Test Automation Contracts in Cardiff

Automated Testing
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 41 34
Rank change year-on-year +28 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 22 5 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 10.33% 1.49% 4.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.58% 1.69% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 4 17
10th Percentile £350 £415 £363
25th Percentile £369 £438 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £513 £426
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% +20.31% +3.27%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £488
90th Percentile £551 £593 £631
South Wales median daily rate £509 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -11.57% +9.52% +25.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Test Automation 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 162 296 430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 76.06% 88.10% 81.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 233 328
10th Percentile £190 £201 £261
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £463
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -0.54% +15.63%
75th Percentile £553 £575 £542
90th Percentile £644 £630 £650
South Wales median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile £13.00 - £13.45
25th Percentile £14.88 £13.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.45 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.46% -12.29% +14.42%
75th Percentile £35.88 £23.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £46.60 £24.50 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £22.50
% change year-on-year +25.03% -19.38% +9.76%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Cardiff

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Cardiff

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Cardiff over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Cardiff

Test 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) GitHub
2 8 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (27.27%) Azure
4 4 (18.18%) AWS
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) GCP
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) MySQL
2 7 (31.82%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (63.64%) Cypress.io
2 10 (45.45%) Postman
3 8 (36.36%) GitLab
4 5 (22.73%) Selenium
4 5 (22.73%) Storybook
5 4 (18.18%) Cucumber
6 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
7 2 (9.09%) JMeter
8 1 (4.55%) AppScan
8 1 (4.55%) Burp Suite
8 1 (4.55%) Git
8 1 (4.55%) JIRA
8 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
8 1 (4.55%) Subversion
General
1 2 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) PHP Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Test Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Full Stack PHP Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Test Automation Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (9.09%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Automation Tester
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Full Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) GUI Tester
6 1 (4.55%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Site Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) Vue
2 9 (40.91%) Laravel
3 7 (31.82%) Playwright
4 6 (27.27%) React
5 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 15 (68.18%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.55%) NHS
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) CI/CD
2 16 (72.73%) Project Management
3 13 (59.09%) Agile
3 13 (59.09%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (31.82%) Full Stack Development
5 6 (27.27%) Analytics
5 6 (27.27%) Front End Development
6 5 (22.73%) Objectives and Key Results
6 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
6 5 (22.73%) Unit Testing
7 4 (18.18%) BDD
7 4 (18.18%) Data Analytics
7 4 (18.18%) Manual Testing
8 3 (13.64%) DevOps
8 3 (13.64%) Kanban
8 3 (13.64%) Regression Testing
8 3 (13.64%) Scrum
8 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy
9 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
9 2 (9.09%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) PHP
2 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
3 3 (13.64%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) ISEB
1 1 (4.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (72.73%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
1 1 (4.55%) Grafana
1 1 (4.55%) Graylog
1 1 (4.55%) HP Fortify
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Nagios
1 1 (4.55%) Nessus
1 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
1 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.55%) Puppet
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
1 1 (4.55%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Checkmarx
2 1 (4.55%) Splunk
2 1 (4.55%) Veracode