Exploratory Testing Job Trends in Wales

Exploratory Testing
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 - 114
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.10% - 0.046%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - 0.064%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,221 - £57,500
75th Percentile - - £58,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £56,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +40.00% -11.11% -18.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

Exploratory 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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,287 469 1,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.51% 84.35% 71.05%
Number of salaries quoted 897 299 1,198
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,438 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £32,851 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,201 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Exploratory Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Exploratory Testing job vacancy trend in Wales

Exploratory Testing
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Exploratory Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Exploratory Testing

Exploratory Testing
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Testing within the Wales region over the 6 months to 20 June 2026. 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
South Wales - 2 £39,221 - 1
Exploratory Testing
UK

Exploratory Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) QA