QA Contracts in South Wales

Quality Assurance (QA)
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 43 59
Rank change year-on-year +28 +16 -14
Contract jobs citing QA 24 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 7.36% 2.72% 1.75%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 35.82% 15.48% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 2 7
10th Percentile £333 £605 £363
25th Percentile £475 £613 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £625 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.92% +31.58% +46.15%
75th Percentile £551 £638 £538
90th Percentile £667 £645 £624
Wales median daily rate £533 £585 £463
% change year-on-year -8.93% +26.49% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £10.92 -
Wales median hourly rate £27.50 £10.92 -
% change year-on-year +151.83% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Wales

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 67 84 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 20.55% 17.57% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 49 59
10th Percentile £133 £258 £360
25th Percentile £291 £273 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year +0.85% -0.99% +17.78%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £588
90th Percentile £646 £603 £680
Wales median daily rate £509 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.05% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 9
10th Percentile £12.26 - -
25th Percentile £14.15 - £10.49
Median hourly rate £15.61 £10.92 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.93% -12.61% -37.38%
75th Percentile £16.98 £11.94 £47.40
90th Percentile £19.07 £48.88 -
Wales median hourly rate £18.14 £10.92 £12.75
% change year-on-year +66.12% -14.34% -36.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in South Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for QA in South Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in South Wales over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in South Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for QA in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff +28 21 £545 -12.80% 10
Newport +7 3 £325 - 5
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Wales

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 17 (70.83%) GitHub
2 9 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (29.17%) AWS
3 7 (29.17%) Azure
4 5 (20.83%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 3 (12.50%) WhatsApp
7 1 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Firewall
1 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 4 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (50.00%) MySQL
2 8 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (8.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (62.50%) Cypress.io
2 10 (41.67%) Postman
3 8 (33.33%) GitLab
4 6 (25.00%) Storybook
5 1 (4.17%) AppScan
5 1 (4.17%) Burp Suite
5 1 (4.17%) Git
5 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.17%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) PHP Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (20.83%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Administrator
4 4 (16.67%) DBA
5 3 (12.50%) Azure Administrator
5 3 (12.50%) Coordinator
5 3 (12.50%) MySQL DBA
5 3 (12.50%) Project Coordinator
6 2 (8.33%) QA Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Automation Tester
7 1 (4.17%) GUI Tester
7 1 (4.17%) QA Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) QA Test Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Site Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Test Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) Vue
2 10 (41.67%) Laravel
3 8 (33.33%) Playwright
4 6 (25.00%) React
5 4 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 16 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (20.83%) Public Cloud
3 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (20.83%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) Project Management
2 17 (70.83%) Test Automation
3 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 15 (62.50%) Agile
5 14 (58.33%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (33.33%) Analytics
7 7 (29.17%) Front End Development
7 7 (29.17%) Full Stack Development
8 6 (25.00%) Data Analytics
8 6 (25.00%) Objectives and Key Results
8 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 6 (25.00%) Unit Testing
9 5 (20.83%) Change Control
9 5 (20.83%) DevOps
10 4 (16.67%) Manual Testing
10 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (12.50%) Data Protection
11 3 (12.50%) Kanban
11 3 (12.50%) Project Planning
11 3 (12.50%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) PHP
1 7 (29.17%) TypeScript
2 1 (4.17%) Bash
2 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.17%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) SANS
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Ansible
1 5 (20.83%) Grafana
1 5 (20.83%) Nagios
1 5 (20.83%) Terraform
2 4 (16.67%) Graylog
2 4 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.17%) HP Fortify
3 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) Nessus
3 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.17%) Puppet
3 1 (4.17%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (4.17%) Checkmarx
3 1 (4.17%) Veracode