QA Jobs in Swansea

Quality Assurance (QA)
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Swansea 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 26 24
Rank change year-on-year +16 -2 +14
Permanent jobs citing QA 5 3 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 9.80% 1.84% 7.66%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 100.00% 16.67% 62.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 18
10th Percentile - - £25,000
25th Percentile £46,486 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,124 £32,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +54.23% -27.78% +69.81%
75th Percentile £53,762 £37,279 £47,500
90th Percentile - £39,396 £50,000
West Wales median annual salary £50,124 £32,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +54.23% -27.78% +69.81%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5 18 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 9.80% 11.04% 12.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3 14 28
10th Percentile - - £33,980
25th Percentile £46,486 £31,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,124 £36,654 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.75% -18.55% +12.50%
75th Percentile £53,762 £52,374 £47,500
90th Percentile - £52,500 £50,000
West Wales median annual salary £50,124 £40,808 £45,000
% change year-on-year +22.83% -9.32% +12.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Swansea

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Salary Trend in Swansea

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

Salary trend for QA in Swansea

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swansea 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JMeter
2 2 (40.00%) Postman
2 2 (40.00%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Test Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Business Transformation
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (40.00%) API Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Test Management
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Groovy
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft