QA Jobs in Wales

Quality Assurance (QA)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 41 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 -19 +62
Permanent jobs citing QA 74 105 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 3.84% 6.14% 8.73%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 29.02% 38.75% 42.43%
Number of salaries quoted 60 44 94
10th Percentile - £26,391 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +35.48%
75th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £62,653
90th Percentile £70,000 £63,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 255 271 403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 13.22% 15.85% 20.57%
Number of salaries quoted 157 127 231
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £33,284
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £38,258
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +31.25%
75th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £62,476 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +2.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Wales

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Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for QA in Wales

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Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Wales over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in Wales

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Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Wales region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
North Wales +1 29 £40,000 +23.08% 2
South Wales +4 28 £50,000 +16.10% 14
Mid Wales +4 14 £50,000 -
West Wales +2 3 £66,199 +47.11%
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UK

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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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.41%) Confluence
2 2 (2.70%) Apache
2 2 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (18.92%) Azure
2 5 (6.76%) AWS
3 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.70%) GitHub
4 1 (1.35%) BrowserStack
4 1 (1.35%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.70%) DSL
1 2 (2.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.05%) RDBMS
3 3 (4.05%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.70%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Git
2 5 (6.76%) Postman
2 5 (6.76%) Selenium
3 4 (5.41%) JIRA
3 4 (5.41%) JMeter
4 3 (4.05%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.70%) GitLab
5 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.70%) SoapUI
5 2 (2.70%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.35%) Appium
6 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.35%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.35%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.35%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (1.35%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (12.16%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.76%) Manufacturing
3 5 (6.76%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.70%) Advertising
6 1 (1.35%) Finance
6 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 33 (44.59%) QA Manager
1 33 (44.59%) Quality Manager
2 11 (14.86%) Lead
3 8 (10.81%) Developer
4 5 (6.76%) QA Officer
5 4 (5.41%) Automation Test Lead
5 4 (5.41%) QC Supervisor
5 4 (5.41%) Test Leader
6 3 (4.05%) Applications Developer
6 3 (4.05%) QA Leader
6 3 (4.05%) Test Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) .NET Applications Developer
7 2 (2.70%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (2.70%) C# Application Developer
7 2 (2.70%) Data Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) QA Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) QA Tester
7 2 (2.70%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (2.70%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.16%) .NET
2 8 (10.81%) AngularJS
2 8 (10.81%) React
3 6 (8.11%) REST
4 5 (6.76%) .NET Core
5 3 (4.05%) .NET Framework
5 3 (4.05%) ASP.NET
5 3 (4.05%) Blazor
5 3 (4.05%) CSS
5 3 (4.05%) CSS3
5 3 (4.05%) HTML
5 3 (4.05%) HTML5
5 3 (4.05%) RESTful
5 3 (4.05%) Vue
6 2 (2.70%) Gherkin
6 2 (2.70%) JSON
6 2 (2.70%) JSON Schema
6 2 (2.70%) Swagger
6 2 (2.70%) Web Services
7 1 (1.35%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.46%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.70%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.35%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.35%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.35%) Linux
1 1 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (17.57%) Agile
2 12 (16.22%) Test Automation
3 11 (14.86%) Software Testing
4 9 (12.16%) Mentoring
4 9 (12.16%) Software Engineering
5 7 (9.46%) CI/CD
5 7 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (9.46%) Test Strategy
6 6 (8.11%) Clean Code
7 5 (6.76%) Benchmarking
7 5 (6.76%) Domain-Driven Design
7 5 (6.76%) QMS
7 5 (6.76%) Quality Management
7 5 (6.76%) Scrum
7 5 (6.76%) SOLID
7 5 (6.76%) TDD
8 4 (5.41%) Analytics
8 4 (5.41%) Line Management
8 4 (5.41%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.27%) JavaScript
2 14 (18.92%) SQL
3 12 (16.22%) C#
4 5 (6.76%) Java
5 2 (2.70%) Python
6 1 (1.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (8.11%) SC Cleared
1 6 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.05%) Degree
3 2 (2.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) GMP
2 4 (5.41%) GLP
3 2 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (4.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (4.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.70%) Databricks
2 2 (2.70%) MuleSoft
2 2 (2.70%) Oracle
2 2 (2.70%) OutSystems