QA Contracts in West Yorkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 71 73
Rank change year-on-year +38 +2 -13
Contract jobs citing QA 43 39 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.30% 2.39% 2.61%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.33% 18.75% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 23 36
10th Percentile £314 £463 £352
25th Percentile £385 £495 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £592 £550 £501
90th Percentile £750 - £548
Yorkshire median daily rate £540 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +2.86% +16.67% +2.86%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Yorkshire

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 129 208 253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 12.90% 12.76% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 112 166
10th Percentile £245 £275 £204
25th Percentile £375 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £550
90th Percentile £688 £601 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £430
% change year-on-year -5.00% +16.28% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 10
10th Percentile - - £15.93
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £18.27 £13.16 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year +38.83% -29.63% -6.24%
75th Percentile - £15.44 £24.70
90th Percentile - £16.81 £26.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £10.93 £24.50 £22.29
% change year-on-year -55.39% +9.91% +18.00%

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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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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 +26 38 £550 +4.76% 34
Wakefield -2 3 £338 -28.95% 2
Castleford - 1 £275 - 1
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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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (9.30%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) SAP CO
1 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.60%) AWS
1 8 (18.60%) Azure
2 6 (13.95%) GitHub
3 4 (9.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (9.30%) Entra ID
3 4 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (6.98%) Apigee
5 2 (4.65%) SaaS
5 2 (4.65%) Slack
6 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) DHCP
1 3 (6.98%) DNS
1 3 (6.98%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (6.98%) SSL
1 3 (6.98%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.30%) MySQL
2 4 (9.30%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.98%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (2.33%) Power BI
4 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.95%) Selenium
3 4 (9.30%) AppScan
3 4 (9.30%) Burp Suite
3 4 (9.30%) GitLab
3 4 (9.30%) SonarQube
4 3 (6.98%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.98%) gulp
4 3 (6.98%) JMeter
4 3 (6.98%) Maven
4 3 (6.98%) Postman
4 3 (6.98%) XCUITest
5 2 (4.65%) Cypress.io
5 2 (4.65%) Git
5 2 (4.65%) JIRA
5 2 (4.65%) JUnit
5 2 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.33%) TestNG
General
1 21 (48.84%) Social Skills
2 11 (25.58%) Finance
3 8 (18.60%) Banking
4 3 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Analyst
2 5 (11.63%) Developer
3 4 (9.30%) Automation Developer
3 4 (9.30%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 4 (9.30%) Security Analyst
3 4 (9.30%) Site Engineer
3 4 (9.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Business Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Data Centre Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Data Centre Technician
4 3 (6.98%) Data Technician
4 3 (6.98%) Designer
4 3 (6.98%) IT Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) IT Technician
4 3 (6.98%) QA Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) QA Test Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Test Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Tester
5 2 (4.65%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.65%) QA Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (9.30%) Gherkin
1 4 (9.30%) OAuth
1 4 (9.30%) OpenID
1 4 (9.30%) RESTful
1 4 (9.30%) SailPoint
2 3 (6.98%) .NET
2 3 (6.98%) Node.js
2 3 (6.98%) SAML
3 1 (2.33%) Middleware
3 1 (2.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Mobile App
2 5 (11.63%) Algorithms
3 4 (9.30%) Public Cloud
3 4 (9.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (6.98%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.33%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.33%) IoT
6 1 (2.33%) NHS
6 1 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Android
1 5 (11.63%) Apple iOS
2 4 (9.30%) Linux
3 3 (6.98%) Windows
3 3 (6.98%) Windows 10
3 3 (6.98%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) Agile
1 17 (39.53%) Test Automation
2 12 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (25.58%) Project Management
4 10 (23.26%) CI/CD
5 8 (18.60%) Test Strategy
6 7 (16.28%) Analytics
6 7 (16.28%) Computer Science
6 7 (16.28%) Configuration Management
6 7 (16.28%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (16.28%) Identity Access Management
6 7 (16.28%) Scrum
7 6 (13.95%) Defect Tracking
7 6 (13.95%) DevOps
7 6 (13.95%) Test Planning
8 5 (11.63%) End-to-End Testing
8 5 (11.63%) Software Architecture
8 5 (11.63%) User Stories
9 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (9.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.58%) Java
2 8 (18.60%) Python
3 6 (13.95%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.30%) Bash
4 4 (9.30%) PowerShell
4 4 (9.30%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.33%) ABAP
5 1 (2.33%) C#
5 1 (2.33%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Degree
2 4 (9.30%) A+ Certification
2 4 (9.30%) CCNA
2 4 (9.30%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (9.30%) Network+ Certification
3 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.30%) Docker
2 4 (9.30%) Hyper-V
2 4 (9.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.98%) KVM
3 3 (6.98%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.98%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (6.98%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) Ansible
2 4 (9.30%) Grafana
2 4 (9.30%) Graylog
2 4 (9.30%) HP Fortify
2 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.30%) Nessus
2 4 (9.30%) Progress Chef
2 4 (9.30%) Prometheus
2 4 (9.30%) Puppet
2 4 (9.30%) Terraform
2 4 (9.30%) WebInspect
3 3 (6.98%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) Checkmarx
2 4 (9.30%) CyberArk
2 4 (9.30%) Splunk
2 4 (9.30%) Veracode
2 4 (9.30%) VMware
3 3 (6.98%) Google
4 2 (4.65%) SAP
5 1 (2.33%) Ariba
5 1 (2.33%) Cognizant