QA Automation Contracts in Yorkshire

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA Automation 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 86 99 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.59% 0.059% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.069% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £520 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £593 - -
England median daily rate £535 £525 £488
% change year-on-year +1.88% +7.69% +2.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

QA Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in Yorkshire

QA Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA Automation in Yorkshire

QA Automation
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation within the 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
South Yorkshire - 4 £520 -
West Yorkshire +16 2 £550 -
QA Automation
England

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
2 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 4 (66.67%) Git
2 4 (66.67%) Gradle
2 4 (66.67%) HP UFT
2 4 (66.67%) IntelliJ
2 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) JUnit
2 4 (66.67%) Maven
3 2 (33.33%) Postman
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) QA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) BDD
2 4 (66.67%) Case Management
2 4 (66.67%) Code Coverage
2 4 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Data Privacy
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Document Management
2 4 (66.67%) Due Diligence
2 4 (66.67%) Exploratory Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 4 (66.67%) Workflow
3 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA