Test Automation Jobs in Cardiff

Automated Testing
South Wales > Cardiff

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

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 18 35
Rank change year-on-year -5 +17 -10
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 6 49 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.23% 7.41% 5.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 9.30% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 4 44 15
10th Percentile £45,039 £41,625 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,425 £42,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,938 £55,246
90th Percentile £71,500 £70,000 £61,500
South Wales median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +26.32% +5.56% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Test 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 168 527 560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 90.32% 79.73% 96.89%
Number of salaries quoted 120 473 399
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,524 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,685 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -1.58% -1.90%
75th Percentile £67,217 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £52,592 £47,500 £45,228
% change year-on-year +10.72% +5.02% -8.17%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Cardiff

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Cardiff

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Cardiff over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Cardiff

Test 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) BGP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) OSPF
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) JMeter
2 2 (33.33%) Appium
2 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) JUnit
2 2 (33.33%) Katalon Studio
2 2 (33.33%) Maven
2 2 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) TestNG
3 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
3 1 (16.67%) Grunt
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (16.67%) webpack
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (16.67%) Django
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) Java EE
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) Redux
3 1 (16.67%) Sass
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) Symfony
3 1 (16.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) BDD
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) API Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) Pair Programming
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Lead Generation
4 1 (16.67%) Network Design
4 1 (16.67%) QA Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Server Management
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Groovy
3 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Iperf
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
1 1 (16.67%) VMware