QA Contract Job Trends in North Yorkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in North Yorkshire requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QA 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in North Yorkshire 4.07% - 2.03%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 35.71% - 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £353
25th Percentile £308 - £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 - £550
75th Percentile £323 - £588
90th Percentile - - £595
Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £425 £413
% change year-on-year +20.59% +3.03% -19.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.25 - -
Median hourly rate £15.50 - -
75th Percentile £15.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 - £10.86
% change year-on-year - - -78.28%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North Yorkshire

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 North Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 14 5 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 11.38% 7.35% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 9
10th Percentile £365 - £129
25th Percentile £450 - £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £582
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -5.50% +126.02%
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile £685 - £586
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +17.65% - -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.25 - -
Median hourly rate £15.50 - £11.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.84%
75th Percentile £23.81 - -
90th Percentile £28.64 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £22.14 £10.86
% change year-on-year -29.99% +103.87% -52.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

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

QA job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing QA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing QA

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Hourly Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing QA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing QA

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Contract Job Locations in North Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the North Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northallerton - 2 - -
York - 1 - - 2
Middlesbrough - 1 £315 -
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Yorkshire

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) TestRail
2 1 (20.00%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Legal
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Systems Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) HR Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) HR Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Manual Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (40.00%) Digital Forensics
2 2 (40.00%) Kanban
2 2 (40.00%) Open Source
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) BPMN
3 1 (20.00%) Business Case
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Order Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Workshops
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 2 (40.00%) ISO17020
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) MarketAxess
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Tradeweb
1 1 (20.00%) Workday