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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 27 32
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +15
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 12 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 6.09% 3.07% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.78% 4.05% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 2
10th Percentile £305 - £185
25th Percentile £309 £162 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £210 £196
Median % change year-on-year +57.70% +7.01% -60.75%
75th Percentile £473 £495 £201
90th Percentile £528 £506 £201
South Wales median daily rate £331 £210 £200
% change year-on-year +57.70% +5.00% -60.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.60 -
South Wales median hourly rate - £25.60 -

All Process and 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 177 173 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 89.85% 75.88% 90.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 119 154
10th Percentile £228 £140 £204
25th Percentile £303 £200 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% -2.78% -6.15%
75th Percentile £501 £550 £561
90th Percentile £675 £638 £638
South Wales median daily rate £403 £412 £475
% change year-on-year -2.37% -13.21% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 6
10th Percentile £12.21 - £19.13
25th Percentile - £15.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £13.08 £20.08 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.86% -17.20% +34.72%
75th Percentile £17.00 £25.60 £26.38
90th Percentile £22.04 £25.79 £34.50
South Wales median hourly rate £14.61 £25.36 £26.00
% change year-on-year -42.39% -2.46% +30.00%

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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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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 19 September 2025.

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 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) RTP
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Postman
1 5 (41.67%) Selenium
1 5 (41.67%) SpecFlow
2 2 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Local Government
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Lead
2 5 (41.67%) Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Business Test Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Test Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Test Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Lead Test Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Payments Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) CSS
1 5 (41.67%) HTML
1 5 (41.67%) JSON
1 5 (41.67%) REST
1 5 (41.67%) SOAP
1 5 (41.67%) XML
2 3 (25.00%) Blazor
2 3 (25.00%) GWT
3 2 (16.67%) .NET
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Core
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 2 (16.67%) Entity Framework
3 2 (16.67%) Jest
3 2 (16.67%) Next.js
3 2 (16.67%) React
4 1 (8.33%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (41.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 4 (33.33%) NHS
3 3 (25.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (16.67%) Client/Server
5 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Mentoring
3 5 (41.67%) Business Strategy
3 5 (41.67%) Coaching
3 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
3 5 (41.67%) Data Protection
3 5 (41.67%) Open Source
3 5 (41.67%) Product Management
3 5 (41.67%) Product Requirements
3 5 (41.67%) Scenario Testing
3 5 (41.67%) Software Testing
3 5 (41.67%) Test Scripting
3 5 (41.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 5 (41.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Degree
2 5 (41.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (41.67%) ISEB
2 5 (41.67%) ISTQB
3 4 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) SEPA
2 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft