QA Automation Jobs in South Wales

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA Automation over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 105 107
Rank change year-on-year +40 +2 +17
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 2 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.23% 0.065% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.085% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £51,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £81,250 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £82,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +32.00% +11.61%
75th Percentile £62,500 £83,750 £69,375
90th Percentile - - £71,250
Wales median annual salary £60,000 £82,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +32.00% +11.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

QA 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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 722 1,178 1,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 82.42% 76.64% 96.23%
Number of salaries quoted 429 772 562
10th Percentile £23,504 £28,290 £26,412
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,700 £36,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,029 £46,699
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% +0.71% -6.60%
75th Percentile £66,000 £60,313 £64,125
90th Percentile £73,000 £72,314 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.96% - -5.59%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in South Wales

QA Automation
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Automation in South Wales.

Salary trend for QA Automation in South Wales

QA Automation
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 QA Automation within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 28 May 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 +34 1 - - 5
Bridgend - 1 £60,000 -
QA Automation
Wales

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) QA Leader
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Pega