Test Strategy Contracts in Cardiff

Test Strategy
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for Test Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Strategy over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 44 53
Rank change year-on-year +19 +9 -
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 10 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 4.50% 0.58% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.85% 0.67% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 1
10th Percentile £458 - -
25th Percentile £504 £275 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £300 £475
Median % change year-on-year +78.33% -36.84% -
75th Percentile £553 £325 £488
90th Percentile £570 - -
South Wales median daily rate £535 £625 £475
% change year-on-year -14.40% +31.58% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Test Strategy 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 171 299 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 77.03% 86.67% 81.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 234 337
10th Percentile £188 £210 £257
25th Percentile £369 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £563 £561 £538
90th Percentile £645 £625 £638
South Wales median daily rate £500 £475 £478
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.52% +9.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 6
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.64 £13.75
25th Percentile £14.88 £13.00 £15.97
Median hourly rate £18.00 £14.72 £20.63
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -28.62% +25.86%
75th Percentile £35.88 £21.98 £25.25
90th Percentile £46.60 £24.38 £37.88
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £25.00
% change year-on-year +25.03% -27.44% +25.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Cardiff over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) GitHub
1 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Postman
2 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Lead
1 2 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (10.00%) Configuration Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) GUI Tester
2 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Playwright
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) LIMS
1 6 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Change Management
1 6 (60.00%) Information Management
1 6 (60.00%) Service Management
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Project Management
3 3 (30.00%) Kanban
3 3 (30.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Regression Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Health Informatics
4 1 (10.00%) Informatics
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (10.00%) SDLC
4 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Test Management
4 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
1 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) InterSystems
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft