Test Automation Jobs in Cardiff

Automated Testing
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 32 27
Rank change year-on-year +12 -5 +21
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 48 35 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 7.31% 6.13% 9.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.18% 6.31% 9.83%
Number of salaries quoted 43 15 68
10th Percentile £41,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £39,000 £39,210
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £63,125 £55,246 £62,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £61,500 £74,300
South Wales median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +24.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 523 555 814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 79.60% 97.20% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 470 393 616
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £34,250
25th Percentile £39,250 £40,000 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,842 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% -2.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,875
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £47,500 £45,496 £49,000
% change year-on-year +4.41% -7.15% +8.89%

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 27 April 2024.

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 2 (4.17%) Apache
1 2 (4.17%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.17%) CMS
1 2 (4.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 24 (50.00%) Azure
2 14 (29.17%) AWS
3 12 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (22.92%) GCP
5 3 (6.25%) npm
6 2 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.08%) BrowserStack
7 1 (2.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (2.08%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.92%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.25%) MySQL
4 2 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (41.67%) Git
2 16 (33.33%) Selenium
3 13 (27.08%) Jenkins
4 7 (14.58%) JMeter
4 7 (14.58%) Postman
5 6 (12.50%) SoapUI
5 6 (12.50%) Visual Studio
6 5 (10.42%) Cypress.io
6 5 (10.42%) JIRA
7 3 (6.25%) Cucumber
7 3 (6.25%) GitLab
7 3 (6.25%) webpack
8 2 (4.17%) Grunt
9 1 (2.08%) Appium
9 1 (2.08%) REST Assured
9 1 (2.08%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (2.08%) SpecFlow
General
1 22 (45.83%) Finance
2 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 11 (22.92%) Games
4 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Developer
2 13 (27.08%) Senior
3 11 (22.92%) Java Developer
4 10 (20.83%) Lead
5 8 (16.67%) Test Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) Full Stack Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) QA Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) QA Leader
6 6 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 6 (12.50%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Automation Test Lead
7 4 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Test Leader
8 3 (6.25%) Full Stack Developer
8 3 (6.25%) JavaScript Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) QA Tester
8 3 (6.25%) Senior Full Stack Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (31.25%) REST
2 11 (22.92%) AngularJS
2 11 (22.92%) React
2 11 (22.92%) Spring
2 11 (22.92%) Spring Boot
3 6 (12.50%) Apache Camel
4 3 (6.25%) .NET
4 3 (6.25%) HTML
4 3 (6.25%) Sass
4 3 (6.25%) Symfony
4 3 (6.25%) Vue
5 2 (4.17%) Doctrine
5 2 (4.17%) Kafka
6 1 (2.08%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (2.08%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (12.50%) Low-Code
3 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 23 (47.92%) Fintech
3 21 (43.75%) Software Testing
4 19 (39.58%) CI/CD
5 17 (35.42%) Agile
5 17 (35.42%) Asset Management
5 17 (35.42%) Continuous Integration
5 17 (35.42%) Integration Testing
6 14 (29.17%) DevOps
7 13 (27.08%) Containerisation
7 13 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (27.08%) SDLC
8 9 (18.75%) Full Stack Development
9 8 (16.67%) Analytics
9 8 (16.67%) BDD
9 8 (16.67%) ETL
9 8 (16.67%) Migration
10 7 (14.58%) Coaching
11 6 (12.50%) Defect Management
11 6 (12.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (47.92%) SQL
2 21 (43.75%) Java
3 14 (29.17%) JavaScript
4 11 (22.92%) TypeScript
5 6 (12.50%) C#
5 6 (12.50%) PL/SQL
6 4 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (31.25%) QA
System Software
1 21 (43.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Kibana
1 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (41.67%) Oracle
2 6 (12.50%) MuleSoft
2 6 (12.50%) OutSystems
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.08%) Salesforce