Test Automation Jobs in South Wales

Automated Testing
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation 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 53 52 27
Rank change year-on-year -1 -25 +21
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 55 58 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 3.25% 4.89% 7.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 5.08% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 46 32 80
10th Percentile £41,875 £37,650 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,750 £45,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £61,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% +22.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65,313 £68,497 £62,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £74,350
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -13.46% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

Test Automation 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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,259 1,141 1,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 74.41% 96.29% 93.16%
Number of salaries quoted 832 560 862
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,391 £31,569
25th Percentile £35,700 £35,427 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,029 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% -7.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,313 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +10.34%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in South Wales

Test Automation
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in South Wales

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in South Wales

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

Salary histogram for Test Automation in South Wales

Test Automation
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 Test Automation 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 +5 49 £47,500 -1.04% 1
Newport -6 2 £58,500 -14.59% 1
Gwent - 2 - - 1
Bridgend +2 1 - -
Glamorgan - 1 - - 1
Test Automation
Wales

Test Automation
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 (3.64%) Apache
1 2 (3.64%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.64%) CMS
1 2 (3.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 27 (49.09%) Azure
2 17 (30.91%) AWS
3 13 (23.64%) GCP
4 12 (21.82%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.45%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (5.45%) npm
6 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.82%) AWS CodeStar
6 1 (1.82%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.82%) OCI
6 1 (1.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (14.55%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (7.27%) MySQL
4 2 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (38.18%) Git
2 17 (30.91%) Selenium
3 14 (25.45%) Jenkins
4 7 (12.73%) JMeter
4 7 (12.73%) Postman
5 6 (10.91%) JIRA
5 6 (10.91%) SoapUI
5 6 (10.91%) Visual Studio
6 5 (9.09%) Cucumber
6 5 (9.09%) Cypress.io
7 3 (5.45%) GitLab
7 3 (5.45%) webpack
8 2 (3.64%) Grunt
9 1 (1.82%) Appium
9 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.82%) PHPUnit
9 1 (1.82%) Robot Framework
9 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.82%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.82%) Zephyr
General
1 24 (43.64%) Finance
2 18 (32.73%) Social Skills
3 11 (20.00%) Games
4 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Electronics
5 2 (3.64%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (34.55%) Developer
2 16 (29.09%) Senior
3 11 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 11 (20.00%) Lead
4 9 (16.36%) Test Engineer
5 8 (14.55%) Senior Developer
6 7 (12.73%) QA Leader
7 6 (10.91%) Full Stack Engineer
7 6 (10.91%) QA Engineer
7 6 (10.91%) Quality Engineer
7 6 (10.91%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Automation Test Lead
8 4 (7.27%) Full Stack Developer
8 4 (7.27%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Test Leader
8 4 (7.27%) Tester
9 3 (5.45%) JavaScript Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) QA Tester
9 3 (5.45%) Senior Full Stack Developer
9 3 (5.45%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (29.09%) REST
2 11 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 11 (20.00%) React
2 11 (20.00%) Spring
2 11 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (10.91%) Apache Camel
4 4 (7.27%) HTML
4 4 (7.27%) Vue
5 3 (5.45%) .NET
5 3 (5.45%) Sass
5 3 (5.45%) Symfony
6 2 (3.64%) Doctrine
6 2 (3.64%) Kafka
7 1 (1.82%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.82%) Laravel
7 1 (1.82%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (1.82%) Node.js
7 1 (1.82%) Playwright
7 1 (1.82%) RESTful
7 1 (1.82%) Vuex
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (10.91%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (10.91%) Low-Code
3 5 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.82%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (45.45%) Roadmaps
2 24 (43.64%) Fintech
2 24 (43.64%) Software Testing
3 20 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 19 (34.55%) Agile
4 19 (34.55%) Continuous Integration
5 18 (32.73%) Asset Management
6 17 (30.91%) Integration Testing
7 15 (27.27%) DevOps
8 14 (25.45%) SDLC
9 13 (23.64%) Containerisation
9 13 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (18.18%) Full Stack Development
11 8 (14.55%) Analytics
11 8 (14.55%) BDD
11 8 (14.55%) Coaching
11 8 (14.55%) ETL
11 8 (14.55%) Mentoring
11 8 (14.55%) Migration
12 7 (12.73%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 23 (41.82%) SQL
2 22 (40.00%) Java
3 17 (30.91%) JavaScript
4 11 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 6 (10.91%) C#
5 6 (10.91%) PL/SQL
5 6 (10.91%) Python
6 2 (3.64%) C
7 1 (1.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (7.27%) ISTQB
2 3 (5.45%) Degree
3 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.64%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (29.09%) QA
2 2 (3.64%) MISRA
2 2 (3.64%) MISRA C
System Software
1 23 (41.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.64%) Kibana
3 1 (1.82%) Ansible
3 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (36.36%) Oracle
2 6 (10.91%) MuleSoft
2 6 (10.91%) OutSystems
3 2 (3.64%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.82%) Black Duck
4 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow