QA Leader Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Quality Assurance Lead
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Quality Assurance Lead daily rate in Leeds is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Leader 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.28% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £425 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Leeds with a recognized job title 672 601 955
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.73% 93.03% 96.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 372 654
10th Percentile £306 £313 £285
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £519
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.39% -1.24%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £613
90th Percentile £658 £647 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £511
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.09% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 31 9
10th Percentile £21.63 £18.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.80 £19.50 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +17.32% -0.88%
75th Percentile £27.06 £45.13 £22.25
90th Percentile £28.08 £48.75 £31.40
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.00 £27.50 £20.71
% change year-on-year -5.45% +32.82% -2.20%

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'QA Leader' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

QA Leader job vacancy trend in Leeds

QA Leader
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for QA Leader job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for QA Leader job vacancies in Leeds

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 11 November 2025, QA Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leeds region featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) ADO
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Compatibility Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Rainbow Teams
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering

QA Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Compatibility Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility