Locust Job Trends in South Wales

Locust
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Locust skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Locust 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.14% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.67% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,091 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 - -
75th Percentile £74,066 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median annual salary £70,079 - -

All Development Application Skills
South Wales

Locust falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 60 101 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 8.47% 11.28% 15.05%
Number of salaries quoted 53 71 68
10th Percentile £47,500 £23,750 £41,925
25th Percentile £51,750 £31,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £32,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -45.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,875 £69,800
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £32,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +69.23% -40.91% +4.27%

Locust
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Locust within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 24 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff - 1 £70,079 -
Locust
Wales

Locust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform