QA Contracts in Sheffield

Quality Assurance (QA)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 48 39
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 -
Contract jobs citing QA 17 14 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 3.99% 3.26% 2.87%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.37% 36.84% 19.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 10
10th Percentile £226 £618 £399
25th Percentile £475 £622 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.84% +19.05% -
75th Percentile £531 £645 £575
90th Percentile £545 £647 £578
South Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -16.82% +19.05% +23.53%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 67 38 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 15.73% 8.84% 14.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 25 35
10th Percentile £214 £220 £365
25th Percentile £311 £378 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £544 £622 £622
90th Percentile £611 £642 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £496 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +4.47% -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.14%
75th Percentile - - £22.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £12.75 £20.50
% change year-on-year - -37.80% +3.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Sheffield over the 6 months to 29 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (23.53%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
1 5 (29.41%) GitHub
2 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.88%) CloudBees
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Data Mining
2 1 (5.88%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) JIRA
2 5 (29.41%) Git
2 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
3 4 (23.53%) Cucumber
3 4 (23.53%) Gradle
3 4 (23.53%) HP UFT
3 4 (23.53%) IntelliJ
3 4 (23.53%) JUnit
3 4 (23.53%) Maven
3 4 (23.53%) Selenium
3 4 (23.53%) TestRail
General
1 5 (29.41%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Test Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) QA Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Data Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Desktop Support
3 2 (11.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Migration Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Senior QA Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Kafka
1 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.88%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
1 1 (5.88%) NHS
1 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
1 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) DevOps
2 8 (47.06%) Test Strategy
3 7 (41.18%) Migration
4 6 (35.29%) Code Quality
4 6 (35.29%) Test Automation
4 6 (35.29%) Workflow
5 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (29.41%) TDD
6 4 (23.53%) Analytics
6 4 (23.53%) BDD
6 4 (23.53%) Case Management
6 4 (23.53%) Code Coverage
6 4 (23.53%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (23.53%) Data Privacy
6 4 (23.53%) Document Management
6 4 (23.53%) Exploratory Testing
6 4 (23.53%) Non-Functional Testing
6 4 (23.53%) QA Automation
6 4 (23.53%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Java
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) JCL
4 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.88%) REXX
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Control-M
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Apple
1 2 (11.76%) Citrix
2 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.88%) IBM
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle