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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 35 68
Rank change year-on-year -21 +33 -48
Permanent jobs citing QA 32 68 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 1.67% 3.81% 4.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.40% 30.09% 31.25%
Number of salaries quoted 22 54 40
10th Percentile £40,625 - £26,391
25th Percentile £46,486 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £58,750 £50,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £69,475 £61,165 £61,676
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.58% -13.33% +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 258 226 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 13.50% 12.65% 13.62%
Number of salaries quoted 159 142 110
10th Percentile £38,700 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £35,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +51.11% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £73,000 £50,000 £49,900
90th Percentile £80,000 £57,500 £61,463
UK median annual salary £62,000 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +12.73% -7.56% +8.18%

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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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +10 26 £53,500 +7.00% 25
West Wales +17 3 £50,124 -24.28% 1
North Wales -28 1 - - 4
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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 1 (3.13%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (3.13%) IIS
1 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Azure
2 7 (21.88%) AWS
3 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (9.38%) GitHub
4 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.25%) Serverless
6 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) BGP
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
1 2 (6.25%) OSPF
1 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
1 2 (6.25%) VLAN
2 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.13%) GIS
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Git
1 7 (21.88%) JMeter
2 4 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (9.38%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (6.25%) Appium
4 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.25%) JUnit
4 2 (6.25%) Maven
4 2 (6.25%) REST Assured
4 2 (6.25%) Selenium
4 2 (6.25%) TestNG
5 1 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Retail
3 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Manufacturing
4 5 (15.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (12.50%) Electronics
6 3 (9.38%) Aerospace
6 3 (9.38%) Automotive
6 3 (9.38%) Aviation
6 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
7 2 (6.25%) Finance
7 2 (6.25%) Legal
8 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Senior
2 5 (15.63%) QA Manager
2 5 (15.63%) Senior Manager
2 5 (15.63%) Senior QA Manager
3 4 (12.50%) Lead
4 3 (9.38%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Firmware Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Performance Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Performance Test Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) QA Automation Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) QA Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) PMO Manager
5 2 (6.25%) QA Leader
5 2 (6.25%) Quality Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) REST
1 2 (6.25%) SOAP
2 1 (3.13%) .NET
2 1 (3.13%) Node.js
2 1 (3.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) FPGA
2 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Blog
3 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.13%) FMCG
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Unix
3 1 (3.13%) Windows
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Agile
1 12 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 12 (37.50%) DevOps
1 12 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (31.25%) Test Automation
3 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
4 8 (25.00%) Internal Audit
5 7 (21.88%) Performance Testing
6 5 (15.63%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 4 (12.50%) Test Scripting
8 3 (9.38%) Business Transformation
8 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
8 3 (9.38%) Performance Engineering
8 3 (9.38%) QA Automation
8 3 (9.38%) Risk Management
8 3 (9.38%) Software Testing
8 3 (9.38%) System Testing
8 3 (9.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) Groovy
2 4 (12.50%) Python
2 4 (12.50%) SQL
3 3 (9.38%) C
3 3 (9.38%) C++
3 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.25%) Bash
4 2 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (3.13%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) CSQA
3 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) PMO
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) NCSC
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
1 3 (9.38%) Embedded Firmware
1 3 (9.38%) Firmware
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Grafana
2 3 (9.38%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) Iperf
3 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.13%) Ansible
4 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) VMware
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) Pega
2 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
3 1 (3.13%) Guidewire
3 1 (3.13%) SAP