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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 29 34
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 9 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 3.90% 0.50% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 0.61% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £368 - £184
25th Percentile £432 - £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £162 £193
Median % change year-on-year +213.33% -15.61% -35.83%
75th Percentile £527 - £201
90th Percentile £541 - £201
South Wales median daily rate £518 £162 £193
% change year-on-year +218.56% -15.61% -69.20%

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 191 164 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 82.68% 82.00% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 120 163
10th Percentile £212 £168 £180
25th Percentile £290 £213 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £444 £420
Median % change year-on-year -7.04% +5.65% -6.67%
75th Percentile £498 £550 £538
90th Percentile £638 £676 £635
South Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -2.94% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 4
10th Percentile £12.73 £21.18 £17.30
25th Percentile £13.08 £22.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £16.00 £25.60 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% -11.72% +99.31%
75th Percentile £19.08 £27.50 £45.31
90th Percentile £20.60 £43.25 £50.38
South Wales median hourly rate £18.69 £25.09 £29.83
% change year-on-year -25.53% -15.90% +49.50%

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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 4 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) GitHub
1 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Cucumber
1 4 (44.44%) Postman
2 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
2 2 (22.22%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Billing
3 1 (11.11%) Local Government
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Lead
1 4 (44.44%) Test Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Tester
4 1 (11.11%) QA Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Playwright
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
2 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
2 2 (22.22%) Entity Framework
2 2 (22.22%) Jest
2 2 (22.22%) Next.js
2 2 (22.22%) React
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Client/Server
2 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
3 1 (11.11%) NHS
3 1 (11.11%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
3 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (55.56%) Kanban
4 5 (55.56%) Regression Testing
4 5 (55.56%) Scrum
5 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (44.44%) SDLC
6 3 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (33.33%) Manual Testing
6 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 2 (22.22%) Case Management
7 2 (22.22%) Coaching
7 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
7 2 (22.22%) DevOps
7 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
7 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
8 1 (11.11%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Ruby
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 2 (22.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) HP