QA Leader Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Quality Assurance Lead
England > Yorkshire

The median Quality Assurance Lead daily rate in Yorkshire is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025.

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

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 92 -
Rank change year-on-year -38 - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Leader 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.11% 0.074% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.082% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £518 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +15.00% -25.00% +28.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,641 1,220 1,794
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.04% 90.24% 95.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,106 705 1,176
10th Percentile £251 £227 £227
25th Percentile £375 £381 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £646 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 51 30
10th Percentile £17.48 £15.22 £15.14
25th Percentile £21.30 £18.32 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £21.41
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +12.96% +12.13%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £26.02
90th Percentile - £48.75 £44.05
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +53.19%

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

QA Leader job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

QA Leader
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for QA Leader job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for QA Leader job vacancies in Yorkshire

QA Leader
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 Leader within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
West Yorkshire - 2 £425 - 1
QA Leader
England

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 11 November 2025, QA Leader 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 Yorkshire region featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) ADO
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Compatibility Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Rainbow Teams
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering

QA Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Compatibility Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility