QA Contracts in South Yorkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 28 41 45
Rank change year-on-year +13 +4 +11
Contract jobs citing QA 21 15 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 5.63% 3.28% 2.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 32.81% 25.00% 15.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 9
10th Percentile £300 £374 £398
25th Percentile £483 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £622 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.44% +46.35% +3.03%
75th Percentile £547 £645 £575
90th Percentile £586 £646 £578
Yorkshire median daily rate £511 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -5.32% +2.86% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.75 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £10.86 -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South 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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 64 60 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 17.16% 13.13% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 44 52
10th Percentile £135 £315 £389
25th Percentile £368 £388 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.09% -16.67% +16.67%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £600
90th Percentile £614 £639 £698
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.33% -7.18% +18.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £14.13
25th Percentile - £12.63 £18.44
Median hourly rate - £12.75 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year - -50.49% +13.71%
75th Percentile - £12.88 £32.94
90th Percentile - - £37.18
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £10.93 £28.86
% change year-on-year +102.56% -62.13% +28.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA in South Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for QA in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in South Yorkshire

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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 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 +10 16 £520 -18.15% 12
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Yorkshire

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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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (19.05%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
1 5 (23.81%) GitHub
2 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.76%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Data Mining
2 1 (4.76%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (61.90%) JIRA
2 9 (42.86%) Git
2 9 (42.86%) Selenium
3 8 (38.10%) IntelliJ
3 8 (38.10%) Maven
4 5 (23.81%) Jenkins
5 4 (19.05%) Cucumber
5 4 (19.05%) Gradle
5 4 (19.05%) HP UFT
5 4 (19.05%) JUnit
5 4 (19.05%) Postman
5 4 (19.05%) TestRail
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Tester
2 4 (19.05%) Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) QA Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 3 (14.29%) QA Tester
3 3 (14.29%) Test Manager
4 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Desktop Support
4 2 (9.52%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) QA Manual Tester
4 2 (9.52%) Senior QA Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Kafka
1 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.76%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
1 1 (4.76%) NHS
1 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Apple iOS
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Test Automation
2 10 (47.62%) DevOps
3 6 (28.57%) Code Quality
3 6 (28.57%) Test Strategy
3 6 (28.57%) Workflow
4 5 (23.81%) Agile
4 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (23.81%) Migration
4 5 (23.81%) TDD
5 4 (19.05%) Analytics
5 4 (19.05%) API Testing
5 4 (19.05%) BDD
5 4 (19.05%) Case Management
5 4 (19.05%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (19.05%) Data Privacy
5 4 (19.05%) Due Diligence
5 4 (19.05%) Exploratory Testing
5 4 (19.05%) Non-Functional Testing
5 4 (19.05%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Java
2 3 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) Python
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) JCL
4 1 (4.76%) Kotlin
4 1 (4.76%) REXX
4 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.76%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
1 1 (4.76%) Control-M
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Apple
2 2 (9.52%) Citrix
3 1 (4.76%) Blue Coat
3 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.76%) IBM
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.76%) Zscaler