QA Test Engineer Contracts in Wales

Quality Assurance Test Engineer
UK > Wales

The median Quality Assurance Test Engineer daily rate in Wales is £509 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Test Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.27% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £504 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £438 £628 £419
% change year-on-year -30.28% +49.85% -6.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Wales. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Wales with a recognized job title 332 587 932
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.01% 95.45% 96.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 448 687
10th Percentile £173 £180 £185
25th Percentile £350 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £548 £575 £575
90th Percentile £634 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 32 38
10th Percentile £11.75 £13.13 £11.15
25th Percentile £12.25 £15.25 £12.43
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.14 £19.33
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -6.16% +14.89%
75th Percentile £25.36 £19.98 £25.56
90th Percentile £87.08 £47.25 £47.03
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

QA Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings that featured QA Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for QA Test Engineer in Wales

QA Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Test Engineer in Wales.

Daily rate trend for QA Test Engineer in Wales

QA Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Test Engineer within the Wales region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
South Wales - 1 £509 -
QA Test Engineer
UK

QA Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, QA Test Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Wales region featuring QA Test Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership

QA Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft