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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 53 45
Rank change year-on-year -17 -8 +3
Contract jobs citing QA 83 57 68
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.92% 4.22% 4.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.24% 24.89% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 48 49
10th Percentile £381 £303 £301
25th Percentile £451 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% -7.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £541 £585
90th Percentile £675 £575 £628
England median daily rate £479 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +2.03% -6.20% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.02 - -
Median hourly rate £32.40 - £11.88
75th Percentile £36.61 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.58 £15.96 £14.00
% change year-on-year +91.60% +14.00% -67.91%

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 410 229 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.43% 16.95% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 156 126
10th Percentile £350 £245 £263
25th Percentile £425 £349 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £582
90th Percentile £669 £600 £645
England median daily rate £510 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.00% -3.85% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 6
10th Percentile £18.53 - -
25th Percentile £22.10 - -
Median hourly rate £32.40 £22.14 £11.88
Median % change year-on-year +46.32% +86.36% -43.43%
75th Percentile £36.61 - £16.67
90th Percentile - £29.35 £33.51
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.76 £25.00
% change year-on-year +13.57% +27.04% -41.18%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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
South Yorkshire -18 43 £514 -1.11% 16
West Yorkshire -22 31 £500 +2.56% 19
North Yorkshire - 9 £550 - 3
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 17 (20.48%) Confluence
2 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.20%) Navisworks
1 1 (1.20%) ProjectWise
1 1 (1.20%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (1.20%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (1.20%) SAP FI-AP
2 1 (1.20%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.48%) Azure
2 11 (13.25%) AWS
3 6 (7.23%) GitHub
4 4 (4.82%) GCP
5 3 (3.61%) BrowserStack
5 3 (3.61%) OpenShift
5 3 (3.61%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.20%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.23%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.41%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.41%) Oracle Database 12c
2 2 (2.41%) Power BI
3 1 (1.20%) Db2
3 1 (1.20%) Metadata
3 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (27.71%) JIRA
2 9 (10.84%) Selenium
3 8 (9.64%) Git
3 8 (9.64%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.02%) Cypress.io
5 4 (4.82%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.82%) JUnit
5 4 (4.82%) TestNG
6 3 (3.61%) Gatling
6 3 (3.61%) GitLab
6 3 (3.61%) JMeter
7 2 (2.41%) Postman
7 2 (2.41%) Robot Framework
7 2 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.20%) Appium
8 1 (1.20%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.20%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (1.20%) Subversion
8 1 (1.20%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.20%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (21.69%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.07%) Finance
2 15 (18.07%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.64%) Banking
4 7 (8.43%) Aerospace
4 7 (8.43%) Manufacturing
5 6 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.82%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.61%) Retail
8 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Law
9 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Local Government
9 1 (1.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (30.12%) QA Engineer
2 17 (20.48%) Lead
3 15 (18.07%) Quality Engineer
4 12 (14.46%) Analyst
4 12 (14.46%) Business Analyst
5 9 (10.84%) QA Leader
6 7 (8.43%) Senior
6 7 (8.43%) Tester
7 6 (7.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) QA Tester
8 5 (6.02%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (6.02%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (4.82%) .NET Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Project Manager
10 3 (3.61%) Architect
10 3 (3.61%) Business Systems Analyst
10 3 (3.61%) Incident Manager
10 3 (3.61%) Major Incident Manager
10 3 (3.61%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.84%) REST
2 8 (9.64%) .NET
3 6 (7.23%) ASP.NET
4 4 (4.82%) .NET Core
4 4 (4.82%) Playwright
4 4 (4.82%) React
5 3 (3.61%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.61%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (3.61%) RESTful
5 3 (3.61%) SailPoint
5 3 (3.61%) Web Services
6 2 (2.41%) CSS
6 2 (2.41%) CSS3
6 2 (2.41%) HTML
6 2 (2.41%) HTML5
6 2 (2.41%) Kafka
6 2 (2.41%) Next.js
6 2 (2.41%) pytest
7 1 (1.20%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.23%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.20%) IoT
5 1 (1.20%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.20%) NHS
5 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.20%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.82%) Mac OS
2 2 (2.41%) Linux
2 2 (2.41%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.20%) Android
3 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.20%) Windows
3 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (30.12%) Agile
2 24 (28.92%) Test Automation
3 21 (25.30%) DevOps
4 17 (20.48%) CI/CD
5 13 (15.66%) Software Delivery
5 13 (15.66%) Software Engineering
6 12 (14.46%) User Stories
7 11 (13.25%) AI
8 10 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (9.64%) Decision-Making
9 8 (9.64%) Test Strategy
9 8 (9.64%) Validation
10 7 (8.43%) Acceptance Criteria
10 7 (8.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 7 (8.43%) Workshop Facilitation
11 6 (7.23%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (7.23%) Project Delivery
11 6 (7.23%) Red Team
11 6 (7.23%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.64%) SQL
2 6 (7.23%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.02%) C#
4 4 (4.82%) Scala
5 3 (3.61%) Python
5 3 (3.61%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.41%) Java
6 2 (2.41%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.20%) Bash
7 1 (1.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (15.66%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.61%) Degree
5 2 (2.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (2.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.41%) PMP
6 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.43%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.41%) WCAG
3 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.20%) GRC
3 1 (1.20%) ISO 19650
3 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (9.64%) Docker
2 4 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.20%) ACF2
3 1 (1.20%) RACF
3 1 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (9.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.02%) Ansible
3 2 (2.41%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (2.41%) Terraform
4 1 (1.20%) Grafana
4 1 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.20%) SCCM
4 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.82%) CyberArk
3 3 (3.61%) Centrify
3 3 (3.61%) SAP
3 3 (3.61%) ServiceNow
3 3 (3.61%) Sitecore
4 2 (2.41%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.41%) IBM
4 2 (2.41%) Oracle
4 2 (2.41%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.41%) Splunk
5 1 (1.20%) Apple
5 1 (1.20%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.20%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (1.20%) Citrix
5 1 (1.20%) New Relic
5 1 (1.20%) OpenText
5 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.20%) Workday