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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 7 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 3.07% - 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% - 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £343 - £184
25th Percentile £415 - £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £193
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.83%
75th Percentile £509 - £201
90th Percentile £538 - £201
South Wales median daily rate £509 - £196
% change year-on-year - - -68.60%

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 186 150 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 81.58% 84.75% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 118 145
10th Percentile £213 £179 £183
25th Percentile £290 £245 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £431 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.81% -11.11%
75th Percentile £507 £569 £538
90th Percentile £650 £658 £621
South Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -2.94% - -12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile - £24.72 £21.90
25th Percentile £12.21 £25.05 £27.75
Median hourly rate £16.44 £26.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.79% -35.00% +174.91%
75th Percentile £20.50 £40.63 £48.13
90th Percentile £20.65 £48.50 £51.50
South Wales median hourly rate £19.19 £22.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -12.77% -33.33% +65.75%

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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 25 January 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 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Cucumber
1 4 (57.14%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Billing
2 1 (14.29%) Local Government
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Test Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Quality Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Tester
4 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
4 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Playwright
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
3 5 (71.43%) Kanban
3 5 (71.43%) Regression Testing
3 5 (71.43%) Scrum
4 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 4 (57.14%) SDLC
5 3 (42.86%) Manual Testing
6 2 (28.57%) Coaching
6 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
7 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 1 (14.29%) Migration
7 1 (14.29%) Open Source
7 1 (14.29%) Product Requirements
7 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
7 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
7 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
7 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Ruby
2 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) HP