Manual Testing Job Trends in Cardiff

Manual Testing
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Manual Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 34 59
Rank change year-on-year -3 +25 -
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 1 3 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.25% 1.44% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.57% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £40,275
25th Percentile £22,500 - £43,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 - £45,000
75th Percentile £27,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £25,000 - £45,000
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Manual 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 276 191 499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 69.00% 91.83% 82.48%
Number of salaries quoted 181 130 450
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,238
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% +1.37%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,656 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +8.42% +1.28%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Manual Testing job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Manual Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Manual Testing

Manual 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Junior
1 1 (100.00%) Junior Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP