QA Jobs in South Wales

Quality Assurance (QA)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 59 26
Rank change year-on-year +1 -33 +32
Permanent jobs citing QA 50 51 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 2.96% 4.30% 8.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.51% 30.54% 35.00%
Number of salaries quoted 39 21 59
10th Percentile £32,000 - £37,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £26,391 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £43,067 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.90% -17.97% +31.25%
75th Percentile £70,000 £47,500 £58,125
90th Percentile £77,500 £63,750 £73,000
Wales median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +31.25%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South 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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 204 167 360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 12.06% 14.09% 23.00%
Number of salaries quoted 114 74 166
10th Percentile £25,014 £26,391 £34,000
25th Percentile £30,086 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £43,067 £50,750
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -15.14% +35.33%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £69,375
90th Percentile £70,000 £69,625 £80,000
Wales median annual salary £42,500 £43,048 £48,500
% change year-on-year -1.27% -11.24% +21.25%

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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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Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for QA in South Wales

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Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in South Wales over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in South Wales

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Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Cardiff +26 36 £52,500 - 13
Glamorgan -2 8 £50,000 - 7
Gwent -6 6 £24,000 - 2
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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.00%) Azure
2 6 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.00%) SaaS
4 1 (2.00%) AWS
4 1 (2.00%) BrowserStack
4 1 (2.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) DSL
1 2 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (8.00%) MySQL
3 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.00%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.00%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (18.00%) Postman
2 7 (14.00%) JMeter
3 6 (12.00%) Git
3 6 (12.00%) SoapUI
3 6 (12.00%) Visual Studio
4 5 (10.00%) Selenium
5 4 (8.00%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.00%) JIRA
7 1 (2.00%) Appium
7 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.00%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.00%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (2.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 12 (24.00%) Finance
2 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.00%) Banking
4 5 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 4 (8.00%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Local Government
7 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 19 (38.00%) Lead
2 11 (22.00%) QA Engineer
2 11 (22.00%) Quality Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) Developer
4 7 (14.00%) QA Leader
4 7 (14.00%) QA Manager
4 7 (14.00%) Quality Manager
5 6 (12.00%) Lead Developer
6 4 (8.00%) Automation Test Lead
6 4 (8.00%) Business Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Software Developer
6 4 (8.00%) Test Leader
7 3 (6.00%) QA Tester
7 3 (6.00%) Tester
8 2 (4.00%) Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) Technical Business Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) User Researcher
9 1 (2.00%) Digital Project Manager
9 1 (2.00%) ICT Officer
9 1 (2.00%) QA Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) .NET
2 7 (14.00%) CSS
2 7 (14.00%) HTML
3 6 (12.00%) .NET Core
3 6 (12.00%) ASP.NET
3 6 (12.00%) JSON
3 6 (12.00%) REST
4 4 (8.00%) Laravel
5 2 (4.00%) Gherkin
5 2 (4.00%) JSON Schema
5 2 (4.00%) RESTful
5 2 (4.00%) Swagger
5 2 (4.00%) Web Services
6 1 (2.00%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (2.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (12.00%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (12.00%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.00%) FMCG
4 1 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.00%) Mentoring
1 16 (32.00%) Test Automation
2 15 (30.00%) Agile
2 15 (30.00%) Software Testing
3 14 (28.00%) CI/CD
4 10 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (16.00%) Fintech
5 8 (16.00%) Roadmaps
6 7 (14.00%) Change Management
6 7 (14.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 6 (12.00%) Analytics
7 6 (12.00%) Code Optimisation
7 6 (12.00%) Defect Management
7 6 (12.00%) DevOps
7 6 (12.00%) ETL
7 6 (12.00%) Microservices
7 6 (12.00%) Migration
7 6 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (12.00%) Software Architecture
7 6 (12.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 10 (20.00%) C#
3 7 (14.00%) SQL
4 5 (10.00%) Java
5 4 (8.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) Oracle
2 6 (12.00%) MuleSoft
2 6 (12.00%) OutSystems
3 1 (2.00%) Salesforce