Test Management Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Test Management
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Test Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 41 42
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +20
Contract jobs citing Test Management 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.17% 0.89% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.03% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £301 - £253
25th Percentile £332 - £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £162 £441
Median % change year-on-year +138.53% -63.16% +10.25%
75th Percentile £447 £194 £567
90th Percentile £480 £213 £639
Wales median daily rate £388 £162 £210
% change year-on-year +138.53% -22.64% -47.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

Test Management 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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 271 292 314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 79.01% 86.39% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 168 236
10th Percentile £206 £168 £166
25th Percentile £290 £213 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £503 £556 £588
90th Percentile £613 £689 £650
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -2.94% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 38 23
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.64 £17.20
25th Percentile £15.16 £20.12 £21.34
Median hourly rate £18.69 £25.27 £27.17
Median % change year-on-year -26.06% -6.98% +36.13%
75th Percentile £24.63 £37.19 £53.13
90th Percentile £85.00 £41.25 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £18.18 £25.27 £27.17
% change year-on-year -28.06% -6.98% +36.44%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Test Management job vacancy trend in South Wales

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Test Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Test Management

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in South Wales over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in South Wales

Test Management
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Test Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Test Management

Test Management
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 Test Management within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 1 January 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 0 3 £388 +138.53% 3
Newport - 1 - - 3
Test Management
Wales

Test Management
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 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
1 3 (75.00%) JMeter
2 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Zephyr
3 1 (25.00%) MSTest
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Billing
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (25.00%) AI
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (25.00%) Scalability Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft