QA Contracts in Leeds

Quality Assurance (QA)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 61 58
Rank change year-on-year +32 -3 -5
Contract jobs citing QA 38 34 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.82% 2.55% 3.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 43.68% 25.19% 25.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 19 37
10th Percentile £325 £473 £352
25th Percentile £417 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £599 £550 £505
90th Percentile £750 - £564
West Yorkshire median daily rate £524 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -0.29% +16.67% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 87 135 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 11.03% 10.14% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 92 130
10th Percentile £245 £313 £208
25th Percentile £406 £439 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £597 £575 £560
90th Percentile £694 £599 £651
West Yorkshire median daily rate £521 £500 £440
% change year-on-year +4.20% +13.64% -0.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £22.39
25th Percentile - - £24.07
Median hourly rate £18.27 - £25.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.02%
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.27 £13.16 £18.70
% change year-on-year +38.83% -29.63% -13.98%

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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 28 April 2024.

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) SAP CO
1 1 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) Azure
2 7 (18.42%) AWS
3 6 (15.79%) GitHub
4 4 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (10.53%) Entra ID
4 4 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (7.89%) Apigee
6 2 (5.26%) SaaS
6 2 (5.26%) Slack
7 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.63%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.53%) MySQL
2 4 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.89%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (2.63%) Power BI
4 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) Jenkins
2 6 (15.79%) Selenium
3 4 (10.53%) AppScan
3 4 (10.53%) Burp Suite
3 4 (10.53%) GitLab
3 4 (10.53%) SonarQube
4 3 (7.89%) Cucumber
4 3 (7.89%) gulp
4 3 (7.89%) JMeter
4 3 (7.89%) Maven
4 3 (7.89%) Postman
4 3 (7.89%) XCUITest
5 2 (5.26%) Cypress.io
5 2 (5.26%) Git
5 2 (5.26%) JIRA
5 2 (5.26%) JUnit
5 2 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.63%) TestNG
General
1 18 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Finance
3 5 (13.16%) Banking
4 3 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Analyst
2 5 (13.16%) Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Automation Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 4 (10.53%) Security Analyst
3 4 (10.53%) Site Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Designer
4 3 (7.89%) QA Analyst
4 3 (7.89%) QA Test Analyst
4 3 (7.89%) Test Analyst
4 3 (7.89%) Tester
5 2 (5.26%) Applications Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Lead
5 2 (5.26%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Supply Chain Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Test Leader
5 2 (5.26%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (10.53%) Gherkin
1 4 (10.53%) RESTful
1 4 (10.53%) SailPoint
2 3 (7.89%) .NET
2 3 (7.89%) Node.js
2 3 (7.89%) OAuth
2 3 (7.89%) OpenID
2 3 (7.89%) SAML
3 1 (2.63%) Middleware
3 1 (2.63%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Mobile App
2 5 (13.16%) Algorithms
3 4 (10.53%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.63%) IoT
4 1 (2.63%) NHS
4 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Android
1 5 (13.16%) Apple iOS
2 4 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) Test Automation
2 16 (42.11%) Agile
3 11 (28.95%) Project Management
4 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
5 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (21.05%) Test Strategy
7 7 (18.42%) Analytics
7 7 (18.42%) Configuration Management
7 7 (18.42%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (18.42%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (15.79%) Defect Tracking
8 6 (15.79%) DevOps
8 6 (15.79%) Scrum
8 6 (15.79%) Test Planning
9 5 (13.16%) End-to-End Testing
9 5 (13.16%) Software Architecture
10 4 (10.53%) Computer Science
10 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (10.53%) OWASP
10 4 (10.53%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (26.32%) Java
2 8 (21.05%) Python
3 5 (13.16%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.53%) Bash
4 4 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 4 (10.53%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.63%) ABAP
5 1 (2.63%) C#
5 1 (2.63%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) Degree
1 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.63%) A+ Certification
2 1 (2.63%) CCNA
2 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.63%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.63%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Ansible
2 4 (10.53%) Grafana
2 4 (10.53%) Graylog
2 4 (10.53%) HP Fortify
2 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.53%) Nessus
2 4 (10.53%) Progress Chef
2 4 (10.53%) Prometheus
2 4 (10.53%) Puppet
2 4 (10.53%) Terraform
2 4 (10.53%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) Checkmarx
2 4 (10.53%) CyberArk
2 4 (10.53%) Splunk
2 4 (10.53%) Veracode
3 3 (7.89%) Google
4 2 (5.26%) SAP
5 1 (2.63%) Ariba
5 1 (2.63%) Cognizant
5 1 (2.63%) VMware