QA Contracts in Yorkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 66 76
Rank change year-on-year +25 +10 -12
Contract jobs citing QA 70 58 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.21% 2.60% 2.42%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.18% 21.01% 18.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 32 47
10th Percentile £318 £413 £213
25th Percentile £400 £463 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £617 £550 £500
90th Percentile £660 £575 £541
England median daily rate £525 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +3.96% +1.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £10.86 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £12.07 - -
England median hourly rate £15.38 £22.49 £48.00
% change year-on-year -31.60% -53.16% +152.63%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 Yorkshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 211 276 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.70% 12.35% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 157 235
10th Percentile £311 £273 £169
25th Percentile £388 £413 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £510 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +20.00% +1.19%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £535
90th Percentile £650 £638 £600
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 20
10th Percentile - £13.16 £15.93
25th Percentile £10.86 £16.58 £18.40
Median hourly rate £10.93 £30.25 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.87% +47.60% -1.94%
75th Percentile £14.22 £49.08 £25.38
90th Percentile £27.41 £50.22 £28.45
England median hourly rate £22.42 £40.00 £29.12
% change year-on-year -43.95% +37.36% +38.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 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
West Yorkshire +30 46 £550 +4.76% 40
South Yorkshire +8 18 £622 +46.35% 23
North Yorkshire - 2 £463 - 18
QA
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 11 (15.71%) Confluence
2 5 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.43%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.71%) AWS
2 17 (24.29%) Azure
3 15 (21.43%) GitHub
4 9 (12.86%) Apigee
4 9 (12.86%) GCP
4 9 (12.86%) Kong
5 4 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.71%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.86%) SaaS
6 2 (2.86%) Slack
7 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.43%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.43%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.14%) DNS
2 9 (12.86%) Firewall
2 9 (12.86%) HTTP
2 9 (12.86%) TCP/IP
2 9 (12.86%) VPN
3 6 (8.57%) SSL
4 3 (4.29%) BIG-IP
4 3 (4.29%) DHCP
4 3 (4.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (4.29%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (4.29%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (4.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.86%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (8.57%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.14%) MySQL
3 5 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.29%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.43%) DB2
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.43%) Power BI
5 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (25.71%) Jenkins
2 13 (18.57%) GitLab
3 11 (15.71%) Git
3 11 (15.71%) JIRA
4 9 (12.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (12.86%) CircleCI
4 9 (12.86%) Travis CI
5 6 (8.57%) JUnit
5 6 (8.57%) Selenium
6 4 (5.71%) AppScan
6 4 (5.71%) Burp Suite
6 4 (5.71%) SonarQube
7 3 (4.29%) Cucumber
7 3 (4.29%) gulp
7 3 (4.29%) JMeter
7 3 (4.29%) Maven
7 3 (4.29%) Postman
7 3 (4.29%) XCUITest
8 2 (2.86%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (24.29%) Finance
3 11 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.43%) Banking
5 3 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (15.71%) Analyst
2 9 (12.86%) Developer
3 7 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Test Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Automation Developer
6 4 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 4 (5.71%) Security Analyst
6 4 (5.71%) Site Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.29%) Data Centre Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Designer
7 3 (4.29%) IT Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.29%) QA Analyst
7 3 (4.29%) QA Test Analyst
7 3 (4.29%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.57%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (12.86%) JSON
2 9 (12.86%) XML
2 9 (12.86%) YAML
3 8 (11.43%) Gherkin
4 4 (5.71%) .NET
4 4 (5.71%) OAuth
4 4 (5.71%) OpenID
4 4 (5.71%) RESTful
4 4 (5.71%) SailPoint
5 3 (4.29%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.29%) CSS
5 3 (4.29%) HTML
5 3 (4.29%) LDAP
5 3 (4.29%) Node.js
5 3 (4.29%) SAML
6 1 (1.43%) Middleware
6 1 (1.43%) OLE
6 1 (1.43%) pytest
6 1 (1.43%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.86%) Data Structures
2 6 (8.57%) Mobile App
2 6 (8.57%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.71%) CMDB
4 4 (5.71%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (4.29%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.29%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.43%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.43%) IoT
6 1 (1.43%) iSeries
6 1 (1.43%) NHS
6 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.14%) Android
1 5 (7.14%) Apple iOS
2 4 (5.71%) Linux
3 3 (4.29%) Windows
3 3 (4.29%) Windows 10
3 3 (4.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (50.00%) Agile
2 24 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (34.29%) Test Automation
3 23 (32.86%) Scrum
4 20 (28.57%) Project Management
5 19 (27.14%) CI/CD
6 18 (25.71%) DevOps
7 16 (22.86%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (18.57%) Containerisation
8 13 (18.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (17.14%) Test Strategy
9 12 (17.14%) User Stories
10 11 (15.71%) Analytics
10 11 (15.71%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (15.71%) Kanban
11 10 (14.29%) Computer Science
11 10 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (14.29%) Use Case
12 9 (12.86%) API Integration
12 9 (12.86%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.57%) Python
2 16 (22.86%) Java
2 16 (22.86%) PowerShell
3 13 (18.57%) Bash
4 9 (12.86%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.71%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.29%) ActionScript
7 2 (2.86%) C#
7 2 (2.86%) SQL
8 1 (1.43%) ABAP
8 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 8 (11.43%) Degree
2 5 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (5.71%) A+ Certification
3 4 (5.71%) CCNA
3 4 (5.71%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.29%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (4.29%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.43%) CCNP
5 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.43%) GRC
2 1 (1.43%) HL7
System Software
1 13 (18.57%) Docker
2 7 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.71%) Hyper-V
3 4 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.29%) KVM
4 3 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (4.29%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.29%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 16 (22.86%) Ansible
2 13 (18.57%) Grafana
2 13 (18.57%) Kubernetes
2 13 (18.57%) Progress Chef
2 13 (18.57%) Prometheus
2 13 (18.57%) Puppet
2 13 (18.57%) Terraform
3 9 (12.86%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (12.86%) Kibana
3 9 (12.86%) logstash
4 4 (5.71%) Graylog
4 4 (5.71%) HP Fortify
4 4 (5.71%) Nessus
4 4 (5.71%) WebInspect
5 3 (4.29%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (4.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (18.57%) Microsoft
1 13 (18.57%) Splunk
2 4 (5.71%) Checkmarx
2 4 (5.71%) CyberArk
2 4 (5.71%) ServiceNow
2 4 (5.71%) Veracode
2 4 (5.71%) VMware
3 3 (4.29%) F5
3 3 (4.29%) Google
4 2 (2.86%) NEC
4 2 (2.86%) SAP
5 1 (1.43%) Ariba
5 1 (1.43%) Cisco
5 1 (1.43%) Cognizant