QA Tester Contracts in Yorkshire

Quality Assurance Tester
England > Yorkshire

The median Quality Assurance Tester daily rate in Yorkshire is £281, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 99 125
Rank change year-on-year +16 +26 -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Tester 9 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.88% 0.059% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.065% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 £313 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £281 £325 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -35.00% -
75th Percentile £391 £338 £525
90th Percentile £517 - -
England median daily rate £380 £459 £575
% change year-on-year -17.17% -20.22% +53.33%

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 959 1,546 2,201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 91.53% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 962 1,502
10th Percentile £224 £233 £260
25th Percentile £358 £378 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £629 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 65 27
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.23 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%
75th Percentile £22.14 £23.75 £54.07
90th Percentile £80.10 £51.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings that featured QA Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for QA Tester in Yorkshire

QA Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA Tester in Yorkshire

QA Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for QA Tester in Yorkshire

QA Tester
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 Tester 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
West Yorkshire +19 5 £275 -15.38%
South Yorkshire - 3 £515 -
East Yorkshire - 1 £288 - 1
QA Tester
England

QA Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, QA Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring QA Tester in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (77.78%) Selenium
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) Manual Testing
2 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
3 6 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 6 (66.67%) JIRA
3 6 (66.67%) API Testing
4 5 (55.56%) Postman
4 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
4 5 (55.56%) Accessibility
4 5 (55.56%) Project Management
4 5 (55.56%) Cypress.io
5 4 (44.44%) Azure
5 4 (44.44%) AWS
5 4 (44.44%) Agile Project Management
5 4 (44.44%) Non-Functional Testing
5 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
5 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
5 4 (44.44%) OWASP
5 4 (44.44%) Security Testing
5 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
5 4 (44.44%) SoapUI
5 4 (44.44%) DevOps
5 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (44.44%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (22.22%) User Experience
6 2 (22.22%) Finance
6 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
6 2 (22.22%) Java

QA Tester Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Bloomreach
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Selenium
2 6 (66.67%) JIRA
3 5 (55.56%) Cypress.io
3 5 (55.56%) Postman
4 4 (44.44%) SoapUI
5 1 (11.11%) Git
5 1 (11.11%) IntelliJ
5 1 (11.11%) Maven
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
1 7 (77.78%) Manual Testing
1 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 6 (66.67%) API Testing
2 6 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 5 (55.56%) Project Management
4 4 (44.44%) Agile Project Management
4 4 (44.44%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (44.44%) DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) Non-Functional Testing
4 4 (44.44%) OWASP
4 4 (44.44%) Security Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
5 2 (22.22%) User Experience
6 1 (11.11%) Black-Box Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Cost Reduction
6 1 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
6 1 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) QA
2 5 (55.56%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce