QA Jobs in Wales

Quality Assurance (QA)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 20 39
Rank change year-on-year -28 +19 +24
Permanent jobs citing QA 79 160 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 3.83% 9.69% 5.93%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 28.01% 52.12% 29.19%
Number of salaries quoted 55 45 59
10th Percentile £30,500 £25,000 £35,300
25th Percentile £40,000 £26,391 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +20.00%
75th Percentile £62,200 £47,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £58,000 £63,000
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 is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 282 307 394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 13.68% 18.58% 20.31%
Number of salaries quoted 164 136 191
10th Percentile £25,108 £26,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,250 £43,067 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -9.33% +11.76%
75th Percentile £53,765 £50,375 £63,548
90th Percentile £66,750 £61,638 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%

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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 17 May 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 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales -19 46 £52,500 +21.90% 28
North Wales -18 20 £40,000 +23.08% 9
Mid Wales +2 10 £45,000 - 2
West Wales -8 3 £32,500 -27.78%
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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 2 (2.53%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.99%) Azure
2 8 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (7.59%) SaaS
4 3 (3.80%) Serverless
5 2 (2.53%) AWS
6 1 (1.27%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) DSL
1 2 (2.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.72%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (7.59%) MySQL
3 4 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.80%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.80%) RDBMS
4 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.27%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.27%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (11.39%) Postman
2 8 (10.13%) Git
2 8 (10.13%) JMeter
3 7 (8.86%) Selenium
4 6 (7.59%) SoapUI
4 6 (7.59%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.80%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.80%) JDeveloper
6 2 (2.53%) JIRA
7 1 (1.27%) Appium
7 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.27%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.27%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (1.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 13 (16.46%) Finance
2 10 (12.66%) Manufacturing
3 8 (10.13%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.59%) Banking
5 5 (6.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (5.06%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.53%) Marketing
8 2 (2.53%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.27%) Local Government
9 1 (1.27%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 19 (24.05%) Lead
2 15 (18.99%) Developer
3 12 (15.19%) QA Manager
3 12 (15.19%) Quality Manager
4 11 (13.92%) QA Engineer
4 11 (13.92%) Quality Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) Lead Developer
5 6 (7.59%) QA Leader
6 4 (5.06%) Automation Test Lead
6 4 (5.06%) Business Analyst
6 4 (5.06%) QC Supervisor
6 4 (5.06%) Software Developer
6 4 (5.06%) Test Leader
7 3 (3.80%) Junior
7 3 (3.80%) QA Tester
7 3 (3.80%) Ruby Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Tester
7 3 (3.80%) User Researcher
8 2 (2.53%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.46%) .NET
2 11 (13.92%) .NET Core
3 8 (10.13%) React
4 7 (8.86%) CSS
4 7 (8.86%) HTML
5 6 (7.59%) ASP.NET
5 6 (7.59%) JSON
5 6 (7.59%) REST
6 5 (6.33%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.06%) Laravel
8 3 (3.80%) Node.js
9 2 (2.53%) Gherkin
9 2 (2.53%) JSON Schema
9 2 (2.53%) RESTful
9 2 (2.53%) Swagger
9 2 (2.53%) Web Services
10 1 (1.27%) Lightning Web Components
10 1 (1.27%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.92%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (10.13%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.59%) Low-Code
4 4 (5.06%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.27%) Blog
6 1 (1.27%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.27%) FMCG
6 1 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.27%) Linux
1 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (22.78%) Agile
2 17 (21.52%) Test Automation
3 16 (20.25%) Mentoring
4 15 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (18.99%) Software Testing
5 14 (17.72%) CI/CD
6 12 (15.19%) DevOps
7 9 (11.39%) Microservices
7 9 (11.39%) Software Engineering
8 8 (10.13%) Clean Code
8 8 (10.13%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (8.86%) Change Management
9 7 (8.86%) Fintech
9 7 (8.86%) Roadmaps
9 7 (8.86%) Translating Business Requirements
10 6 (7.59%) Analytics
10 6 (7.59%) ETL
10 6 (7.59%) Migration
10 6 (7.59%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (7.59%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (27.85%) JavaScript
2 17 (21.52%) C#
3 13 (16.46%) SQL
4 10 (12.66%) Java
5 4 (5.06%) PHP
6 3 (3.80%) Bash
6 3 (3.80%) Go
6 3 (3.80%) Perl
6 3 (3.80%) Python
6 3 (3.80%) Ruby
7 1 (1.27%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (5.06%) Degree
2 3 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (3.80%) SC Cleared
2 3 (3.80%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.33%) GMP
2 4 (5.06%) GLP
3 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (5.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (15.19%) Oracle
2 6 (7.59%) MuleSoft
2 6 (7.59%) OutSystems
3 1 (1.27%) Salesforce