QA Analyst Contracts in South Yorkshire

Quality Assurance Analyst
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Quality Assurance Analyst daily rate in South Yorkshire is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Analyst 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.07% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £517 -
% change year-on-year -0.87% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 339 416 484
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 91.03% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 261 343
10th Percentile £185 £235 £263
25th Percentile £375 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £556 £580 £658
90th Percentile £638 £638 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 5
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.10
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.63 £11.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £13.60 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +34.99% -23.28% +0.45%
75th Percentile £18.50 £23.31 £22.50
90th Percentile £18.51 £23.75 £33.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%

QA Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings that featured QA Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for QA Analyst in South Yorkshire

QA Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Analyst in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for QA Analyst in South Yorkshire

QA Analyst
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Analyst within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Sheffield - 4 £513 - 2
QA Analyst
Yorkshire

QA Analyst Skill Set
Top 14 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, QA Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Yorkshire region featuring QA Analyst in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) QA
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) TestRail
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Data Mining
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing

QA Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) TestRail
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA