QA Contracts in South Yorkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 44 52
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -18
Contract jobs citing QA 15 12 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.36% 2.33% 0.40%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.42% 14.81% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 2
10th Percentile £374 £398 £401
25th Percentile £388 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year +46.35% +3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £645 £575 £428
90th Percentile £646 £578 £434
Yorkshire median daily rate £540 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +2.86% +16.67% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.63 - -
Median hourly rate £12.75 - -
75th Percentile £12.88 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £10.86 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 59 81 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 13.23% 15.76% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 54 49
10th Percentile £314 £391 £171
25th Percentile £388 £450 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £595
90th Percentile £641 £693 £618
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £430
% change year-on-year -5.00% +16.28% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £13.90 £11.48
25th Percentile £12.63 £17.88 £14.75
Median hourly rate £12.75 £24.50 £22.29
Median % change year-on-year -47.96% +9.91% +84.75%
75th Percentile £12.88 £32.25 £24.00
90th Percentile - £36.90 £25.20
Yorkshire median hourly rate £10.93 £24.50 £22.29
% change year-on-year -55.39% +9.91% +18.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA in South Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in South Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Sheffield -2 11 £635 +49.41% 15
Barnsley - 1 £340 - 1
Rotherham - 1 - - 3
QA
Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 6 (40.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Apigee
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
1 6 (40.00%) GCP
1 6 (40.00%) GitHub
1 6 (40.00%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) DNS
2 6 (40.00%) Firewall
2 6 (40.00%) HTTP
2 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (40.00%) VPN
3 1 (6.67%) DHCP
3 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 6 (40.00%) CircleCI
1 6 (40.00%) Git
1 6 (40.00%) GitLab
1 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (40.00%) JIRA
1 6 (40.00%) Travis CI
General
1 12 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Automation Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) DevOps Automation Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Configuration Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Network Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (40.00%) JSON
1 6 (40.00%) XML
1 6 (40.00%) YAML
2 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (20.00%) CSS
2 3 (20.00%) HTML
2 3 (20.00%) LDAP
3 1 (6.67%) Series 60
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Data Structures
2 4 (26.67%) CMDB
3 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
1 1 (6.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (60.00%) Agile
2 9 (60.00%) DevOps
2 9 (60.00%) Scrum
3 7 (46.67%) Project Management
4 6 (40.00%) API Development
4 6 (40.00%) API Integration
4 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (40.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 6 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (40.00%) Secure Coding
4 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (40.00%) Task Automation
4 6 (40.00%) Use Case
4 6 (40.00%) Workflow
5 4 (26.67%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) Bash
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (6.67%) A+ Certification
4 1 (6.67%) CCNA
4 1 (6.67%) CCNP
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
4 1 (6.67%) PMP
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) KVM
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Ansible
1 6 (40.00%) Docker Swarm
1 6 (40.00%) Grafana
1 6 (40.00%) Kibana
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (40.00%) logstash
1 6 (40.00%) Progress Chef
1 6 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 6 (40.00%) Puppet
1 6 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Splunk
2 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) NEC
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco
4 1 (6.67%) VMware