QA Contracts in Yorkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 71 83
Rank change year-on-year +26 +12 -10
Contract jobs citing QA 63 55 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.76% 2.40% 2.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 28.77% 18.27% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 31 46
10th Percentile £319 £413 £213
25th Percentile £388 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +16.67% +2.86%
75th Percentile £623 £550 £500
90th Percentile £731 £575 £548
England median daily rate £517 £513 £510
% change year-on-year +0.88% +0.49% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £10.86 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £12.07 - -
England median hourly rate £15.57 £22.49 £47.50
% change year-on-year -30.78% -52.66% +146.75%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 Yorkshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 219 301 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.06% 13.13% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 170 231
10th Percentile £270 £300 £160
25th Percentile £378 £413 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £638 £600
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 18
10th Percentile - £12.59 £15.93
25th Percentile £10.86 £13.16 £18.70
Median hourly rate £10.93 £28.86 £22.42
Median % change year-on-year -62.13% +28.74% +21.54%
75th Percentile £14.22 £49.08 £26.13
90th Percentile £27.41 £50.22 £31.35
England median hourly rate £22.04 £40.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year -45.25% +46.36% +30.95%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for QA in Yorkshire

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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 27 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
West Yorkshire +33 43 £524 -0.29% 47
South Yorkshire +1 15 £622 +46.35% 27
North Yorkshire - 1 £600 - 17
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England

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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 8 (12.70%) Confluence
2 4 (6.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.59%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.81%) AWS
2 14 (22.22%) Azure
3 12 (19.05%) GitHub
4 9 (14.29%) Apigee
5 6 (9.52%) GCP
5 6 (9.52%) Kong
6 4 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (6.35%) Entra ID
6 4 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.17%) SaaS
7 2 (3.17%) Slack
8 1 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.59%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.59%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.87%) DNS
2 6 (9.52%) Firewall
2 6 (9.52%) HTTP
2 6 (9.52%) TCP/IP
2 6 (9.52%) VPN
3 4 (6.35%) DHCP
3 4 (6.35%) Remote Desktop
3 4 (6.35%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (4.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (7.94%) MySQL
2 5 (7.94%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.35%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.59%) DB2
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.59%) Power BI
5 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (23.81%) Jenkins
2 10 (15.87%) GitLab
3 8 (12.70%) Git
3 8 (12.70%) JIRA
4 6 (9.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (9.52%) CircleCI
4 6 (9.52%) Selenium
4 6 (9.52%) Travis CI
5 4 (6.35%) AppScan
5 4 (6.35%) Burp Suite
5 4 (6.35%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.76%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.76%) gulp
6 3 (4.76%) JMeter
6 3 (4.76%) Maven
6 3 (4.76%) Postman
6 3 (4.76%) XCUITest
7 2 (3.17%) Cypress.io
7 2 (3.17%) JUnit
7 2 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.63%) Finance
3 9 (14.29%) Banking
4 7 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.17%) Retail
7 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (17.46%) Analyst
2 9 (14.29%) Developer
3 5 (7.94%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (6.35%) Automation Developer
4 4 (6.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 4 (6.35%) Data Centre Engineer
4 4 (6.35%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 4 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (6.35%) IT Engineer
4 4 (6.35%) Security Analyst
4 4 (6.35%) Site Engineer
4 4 (6.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (4.76%) Data Centre Technician
5 3 (4.76%) Data Technician
5 3 (4.76%) Designer
5 3 (4.76%) IT Technician
5 3 (4.76%) QA Analyst
5 3 (4.76%) QA Test Analyst
5 3 (4.76%) Security Engineer
5 3 (4.76%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.87%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (9.52%) JSON
2 6 (9.52%) XML
2 6 (9.52%) YAML
3 4 (6.35%) Gherkin
3 4 (6.35%) OAuth
3 4 (6.35%) OpenID
3 4 (6.35%) RESTful
3 4 (6.35%) SailPoint
4 3 (4.76%) .NET
4 3 (4.76%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.76%) CSS
4 3 (4.76%) HTML
4 3 (4.76%) LDAP
4 3 (4.76%) Node.js
4 3 (4.76%) SAML
5 1 (1.59%) Middleware
5 1 (1.59%) pytest
5 1 (1.59%) React
5 1 (1.59%) Series 60
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Data Structures
1 6 (9.52%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.94%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 4 (6.35%) CMDB
3 4 (6.35%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.35%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.59%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.59%) IoT
6 1 (1.59%) iSeries
6 1 (1.59%) NHS
6 1 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Android
1 5 (7.94%) Apple iOS
2 4 (6.35%) Linux
2 4 (6.35%) Windows
2 4 (6.35%) Windows 10
2 4 (6.35%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.86%) Agile
2 22 (34.92%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 18 (28.57%) Project Management
5 16 (25.40%) CI/CD
5 16 (25.40%) Scrum
6 15 (23.81%) DevOps
7 13 (20.63%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (17.46%) Computer Science
9 10 (15.87%) Containerisation
9 10 (15.87%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (12.70%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (12.70%) Configuration Management
10 8 (12.70%) Test Strategy
10 8 (12.70%) User Stories
11 7 (11.11%) Analytics
11 7 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
11 7 (11.11%) Kanban
11 7 (11.11%) Migration
11 7 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.98%) Python
2 13 (20.63%) PowerShell
3 12 (19.05%) Java
4 10 (15.87%) Bash
5 9 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.35%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.17%) SQL
8 1 (1.59%) ABAP
8 1 (1.59%) C#
8 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (14.29%) Degree
2 6 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (7.94%) A+ Certification
3 5 (7.94%) CCNA
3 5 (7.94%) Network+ Certification
4 4 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.76%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.17%) PMI Certification
6 2 (3.17%) PMP
7 1 (1.59%) CCNP
7 1 (1.59%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.59%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (15.87%) Docker
2 8 (12.70%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.94%) Hyper-V
3 5 (7.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (6.35%) KVM
4 4 (6.35%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (6.35%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (6.35%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 13 (20.63%) Ansible
2 10 (15.87%) Grafana
2 10 (15.87%) Kubernetes
2 10 (15.87%) Progress Chef
2 10 (15.87%) Prometheus
2 10 (15.87%) Puppet
2 10 (15.87%) Terraform
3 6 (9.52%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (9.52%) Kibana
3 6 (9.52%) logstash
4 4 (6.35%) Graylog
4 4 (6.35%) HP Fortify
4 4 (6.35%) Nessus
4 4 (6.35%) vCenter Server
4 4 (6.35%) WebInspect
5 3 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.87%) Splunk
3 5 (7.94%) VMware
4 4 (6.35%) Checkmarx
4 4 (6.35%) CyberArk
4 4 (6.35%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.35%) Veracode
5 3 (4.76%) Google
6 2 (3.17%) NEC
6 2 (3.17%) SAP
7 1 (1.59%) Ariba
7 1 (1.59%) Cisco
7 1 (1.59%) Cognizant