Taurus Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Taurus Test Automation Framework
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Taurus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Taurus 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.25% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £455 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - -
75th Percentile £465 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £460 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Wales

Taurus falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 65 54 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 16.46% 18.18% 23.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 28 75
10th Percentile £263 £206 £208
25th Percentile £321 £315 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £523 £425
Median % change year-on-year -18.66% +22.94% -19.05%
75th Percentile £509 £550 £531
90th Percentile £675 £588 £546
Wales median daily rate £425 £520 £425
% change year-on-year -18.27% +22.35% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 3
10th Percentile £75.75 £18.15 £16.74
25th Percentile £76.88 £20.12 £18.14
Median hourly rate £82.50 £22.00 £20.47
Median % change year-on-year +275.00% +7.47% -9.02%
75th Percentile £85.63 £25.89 £22.11
90th Percentile £86.75 £38.90 £23.09
Wales median hourly rate £80.00 £22.00 £20.47
% change year-on-year +263.64% +7.47% -9.02%

Taurus
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Taurus within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff - 1 £460 -
Taurus
Wales

Taurus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Test Leader
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft