QA Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 49 42
Rank change year-on-year -37 -7 +26
Contract jobs citing QA 62 40 63
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.56% 3.94% 3.75%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.17% 25.97% 28.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 36 44
10th Percentile £350 £263 £319
25th Percentile £448 £359 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £618 £556 £623
90th Percentile £679 £575 £731
England median daily rate £488 £478 £521
% change year-on-year +2.02% -8.28% +1.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £10.86
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £12.07
England median hourly rate £30.58 £50.00 £15.38
% change year-on-year -38.84% +225.10% -31.60%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Yorkshire

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 361 154 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.93% 15.16% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 108 125
10th Percentile £340 £209 £272
25th Percentile £425 £313 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £551 £588
90th Percentile £676 £625 £650
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 8
10th Percentile £15.13 - -
25th Percentile £17.51 - £10.86
Median hourly rate £22.05 £22.14 £10.93
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% +102.56% -55.39%
75th Percentile £23.53 £25.14 £14.22
90th Percentile £27.93 £34.24 £27.41
England median hourly rate £30.58 £35.00 £20.80
% change year-on-year -12.63% +68.25% -51.05%

QA
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

QA job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

QA
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing QA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing QA

QA
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Yorkshire

QA
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing QA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing QA

QA
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 within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 April 2026. 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 -7 31 £595 +28.65% 18
South Yorkshire -46 28 £468 -9.96% 11
North Yorkshire - 3 £420 - 8
QA
England

QA
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.45%) Confluence
2 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (9.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.23%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.61%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (1.61%) SAP FI-AP
3 1 (1.61%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.87%) Azure
2 11 (17.74%) AWS
3 10 (16.13%) GCP
4 5 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.06%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (8.06%) SaaS
5 4 (6.45%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (4.84%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.23%) GitHub
7 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.61%) Apigee
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.61%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.61%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (1.61%) Kong
8 1 (1.61%) OCI
8 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) DNS
1 1 (1.61%) Firewall
1 1 (1.61%) HTTP
1 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.06%) MySQL
3 3 (4.84%) Neo4j
4 2 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.23%) GIS
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (3.23%) Power BI
5 1 (1.61%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.61%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.61%) Metadata
5 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (25.81%) JIRA
2 13 (20.97%) Jenkins
3 11 (17.74%) GitLab
3 11 (17.74%) Selenium
4 9 (14.52%) Cucumber
4 9 (14.52%) Postman
5 6 (9.68%) TestRail
6 5 (8.06%) JMeter
6 5 (8.06%) REST Assured
7 4 (6.45%) Cypress.io
7 4 (6.45%) Gatling
8 3 (4.84%) Git
8 3 (4.84%) JUnit
8 3 (4.84%) LoadRunner
8 3 (4.84%) NeoLoad
8 3 (4.84%) TestNG
9 2 (3.23%) Robot Framework
10 1 (1.61%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.61%) Subversion
10 1 (1.61%) Travis CI
General
1 22 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.42%) Finance
3 10 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 9 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Banking
7 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Law
7 1 (1.61%) Military
7 1 (1.61%) Retail
7 1 (1.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (22.58%) Project Manager
2 12 (19.35%) Lead
3 8 (12.90%) SAP Manager
3 8 (12.90%) SAP Project Manager
4 7 (11.29%) Analyst
4 7 (11.29%) Business Analyst
4 7 (11.29%) Senior
4 7 (11.29%) Test Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Senior Manager
6 5 (8.06%) Tester
7 4 (6.45%) Build Manager
7 4 (6.45%) Consultant
7 4 (6.45%) Senior Project Manager
8 3 (4.84%) Automation Test Lead
8 3 (4.84%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) QA Tester
8 3 (4.84%) Senior SAP Project Manager
8 3 (4.84%) Software Manager
8 3 (4.84%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.13%) REST
2 8 (12.90%) LDAP
2 8 (12.90%) OpenID
2 8 (12.90%) SailPoint
3 5 (8.06%) .NET
4 4 (6.45%) Playwright
5 2 (3.23%) JSON
5 2 (3.23%) pytest
6 1 (1.61%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.61%) LangChain
6 1 (1.61%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.61%) Node.js
6 1 (1.61%) React
6 1 (1.61%) RESTful
6 1 (1.61%) Spring
6 1 (1.61%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.61%) XML
6 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.68%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.61%) IoT
3 1 (1.61%) NHS
3 1 (1.61%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.61%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Mac OS
2 2 (3.23%) Linux
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.10%) DevOps
2 20 (32.26%) CI/CD
3 18 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (29.03%) Project Management
4 16 (25.81%) Agile
4 16 (25.81%) Business Case
5 15 (24.19%) Test Automation
6 13 (20.97%) Project Delivery
7 12 (19.35%) Validation
8 11 (17.74%) ETL
8 11 (17.74%) Scenario Testing
9 10 (16.13%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (14.52%) Budget Management
10 9 (14.52%) Commercial Awareness
10 9 (14.52%) System Integration Testing
10 9 (14.52%) Test Scripting
10 9 (14.52%) Test Strategy
11 8 (12.90%) Data Ingestion
11 8 (12.90%) GitOps
11 8 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.97%) Python
2 10 (16.13%) Java
2 10 (16.13%) SQL
3 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.06%) PHP
4 5 (8.06%) Scala
5 4 (6.45%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.84%) Cypher
6 3 (4.84%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.23%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) PMP
1 8 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.23%) Degree
4 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.23%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.61%) NCSC
4 1 (1.61%) NIST
4 1 (1.61%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) Docker
2 3 (4.84%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (8.06%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.84%) Ansible
3 2 (3.23%) Grafana
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (3.23%) Terraform
4 1 (1.61%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.61%) Kibana
4 1 (1.61%) logstash
4 1 (1.61%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (20.97%) SAP
2 9 (14.52%) ServiceNow
3 5 (8.06%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.45%) ESRI
5 3 (4.84%) Google
5 3 (4.84%) Oracle
6 2 (3.23%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.23%) Splunk
7 1 (1.61%) Databricks
7 1 (1.61%) OpenText
7 1 (1.61%) Planview
7 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.61%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.61%) Workday