QA Contracts in Wales

Quality Assurance (QA)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 43 60
Rank change year-on-year +26 +17 -11
Contract jobs citing QA 26 18 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 6.93% 2.92% 1.76%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 36.11% 19.78% 17.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 7 8
10th Percentile £368 £441 £328
25th Percentile £500 £491 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +16.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £555
90th Percentile £667 £620 £612
UK median daily rate £504 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +0.80% -1.96% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £10.92 -
UK median hourly rate £15.38 £22.49 £46.00
% change year-on-year -31.60% -51.12% +130.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Wales

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 72 91 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 19.20% 14.75% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 55 67
10th Percentile £144 £250 £229
25th Percentile £313 £278 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £551 £549 £581
90th Percentile £680 £588 £660
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 10
10th Percentile £12.26 - £10.49
25th Percentile £14.15 - £10.66
Median hourly rate £15.61 £10.92 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year +42.93% -14.34% -37.97%
75th Percentile £16.98 £23.02 £47.40
90th Percentile £19.07 £48.75 -
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £27.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +26.13% +31.99%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Wales over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for QA in Wales

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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 within the Wales region over the 6 months to 9 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 +25 25 £545 -5.22% 21
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UK

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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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) GitHub
2 9 (34.62%) AWS
2 9 (34.62%) Azure
3 8 (30.77%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (19.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
6 3 (11.54%) WhatsApp
7 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) Firewall
1 5 (19.23%) TCP/IP
1 5 (19.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (53.85%) MySQL
2 10 (38.46%) Relational Database
3 4 (15.38%) RDBMS
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 14 (53.85%) Cypress.io
2 10 (38.46%) Postman
3 8 (30.77%) GitLab
4 5 (19.23%) Storybook
5 1 (3.85%) AppScan
5 1 (3.85%) Burp Suite
5 1 (3.85%) Git
5 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.85%) Subversion
General
1 1 (3.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) DBA
2 6 (23.08%) PHP Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Administrator
3 5 (19.23%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 4 (15.38%) MySQL DBA
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Administrator
5 3 (11.54%) Coordinator
5 3 (11.54%) Project Coordinator
6 2 (7.69%) QA Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) QA Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) QA Test Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) SAP Test Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Senior QA Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Senior QA Test Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Test Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) SQL DBA
7 1 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) Vue
2 9 (34.62%) Laravel
3 7 (26.92%) Playwright
4 6 (23.08%) React
5 4 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 15 (57.69%) Product Ownership
2 7 (26.92%) Public Cloud
3 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (50.00%) Linux
2 6 (23.08%) Windows
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) Project Management
2 16 (61.54%) Test Automation
3 15 (57.69%) Agile
3 15 (57.69%) CI/CD
4 13 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (30.77%) Analytics
6 7 (26.92%) Full Stack Development
7 6 (23.08%) Change Control
7 6 (23.08%) Data Analytics
7 6 (23.08%) DevOps
7 6 (23.08%) Front End Development
8 5 (19.23%) Objectives and Key Results
8 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
8 5 (19.23%) Unit Testing
9 4 (15.38%) Manual Testing
9 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (11.54%) Migration
10 3 (11.54%) Regression Testing
10 3 (11.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) PHP
2 6 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 3 (11.54%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) SANS
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Ansible
1 6 (23.08%) Grafana
1 6 (23.08%) Nagios
1 6 (23.08%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) Graylog
2 4 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.85%) HP Fortify
3 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.85%) Nessus
3 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.85%) Puppet
3 1 (3.85%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Splunk
3 1 (3.85%) Ariba
3 1 (3.85%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.85%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) Veracode