QA Jobs in South Wales

Quality Assurance (QA)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 56 42
Rank change year-on-year +7 -14 -12
Permanent jobs citing QA 17 46 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 2.15% 3.14% 5.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.56% 25.41% 36.75%
Number of salaries quoted 12 33 23
10th Percentile £33,700 £30,500 -
25th Percentile £44,688 £41,250 £26,391
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £43,067
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +21.90% -13.87%
75th Percentile £71,563 £70,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £80,375 £77,500 £63,000
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £44,034
% change year-on-year +22.22% +2.19% -7.62%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Wales

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 147 181 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 18.63% 12.37% 14.63%
Number of salaries quoted 117 94 82
10th Percentile £44,350 £25,000 £26,391
25th Percentile £59,250 £28,290 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £43,750 £43,284
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +1.08% -13.43%
75th Percentile £70,600 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £65,225
Wales median annual salary £62,000 £40,250 £43,067
% change year-on-year +54.04% -6.54% -9.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in South Wales

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Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for QA in South Wales

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Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in South Wales over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in South Wales

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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 within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 15 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 +4 8 £65,000 +18.41% 44
Newport - 4 - - 7
Glamorgan - 2 £73,000 - 22
Neath Port Talbot - 2 £36,000 -
Rhondda Cynon Taff - 1 £40,000 -
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Wales

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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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) AutoCAD
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.88%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) BGP
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
1 1 (5.88%) OSPF
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.88%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.76%) JMeter
2 1 (5.88%) Appium
2 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) JUnit
2 1 (5.88%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (5.88%) Maven
2 1 (5.88%) REST Assured
2 1 (5.88%) Selenium
2 1 (5.88%) TestNG
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Manufacturing
2 4 (23.53%) Retail
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) QA Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Senior Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Senior QA Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Quality Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Data Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Governance Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) PMO Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Project Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Node.js
1 2 (11.76%) React
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Blog
1 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.88%) FMCG
1 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Internal Audit
1 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (23.53%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (23.53%) DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
5 2 (11.76%) Agile
5 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.76%) Pair Programming
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Testing
5 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
5 2 (11.76%) TDD
6 1 (5.88%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (5.88%) Budgeting
6 1 (5.88%) Code Quality
6 1 (5.88%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
1 2 (11.76%) Python
1 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
2 1 (5.88%) Groovy
2 1 (5.88%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) CSQA
2 1 (5.88%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) NCSC
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
1 1 (5.88%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Grafana
1 1 (5.88%) Iperf
1 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Databricks
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds
1 1 (5.88%) VMware