QA Contracts in West Yorkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 47 34 69
Rank change year-on-year -13 +35 -2
Contract jobs citing QA 15 44 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.74% 4.40% 2.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.99% 34.38% 18.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 35 22
10th Percentile £263 £315 £463
25th Percentile £275 £390 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.74% +0.95% +16.67%
75th Percentile £561 £585 £550
90th Percentile £575 £750 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £511 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -5.32% +2.86% +16.67%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 79 128 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 14.42% 12.81% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 70 112
10th Percentile £263 £248 £275
25th Percentile £303 £349 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £521 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.63% +4.20% +13.64%
75th Percentile £547 £588 £575
90th Percentile £718 £654 £623
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.33% -7.18% +18.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £22.14 £18.27 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year +21.18% +38.83% -29.63%
75th Percentile £25.14 - £15.44
90th Percentile £34.24 - £16.81
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 West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for QA in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West 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 West 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
Leeds -20 13 £400 -27.27% 22
Bradford - 1 £595 - 5
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Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
1 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) GIS
Development Applications
1 11 (73.33%) Selenium
2 7 (46.67%) Postman
3 5 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 5 (33.33%) JIRA
4 4 (26.67%) SoapUI
5 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (6.67%) Git
5 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
5 1 (6.67%) Maven
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Tester
2 5 (33.33%) QA Tester
3 4 (26.67%) QA Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Automation Tester
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.67%) QA Manual Tester
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Service Desk Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Gherkin
1 1 (6.67%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (6.67%) Nightwatchjs
1 1 (6.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) NHS
1 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) DevOps
3 6 (40.00%) API Testing
3 6 (40.00%) Manual Testing
3 6 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 5 (33.33%) Project Management
5 4 (26.67%) Agile Project Management
5 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (26.67%) Non-Functional Testing
5 4 (26.67%) OWASP
5 4 (26.67%) Security Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Test Scripting
6 3 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (13.33%) Analytics
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
7 2 (13.33%) QA Automation
8 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) Python
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.67%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) BMC
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
1 1 (6.67%) SAP