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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 49 54
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -25
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 22 51 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 2.61% 3.46% 4.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 4.43% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 19 46 28
10th Percentile £46,702 £41,875 £37,000
25th Percentile £48,125 £42,750 £38,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £51,496
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -7.76% +2.99%
75th Percentile - £65,313 £68,497
90th Percentile £66,050 £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 699 1,150 1,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 82.82% 78.07% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 445 746 558
10th Percentile £23,504 £28,290 £27,405
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,700 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,221 £47,500 £45,498
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +4.40% -9.00%
75th Percentile £66,750 £61,250 £62,988
90th Percentile £73,000 £72,500 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £48,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.78% - -5.26%

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 17 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 17 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 -4 12 £60,000 +2.56% 3
Cardiff -7 6 £53,750 +13.16% 28
Gwent - 2 £50,796 - 2
Bridgend - 1 £50,000 - 3
Glamorgan - 1 £68,500 - 19
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 (4.55%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (4.55%) CMS
1 1 (4.55%) IIS
1 1 (4.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) AWS
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) BGP
1 1 (4.55%) DNS
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) OSPF
1 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) MySQL
1 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) Cucumber
2 3 (13.64%) JMeter
2 3 (13.64%) REST Assured
2 3 (13.64%) Selenium
3 2 (9.09%) Appium
3 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.09%) JUnit
3 2 (9.09%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (9.09%) Maven
3 2 (9.09%) TestNG
4 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.55%) Grunt
4 1 (4.55%) NUnit
4 1 (4.55%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.55%) SpecFlow
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.55%) webpack
General
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
1 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.55%) Marketing
2 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Senior
2 8 (36.36%) Senior Software Test Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Senior Test Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Software Test Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Test Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Lead
4 3 (13.64%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (13.64%) Test Leader
5 2 (9.09%) Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Software Team Leader
5 2 (9.09%) Team Leader
5 2 (9.09%) Test Team Leader
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.55%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Tester
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Web Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Tester
6 1 (4.55%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) REST
2 2 (9.09%) SOAP
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) Django
3 1 (4.55%) HTML
3 1 (4.55%) Java EE
3 1 (4.55%) Node.js
3 1 (4.55%) React
3 1 (4.55%) Redux
3 1 (4.55%) Sass
3 1 (4.55%) Spring
3 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.55%) Symfony
3 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Blog
2 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
1 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Agile
2 12 (54.55%) Software Testing
3 11 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 10 (45.45%) Configuration Management
5 8 (36.36%) DevOps
5 8 (36.36%) UML
5 8 (36.36%) Validation
5 8 (36.36%) Verification and Validation
5 8 (36.36%) Waterfall
6 7 (31.82%) Code Quality
7 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
8 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
8 5 (22.73%) Scrum
9 4 (18.18%) BDD
9 4 (18.18%) Performance Testing
10 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
10 3 (13.64%) Kanban
10 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 2 (9.09%) Risk Register
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
2 4 (18.18%) Java
3 3 (13.64%) Python
4 2 (9.09%) Ada
4 2 (9.09%) Groovy
4 2 (9.09%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) Degree
2 9 (40.91%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (9.09%) Chartered Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.55%) CSQA
5 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
5 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 3 (13.64%) QA
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Iperf
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (4.55%) Guidewire
3 1 (4.55%) Pega
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds