Software Testing Jobs in Cardiff

Software Testing
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 57 78
Rank change year-on-year +10 +21 -21
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 21 10 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.57% 1.84% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 1.90% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 19 8 6
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,689 £33,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,000 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £46,998 £48,438
90th Percentile - £56,219 £50,000
South Wales median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £42,750
% change year-on-year +16.67% +5.26% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Software 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 609 527 846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 74.63% 96.88% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 536 377 603
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £34,250
25th Percentile £38,125 £41,250 £39,182
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,825 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,125 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £47,029 £46,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.14% -7.00% +11.11%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Cardiff

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Software Testing in Cardiff

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Cardiff over the 6 months to 22 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in Cardiff

Software Testing
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 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) BrowserStack
3 1 (4.76%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) JMeter
1 7 (33.33%) Postman
2 6 (28.57%) Git
2 6 (28.57%) SoapUI
2 6 (28.57%) Visual Studio
3 5 (23.81%) Selenium
4 4 (19.05%) Cypress.io
5 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
5 3 (14.29%) GitLab
5 3 (14.29%) JIRA
6 1 (4.76%) Appium
6 1 (4.76%) REST Assured
6 1 (4.76%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Lead
2 6 (28.57%) QA Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) QA Leader
2 6 (28.57%) Quality Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Test Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Automation Test Lead
4 4 (19.05%) Test Leader
5 3 (14.29%) JavaScript Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Python Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) QA Tester
5 3 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Tester
6 2 (9.52%) Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Software Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Software Test Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Test Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) Head of AI
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (28.57%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (61.90%) CI/CD
3 8 (38.10%) Analytics
3 8 (38.10%) DevOps
3 8 (38.10%) ETL
3 8 (38.10%) Migration
4 7 (33.33%) BDD
4 7 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 6 (28.57%) Change Management
5 6 (28.57%) Defect Management
5 6 (28.57%) Fintech
6 5 (23.81%) Agile
6 5 (23.81%) Test Scripting
6 5 (23.81%) Test Strategy
7 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
8 3 (14.29%) API Testing
8 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
8 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 3 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) JavaScript
2 6 (28.57%) SQL
3 4 (19.05%) C#
3 4 (19.05%) Java
4 3 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) MuleSoft
1 6 (28.57%) OutSystems
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle