QA Test Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Quality Assurance Test Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Quality Assurance Test Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Test Engineer 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 £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - -

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 677 610 959
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.89% 93.27% 96.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 375 652
10th Percentile £313 £320 £281
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% -
75th Percentile £575 £567 £616
90th Percentile £654 £646 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 30 9
10th Percentile £21.63 £17.89 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.80 £19.50 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.50 £24.59 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +15.39% -0.88%
75th Percentile £27.06 £46.25 £22.25
90th Percentile £28.08 £48.75 £31.40
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.00 £26.25 £20.71
% change year-on-year -0.95% +26.78% -2.38%

QA Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

QA Test Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

QA Test Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for QA Test Engineer job vacancies in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 5 November 2025, QA Test Engineer 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 Test Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing

QA Test Engineer 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Military
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk