QA Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 48 39
Rank change year-on-year -19 -9 +22
Contract jobs citing QA 20 6 12
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.77% 1.35% 3.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.52% 16.22% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 3 10
10th Percentile £278 £503 -
25th Percentile £296 £544 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £622 £475
Median % change year-on-year -42.44% +30.95% +11.76%
75th Percentile £513 £630 £525
90th Percentile £525 £634 £578
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £12.21 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £11.88 £21.50
% change year-on-year +30.47% -44.74% -57.00%

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 108 37 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 14.96% 8.30% 19.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 22 41
10th Percentile £273 £135 £225
25th Percentile £339 £235 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £568 £550
90th Percentile £609 £593 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £471 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.99% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate £12.21 - £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.33%
75th Percentile - - £22.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £11.88 £20.50
% change year-on-year +86.36% -42.05% +9.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

QA job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

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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 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in South Yorkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

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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 5 November 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 -13 18 £354 -43.22% 7
Doncaster +2 1 - - 1
QA
Yorkshire

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 5 (25.00%) Mule
2 2 (10.00%) Confluence
3 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) GCP
2 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) Azure
3 5 (25.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) npm
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (65.00%) JIRA
2 9 (45.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (20.00%) Git
4 4 (20.00%) Postman
5 2 (10.00%) Babel
5 2 (10.00%) GitLab
5 2 (10.00%) JUnit
5 2 (10.00%) Selenium
5 2 (10.00%) SoapUI
5 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
5 2 (10.00%) TestNG
5 2 (10.00%) webpack
6 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
General
1 12 (60.00%) Banking
2 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Service Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) QA Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Test Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Angular Developer
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Migration Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Node.js Developer
3 2 (10.00%) PMO Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.00%) IT Support
4 1 (5.00%) IT Support Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) PMO Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) React Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) CSS
1 4 (20.00%) CSS3
1 4 (20.00%) HTML
1 4 (20.00%) HTML5
1 4 (20.00%) REST
1 4 (20.00%) RESTful
2 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (10.00%) Bootstrap
2 2 (10.00%) DOM
2 2 (10.00%) Express.js
2 2 (10.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (10.00%) Jest
2 2 (10.00%) lodash
2 2 (10.00%) MEAN Stack
2 2 (10.00%) NestJS
2 2 (10.00%) Node.js
2 2 (10.00%) React
2 2 (10.00%) Redux
2 2 (10.00%) Sass
2 2 (10.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Onboarding
2 5 (25.00%) Distributed Applications
2 5 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (45.00%) DevOps
2 9 (45.00%) Microservices
3 7 (35.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 6 (30.00%) Sprint Planning
5 5 (25.00%) Availability Management
5 5 (25.00%) Change Management
5 5 (25.00%) Test Management
6 4 (20.00%) Agile
6 4 (20.00%) Functional Testing
6 4 (20.00%) ITIL
6 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (20.00%) User Experience
7 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (15.00%) Knowledge Management
7 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (15.00%) Test Strategy
7 3 (15.00%) Traceability Matrix
7 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (15.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (10.00%) Java
2 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
3 2 (10.00%) CISM
3 2 (10.00%) CISSP
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) BeyondTrust
2 2 (10.00%) CyberArk
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Thycotic
3 1 (5.00%) SAP