QA Automation Jobs in Cardiff

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA Automation over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 65 64
Rank change year-on-year +34 -1 -
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 1 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.55% 0.15% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.19% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £51,750
25th Percentile - £81,250 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £82,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +32.00% -
75th Percentile - £83,750 £69,375
90th Percentile - - £71,250
South Wales median annual salary - £82,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +32.00% +11.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

QA Automation 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 165 527 561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 90.16% 79.73% 97.23%
Number of salaries quoted 118 473 400
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,524 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £50,685 £50,619
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% +0.13% -3.58%
75th Percentile £67,406 £67,500 £67,178
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £52,796 £47,500 £45,496
% change year-on-year +11.15% +4.41% -9.01%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in Cardiff

QA Automation
Salary Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Automation in Cardiff.

Salary trend for QA Automation in Cardiff

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Katalon Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA