Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

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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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 8 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 3.14% - 3.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% - 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 8
10th Percentile £356 - £186
25th Percentile £423 - £197
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - £522
Median % change year-on-year - - +73.92%
75th Percentile £509 - £557
90th Percentile £532 - £570
South Wales median daily rate £509 - £509
% change year-on-year - - -18.64%

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 203 157 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 79.61% 88.70% 78.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 130 155
10th Percentile £230 £200 £166
25th Percentile £293 £261 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £431 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.47% -5.56%
75th Percentile £506 £550 £545
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
South Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £444
% change year-on-year -2.94% -4.23% -6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile - - £13.00
25th Percentile - £21.25 £14.88
Median hourly rate £12.21 £24.25 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.65% +34.72% +23.71%
75th Percentile £19.08 £34.06 £35.88
90th Percentile £20.60 £45.88 £46.60
South Wales median hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £23.93
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.98% +22.78%

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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 1 March 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 (50.00%) GitHub
1 4 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Postman
2 4 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) JMeter
3 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
3 1 (12.50%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Billing
2 1 (12.50%) Local Government
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 3 (37.50%) Quality Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Test Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Test Leader
4 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Tester
4 1 (12.50%) QA Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
2 1 (12.50%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Kanban
3 5 (62.50%) Regression Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Scrum
4 4 (50.00%) SDLC
5 3 (37.50%) Coaching
5 3 (37.50%) Manual Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (25.00%) Migration
7 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
7 1 (12.50%) Load Testing
7 1 (12.50%) Operations Management
7 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
7 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (12.50%) Test Management
7 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
7 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (12.50%) C
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) HP
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