Manual Testing Jobs in Wales

Manual Testing
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Manual Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Manual Testing over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 117 121
Rank change year-on-year +37 +4 +20
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 1 5 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.082% 0.23% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.30% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £40,275 £38,550
25th Percentile £57,500 £43,313 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +2.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £46,625
90th Percentile - - £47,450
UK median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% +11.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Manual 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 999 1,682 1,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 81.89% 76.42% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 557 1,114 800
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,975 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £32,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% - -5.59%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Manual Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Wales

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in Wales.

Salary trend for Manual Testing in Wales

Manual 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 Manual Testing within the Wales region over the 6 months to 31 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
South Wales +34 1 £60,000 +33.33% 3
Manual Testing
UK

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Katalon Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Pega