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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 42 27
Rank change year-on-year -20 -15 +11
Permanent jobs citing QA 23 97 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 1.74% 4.13% 8.48%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.36% 30.22% 47.85%
Number of salaries quoted 16 72 42
10th Percentile £36,500 £32,750 £26,391
25th Percentile £46,427 £40,000 £30,785
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £47,500
90th Percentile £71,375 £70,000 £59,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +4.35%

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 222 321 303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 16.79% 13.65% 17.72%
Number of salaries quoted 146 195 133
10th Percentile £43,125 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £57,938 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,500 £43,067
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -1.32% -10.28%
75th Percentile £70,600 £52,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £73,000 £62,200 £61,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

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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 10 June 2025.

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 10 June 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 +2 17 £55,000 +4.76% 45
West Wales +19 3 £50,124 +22.83%
North Wales -14 1 - - 5
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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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (8.70%) GitHub
3 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (8.70%) Serverless
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) BGP
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
1 2 (8.70%) OSPF
1 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
1 2 (8.70%) VLAN
2 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) JMeter
2 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.70%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (4.35%) Appium
4 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.35%) Git
4 1 (4.35%) JUnit
4 1 (4.35%) Maven
4 1 (4.35%) REST Assured
4 1 (4.35%) Selenium
4 1 (4.35%) TestNG
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Manufacturing
3 5 (21.74%) Retail
4 4 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
6 2 (8.70%) Finance
7 1 (4.35%) Electronics
7 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (4.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Senior
2 5 (21.74%) QA Manager
2 5 (21.74%) Senior Manager
2 5 (21.74%) Senior QA Manager
3 3 (13.04%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) Performance Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Performance Test Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Test Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) PMO Manager
4 2 (8.70%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) QA Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Quality Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Test Leader
5 1 (4.35%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Node.js
1 1 (4.35%) React
1 1 (4.35%) REST
1 1 (4.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Blog
2 1 (4.35%) FMCG
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) DevOps
2 7 (30.43%) Internal Audit
2 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (26.09%) Agile
3 6 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (26.09%) Performance Testing
4 5 (21.74%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
5 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
5 4 (17.39%) Test Scripting
6 3 (13.04%) Business Transformation
6 3 (13.04%) Performance Engineering
6 3 (13.04%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (13.04%) Risk Management
6 3 (13.04%) Scenario Testing
6 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
7 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
7 2 (8.70%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) Groovy
1 4 (17.39%) SQL
2 3 (13.04%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) Bash
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) CSQA
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) PMO
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) NCSC
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Grafana
2 2 (8.70%) Iperf
2 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) SolarWinds
1 2 (8.70%) VMware
2 1 (4.35%) Pega
2 1 (4.35%) SAP