Test Automation Jobs in South Wales

Automated Testing
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 54 55
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 -28
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 19 53 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 2.03% 3.38% 4.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 4.42% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 16 46 30
10th Percentile £48,125 £41,875 £37,450
25th Percentile £56,250 £42,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -17.39% +15.00%
75th Percentile £63,125 £65,313 £68,497
90th Percentile £67,625 £70,000 £87,500
Wales median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% +11.11% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

Test 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 743 1,199 1,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 79.30% 76.52% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 446 783 557
10th Percentile £23,504 £28,290 £26,391
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,700 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,029 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -0.99% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,750 £60,000 £64,250
90th Percentile £73,000 £72,433 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.96% - -5.59%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in South Wales

Test Automation
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in South Wales

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in South Wales over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in South Wales

Test 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 Test Automation within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 30 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 -9 10 £60,000 +2.56% 79
Cardiff -4 6 £53,750 +13.16% 75
Bridgend +57 2 £55,000 - 3
Glamorgan +1 1 £68,500 - 6
Test Automation
Wales

Test 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (5.26%) CMS
1 1 (5.26%) IIS
1 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) AWS
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) BGP
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) OSPF
1 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) MySQL
1 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Git
1 3 (15.79%) JMeter
1 3 (15.79%) Katalon Studio
2 2 (10.53%) Appium
2 2 (10.53%) Cucumber
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) JUnit
2 2 (10.53%) Maven
2 2 (10.53%) REST Assured
2 2 (10.53%) Selenium
2 2 (10.53%) TestNG
3 1 (5.26%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.26%) Grunt
3 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (5.26%) webpack
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Senior
2 8 (42.11%) Senior Software Test Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) Senior Test Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) Software Test Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) Test Engineer
3 6 (31.58%) Lead
4 3 (15.79%) Test Leader
5 2 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) QA Automation Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) QA Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Software Team Leader
5 2 (10.53%) Team Leader
5 2 (10.53%) Test Team Leader
6 1 (5.26%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Lead Software Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Web Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) REST
2 2 (10.53%) SOAP
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
3 1 (5.26%) Django
3 1 (5.26%) HTML
3 1 (5.26%) Java EE
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (5.26%) React
3 1 (5.26%) Redux
3 1 (5.26%) Sass
3 1 (5.26%) Spring
3 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.26%) Symfony
3 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Blog
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Agile
2 12 (63.16%) Software Testing
3 11 (57.89%) Computer Science
4 10 (52.63%) Configuration Management
5 8 (42.11%) UML
5 8 (42.11%) Validation
5 8 (42.11%) Verification and Validation
5 8 (42.11%) Waterfall
6 7 (36.84%) Code Quality
7 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
8 5 (26.32%) DevOps
8 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
9 3 (15.79%) BDD
9 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (15.79%) Performance Testing
10 2 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
10 2 (10.53%) Pair Programming
10 2 (10.53%) Regression Testing
10 2 (10.53%) Scrum
10 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
2 3 (15.79%) Java
2 3 (15.79%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) Ada
3 2 (10.53%) Groovy
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Degree
2 9 (47.37%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (10.53%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) CSQA
5 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (42.11%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 4 (21.05%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Iperf
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Pega
1 2 (10.53%) VMware
2 1 (5.26%) Guidewire
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds