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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 25 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +18
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 6 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 2.33% 2.55% 4.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 2.76% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 10
10th Percentile £423 £307 £458
25th Percentile £444 £310 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £322 £535
Median % change year-on-year +50.66% -39.89% -
75th Percentile £509 £345 £553
90th Percentile £538 £371 £570
South Wales median daily rate £509 £322 £535
% change year-on-year +58.28% -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 199 145 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 77.13% 92.36% 75.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 118 130
10th Percentile £250 £196 £188
25th Percentile £308 £294 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £403 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.59% -19.50% +8.70%
75th Percentile £550 £519 £553
90th Percentile £775 £625 £638
South Wales median daily rate £425 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +3.03% -17.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 3
10th Percentile - - £13.00
25th Percentile - £12.21 £14.88
Median hourly rate £12.21 £22.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.73% +25.00% +9.46%
75th Percentile £12.71 £23.75 £35.88
90th Percentile £21.00 £41.75 £46.60
South Wales median hourly rate £21.50 £20.62 £22.68
% change year-on-year +4.28% -9.09% +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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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 (66.67%) GitHub
1 4 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Postman
2 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (16.67%) JMeter
3 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Test Leader
3 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Tester
3 1 (16.67%) QA Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Kanban
1 5 (83.33%) Regression Testing
1 5 (83.33%) Scrum
1 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) SDLC
3 3 (50.00%) Manual Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Coaching
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (16.67%) Model Validation
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Resilience Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Ruby
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Google