QA Contracts in Leeds

Quality Assurance (QA)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 27 63
Rank change year-on-year -20 +36 -6
Contract jobs citing QA 13 39 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.80% 4.88% 2.56%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.63% 43.82% 25.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 31 19
10th Percentile - £325 £473
25th Percentile £263 £422 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £495 £590 £550
90th Percentile £569 £750 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -12.74% +0.95% +16.67%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 63 89 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 13.55% 11.14% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 61 91
10th Percentile £256 £250 £313
25th Percentile £300 £400 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £541 £588 £575
90th Percentile £729 £688 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £521 £500
% change year-on-year -13.63% +4.20% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 £18.27 -
Median % change year-on-year +80.41% - -
75th Percentile £34.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £18.27 £13.16
% change year-on-year +21.18% +38.83% -29.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) Selenium
2 6 (46.15%) Postman
3 5 (38.46%) Cypress.io
4 4 (30.77%) JIRA
4 4 (30.77%) SoapUI
5 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Tester
2 5 (38.46%) QA Tester
3 4 (30.77%) QA Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Manual Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) QA Manual Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Service Desk Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Service Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Software Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
1 1 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (7.69%) Nightwatchjs
1 1 (7.69%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) NHS
1 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Test Automation
2 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) Manual Testing
3 6 (46.15%) Test Strategy
4 5 (38.46%) API Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Agile Project Management
5 4 (30.77%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (30.77%) Non-Functional Testing
5 4 (30.77%) OWASP
5 4 (30.77%) Project Management
5 4 (30.77%) Security Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
6 3 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Analytics
7 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
7 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (15.38%) QA Automation
8 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.69%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) BMC
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce