Senior QA Engineer Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Senior Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 70 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior QA Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.12% 0.12% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% - -
75th Percentile £538 £438 -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +23.53% -15.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 773 768 1,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.79% 92.87% 97.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 481 881
10th Percentile £285 £319 £310
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £573 £569 £619
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £483 £500 £517
% change year-on-year -3.50% -3.29% +3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 36 19
10th Percentile - £15.49 £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £19.50 £15.54
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.59 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +103.33% +29.42% -9.52%
75th Percentile £81.25 £39.69 £23.00
90th Percentile - £48.75 £27.44
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.79 £22.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +5.72% +5.58% +12.16%

Senior QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior QA Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Senior QA Engineer job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Senior QA Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior QA Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior QA Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Senior QA Engineer
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 Senior QA Engineer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 October 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 -7 1 £525 +23.53%
Senior QA Engineer
Yorkshire

Senior QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 3 October 2025, Senior QA Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Yorkshire region featuring Senior QA Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment

Senior QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk