Software Testing Jobs in South Wales

Software Testing
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing 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 54 78 98
Rank change year-on-year +24 +20 +10
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 13 28 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 1.48% 1.82% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 2.38% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 11 21 8
10th Percentile - £41,250 £33,689
25th Percentile - £45,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +20.69% +1.75%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £46,998
90th Percentile £65,000 - £56,219
Wales median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £46,210
% change year-on-year +26.32% +2.79% +8.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

Software Testing 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%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in South Wales

Software Testing
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Software Testing in South Wales

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in South Wales over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in South Wales

Software Testing
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 Software Testing 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
Newport - 10 £60,000 - 19
Glamorgan - 2 £68,500 - 4
Bridgend +53 1 £50,000 +5.26% 1
Software Testing
Wales

Software Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (7.69%) IIS
1 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.69%) GitHub
1 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Senior
2 8 (61.54%) Senior Software Test Engineer
2 8 (61.54%) Senior Test Engineer
2 8 (61.54%) Software Test Engineer
2 8 (61.54%) Test Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Software Team Leader
3 2 (15.38%) Team Leader
3 2 (15.38%) Test Leader
3 2 (15.38%) Test Team Leader
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Head of QA
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
1 1 (7.69%) Blog
1 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Test Automation
2 11 (84.62%) Computer Science
3 10 (76.92%) Configuration Management
4 9 (69.23%) Agile
5 8 (61.54%) UML
5 8 (61.54%) Validation
5 8 (61.54%) Verification and Validation
5 8 (61.54%) Waterfall
6 6 (46.15%) Code Quality
7 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
8 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Culture
8 2 (15.38%) Customer Requirements
8 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
8 2 (15.38%) Risk Register
8 2 (15.38%) Work Breakdown Structure
9 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
9 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
9 1 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
9 1 (7.69%) Software Delivery
9 1 (7.69%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Ada
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) C#
2 1 (7.69%) C++
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) Degree
2 9 (69.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (15.38%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) CSQA
5 1 (7.69%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (61.54%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Guidewire
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) Pega
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
1 1 (7.69%) VMware