Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Test Strategy
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 23 26
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +18
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 7 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 2.57% 2.34% 4.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 2.56% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 10
10th Percentile £356 £307 £458
25th Percentile £423 £310 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £322 £535
Median % change year-on-year +43.04% -39.89% +78.33%
75th Percentile £509 £345 £553
90th Percentile £532 £371 £570
South Wales median daily rate £545 £322 £535
% change year-on-year +69.47% -39.89% -14.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Test Strategy 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 217 156 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 79.78% 91.23% 76.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 130 141
10th Percentile £249 £195 £160
25th Percentile £305 £264 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £490
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -18.37% +8.89%
75th Percentile £550 £536 £563
90th Percentile £775 £625 £645
South Wales median daily rate £425 £400 £483
% change year-on-year +6.25% -17.10% +1.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 3
10th Percentile - £12.21 £13.00
25th Percentile - £14.47 £14.88
Median hourly rate £12.21 £22.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.73% +25.00% +22.26%
75th Percentile £19.98 £26.56 £35.88
90th Percentile £21.00 £40.63 £46.60
South Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £22.00 £22.68
% change year-on-year -3.41% -3.00% +25.03%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Strategy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Test Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Test Strategy

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Cardiff over the 6 months to 15 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Cardiff

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Test Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Test Strategy

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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 4 (57.14%) GitHub
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Postman
2 4 (57.14%) Cucumber
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) JMeter
3 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Billing
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Quality Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Test Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Test Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Test Leader
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Tester
3 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Playwright
2 1 (14.29%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Kanban
2 5 (71.43%) Regression Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Scrum
2 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 4 (57.14%) SDLC
4 3 (42.86%) Manual Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Coaching
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Migration
6 1 (14.29%) DevOps
6 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (14.29%) Performance Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
6 1 (14.29%) Resilience Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Ruby
2 1 (14.29%) C
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) HP