Exploratory Testing Job Trends in Cardiff

Exploratory Testing
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - 69
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.32% - 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% - 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,221 - £57,500
75th Percentile - - £58,750
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £39,221 - £57,500

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Exploratory Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 453 155 631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 72.95% 90.12% 74.94%
Number of salaries quoted 327 107 551
10th Percentile £29,300 £26,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,250 £37,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,086 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £46,802
% change year-on-year -4.76% +12.18% -1.47%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Exploratory Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Exploratory Testing job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Exploratory Testing
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Exploratory Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Exploratory Testing

Exploratory Testing
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) QA