Software Testing Job Trends in Wales

Software Testing
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Software Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 45 72
Rank change year-on-year -51 +27 -2
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 34 22 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.24% 2.68% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 3.21% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 24 21 10
10th Percentile £32,000 £47,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £35,250 £60,000 £40,919
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.81% +35.00% +8.20%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £69,000 - £61,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% -1.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

Software 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 1,796 685 1,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.45% 83.43% 65.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,275 512 804
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -1.31%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Software Testing job vacancy trend in Wales

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Software Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Wales over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in Wales

Software 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 Software Testing within the Wales region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
West Wales - 21 £37,663 - 1
South Wales -55 7 £66,000 -2.22% 5
Mid Wales - 3 £65,000 -
North Wales - 3 £44,000 -
Software Testing
UK

Software 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) CANalyzer
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) AWS
1 7 (20.59%) Azure
1 7 (20.59%) Serverless
2 5 (14.71%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (11.76%) GCP
3 4 (11.76%) GitHub
3 4 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) JIRA
2 4 (11.76%) Cypress.io
2 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.76%) Postman
2 4 (11.76%) Selenium
3 3 (8.82%) Bugzilla
3 3 (8.82%) CANoe
3 3 (8.82%) Cucumber
3 3 (8.82%) Git
4 1 (2.94%) Burp Suite
4 1 (2.94%) Gatling
4 1 (2.94%) JMeter
4 1 (2.94%) Pa11y
4 1 (2.94%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.94%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Manufacturing
3 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (14.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Welsh Language
6 1 (2.94%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 19 (55.88%) Software Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Development Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Software Development Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Test Development Engineer
3 7 (20.59%) Senior
4 6 (17.65%) Developer
4 6 (17.65%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Embedded Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Manual Tester
5 3 (8.82%) Software Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Tester
6 2 (5.88%) Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Lead
7 1 (2.94%) Lead Electronics Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) Playwright
1 7 (20.59%) React
1 7 (20.59%) Spring Boot
2 6 (17.65%) Spring
3 5 (14.71%) Node.js
3 5 (14.71%) Ruby on Rails
4 4 (11.76%) NestJS
5 3 (8.82%) CSS
5 3 (8.82%) CSS3
5 3 (8.82%) HTML
5 3 (8.82%) HTML5
5 3 (8.82%) Jest
5 3 (8.82%) Next.js
5 3 (8.82%) OAuth
5 3 (8.82%) OAuth2
5 3 (8.82%) OpenID
5 3 (8.82%) RESTful
5 3 (8.82%) SAML
6 2 (5.88%) Gherkin
7 1 (2.94%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (32.35%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.76%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.88%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (2.94%) Analogue Electronics
4 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (82.35%) Test Automation
2 21 (61.76%) Software Engineering
3 14 (41.18%) Agile
3 14 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 12 (35.29%) Scrum
5 11 (32.35%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (26.47%) Mentoring
7 9 (26.47%) SDET
8 8 (23.53%) SDLC
8 8 (23.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 7 (20.59%) User Stories
9 7 (20.59%) Validation
10 6 (17.65%) BDD
10 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (17.65%) Sprint Planning
10 6 (17.65%) Sprint Retrospective
11 5 (14.71%) Acceptance Criteria
11 5 (14.71%) Clean Code
11 5 (14.71%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) TypeScript
2 7 (20.59%) Java
2 7 (20.59%) Ruby
3 6 (17.65%) C
3 6 (17.65%) C++
3 6 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.82%) Embedded C
4 3 (8.82%) Python
4 3 (8.82%) SQL
5 1 (2.94%) Natural
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) Degree
2 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
2 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (11.76%) ISTQB
4 3 (8.82%) HNC
4 3 (8.82%) HND
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.94%) CIPD
5 1 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) QA
2 8 (23.53%) Accessibility
3 4 (11.76%) WCAG
4 1 (2.94%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Terraform
2 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) OneLogin
2 3 (8.82%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.94%) EMC
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle