Test Strategy Jobs in South Wales

Test Strategy
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for Test Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Strategy over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 105 105
Rank change year-on-year +12 0 -36
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 7 3 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.49% 0.26% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.27% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 16
10th Percentile - - £31,475
25th Percentile £46,250 £57,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £42,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +40.35% -5.00%
75th Percentile £64,125 £62,500 £53,125
90th Percentile £75,200 - £76,250
Wales median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +38.89% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

Test Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,144 1,095 1,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 79.72% 95.88% 93.00%
Number of salaries quoted 739 580 868
10th Percentile £28,290 £28,655 £31,475
25th Percentile £35,913 £36,866 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,496 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% -9.01% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62,200 £63,188 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,433 £75,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +9.20%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in South Wales

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Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Test Strategy in South Wales

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Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in South Wales over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Strategy 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 Test Strategy within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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 5 £52,500 -12.50% 1
Newport +6 2 £58,500 -2.50%
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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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) BrowserStack
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) Appium
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) JMeter
2 1 (14.29%) PHPUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
2 1 (14.29%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Automation Test Lead
1 4 (57.14%) Lead
1 4 (57.14%) Test Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full Stack PHP Developer
2 1 (14.29%) PHP Developer
2 1 (14.29%) PHP Laravel Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) LAMP
2 1 (14.29%) Laravel
2 1 (14.29%) Playwright
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) Vue
2 1 (14.29%) Vuex
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Driving Licence
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Software Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) BDD
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (14.29%) Innovative Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Line Management
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) QA Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Sprint Review
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 4 (57.14%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker