
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) GitHub
1 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
2 1 (14.29%) Storybook
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) QA Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) JWT
1 1 (14.29%) Laravel
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) Playwright
1 1 (14.29%) Vue
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) API Management
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) API Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) QA Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Smoke Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) PHP
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CSSLP
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 3 (42.86%) LXC
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Argo
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Nagios
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft