Taurus Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Taurus Test Automation Framework
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Taurus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Taurus 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.39% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £455 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - -
75th Percentile £465 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £460 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cardiff

Taurus falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 47 31 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 18.43% 17.13% 30.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 23 65
10th Percentile £253 £199 £210
25th Percentile £305 £369 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £520 £425
Median % change year-on-year -19.71% +22.35% -12.82%
75th Percentile £507 £550 £531
90th Percentile £608 £579 £551
South Wales median daily rate £425 £523 £425
% change year-on-year -18.66% +22.94% -19.05%

Taurus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Test Leader
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft