QA Contract Job Trends in Bradford

Quality Assurance (QA)
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bradford requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing QA 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bradford 2.34% 1.61% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.00% 10.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £436 £573 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £595 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.27% - -
75th Percentile £469 £618 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £475 £534
% change year-on-year -5.26% -11.01% +10.39%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bradford

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Bradford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 25 10 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford 19.53% 16.13% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 6
10th Percentile £398 £303 £283
25th Percentile £425 £306 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £325 £396
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -17.98% -0.94%
75th Percentile £464 £478 £564
90th Percentile £613 £562 £661
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.39 - -
Median hourly rate £16.44 £22.14 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% - -
75th Percentile £17.48 - -
90th Percentile £20.74 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.44 £22.14 -
% change year-on-year -25.77% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford.

QA job vacancy trend in Bradford

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Daily Rate Trend in Bradford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing QA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing QA

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bradford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing QA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing QA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Business Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Business Integration Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Business Systems Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Business Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Business Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Integration Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Transformation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Mapping
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Digital Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 3 (100.00%) Requirements Management
1 3 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
1 3 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments