QA Jobs in Cardiff

Quality Assurance (QA)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 32 59
Rank change year-on-year +8 +27 -41
Permanent jobs citing QA 7 36 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.87% 5.26% 1.63%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.88% 47.37% 16.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6 31 9
10th Percentile £49,375 £32,500 £36,126
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £41,527
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,638 £77,500 £73,500
South Wales median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £43,067
% change year-on-year +4.76% +21.90% -13.87%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cardiff

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 32 76 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 17.68% 11.09% 10.16%
Number of salaries quoted 16 66 44
10th Percentile £37,170 £30,172 £30,666
25th Percentile £43,980 £40,000 £41,458
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +12.90% -7.00%
75th Percentile £72,940 £62,425 £61,650
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
South Wales median annual salary £65,000 £42,500 £43,067
% change year-on-year +52.94% -1.32% -13.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Cardiff

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Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for QA in Cardiff

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Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Cardiff over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Cardiff

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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 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) BGP
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) OSPF
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) JMeter
3 1 (14.29%) Appium
3 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) JUnit
3 1 (14.29%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (14.29%) Maven
3 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
3 1 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) TestNG
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) PMO Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) API Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) QA Automation
4 1 (14.29%) SABSA
4 1 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Groovy
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Iperf
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
1 1 (14.29%) VMware