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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 62 36
Rank change year-on-year -5 -26 +52
Contract jobs citing QA 64 25 77
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.43% 2.18% 4.30%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.85% 19.38% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 14 53
10th Percentile £290 £289 £324
25th Percentile £345 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £435 £430
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +1.16% -11.79%
75th Percentile £530 £522 £538
90th Percentile £622 £538 £640
England median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £12.82 - -
25th Percentile £13.73 - -
Median hourly rate £15.50 - -
75th Percentile £15.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +27.48% -38.46% +14.04%

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 307 129 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.46% 11.24% 17.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 86 180
10th Percentile £283 £221 £274
25th Percentile £370 £359 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £463 £469
Median % change year-on-year +5.30% -1.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £694 £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £14.64 - -
25th Percentile £15.25 - £15.32
Median hourly rate £18.73 - £16.11
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.85%
75th Percentile £22.14 - £16.90
90th Percentile £26.37 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.11 £35.63
% change year-on-year -16.46% -15.51% +58.41%

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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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Yorkshire

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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

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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 21 December 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 -1 30 £525 +28.05% 30
South Yorkshire -22 29 £386 -31.38% 8
North Yorkshire +3 4 £315 - 7
QA
England

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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 5 (7.81%) Mule
2 4 (6.25%) Confluence
3 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.56%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 25 (39.06%) AWS
2 21 (32.81%) Azure
3 18 (28.13%) GCP
4 6 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (9.38%) GitHub
5 5 (7.81%) SaaS
5 5 (7.81%) Serverless
6 4 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.13%) Cloud Composer
7 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.13%) npm
7 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.56%) Apigee
8 1 (1.56%) Contentsquare
8 1 (1.56%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.56%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (1.56%) Kong
8 1 (1.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) Internet
2 1 (1.56%) DNS
2 1 (1.56%) Firewall
2 1 (1.56%) HTTP
2 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.81%) MySQL
2 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.69%) BigQuery
3 3 (4.69%) DocumentDB
3 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.69%) Redis
4 2 (3.13%) Cloud Spanner
4 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.13%) Power BI
5 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.56%) GIS
5 1 (1.56%) Looker
5 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 19 (29.69%) JIRA
3 13 (20.31%) GitLab
4 11 (17.19%) Cucumber
5 10 (15.63%) Git
6 9 (14.06%) Postman
6 9 (14.06%) Selenium
7 6 (9.38%) TestRail
8 5 (7.81%) Cypress.io
8 5 (7.81%) REST Assured
8 5 (7.81%) SonarQube
8 5 (7.81%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (4.69%) JUnit
9 3 (4.69%) TestNG
10 2 (3.13%) Babel
10 2 (3.13%) SoapUI
10 2 (3.13%) webpack
11 1 (1.56%) Appium
11 1 (1.56%) CircleCI
11 1 (1.56%) Travis CI
General
1 31 (48.44%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Banking
3 10 (15.63%) Finance
3 10 (15.63%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Legal
5 3 (4.69%) Local Government
5 3 (4.69%) Military
5 3 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Front Office
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (17.19%) Lead
1 11 (17.19%) Senior
2 10 (15.63%) Test Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) Project Manager
4 6 (9.38%) QA Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Consultant
6 4 (6.25%) SAP Manager
6 4 (6.25%) SAP Project Manager
6 4 (6.25%) Senior Manager
6 4 (6.25%) Service Manager
6 4 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Build Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Java Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Project Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.63%) Node.js
2 9 (14.06%) REST
3 8 (12.50%) React
4 7 (10.94%) RESTful
5 5 (7.81%) .NET
5 5 (7.81%) LDAP
5 5 (7.81%) OpenID
5 5 (7.81%) SailPoint
5 5 (7.81%) Spring
6 4 (6.25%) AngularJS
6 4 (6.25%) CSS
6 4 (6.25%) CSS3
6 4 (6.25%) HTML
6 4 (6.25%) HTML5
6 4 (6.25%) Kafka
6 4 (6.25%) Playwright
7 3 (4.69%) Hibernate
8 2 (3.13%) DOM
8 2 (3.13%) Express.js
8 2 (3.13%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (9.38%) Onboarding
1 6 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.81%) Distributed Applications
2 5 (7.81%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.69%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.56%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.56%) NHS
5 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.56%) SCADA
5 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (46.88%) CI/CD
2 26 (40.63%) DevOps
3 24 (37.50%) Agile
4 20 (31.25%) Microservices
5 18 (28.13%) Test Automation
6 17 (26.56%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (21.88%) ETL
8 13 (20.31%) Test Scripting
9 12 (18.75%) Project Management
9 12 (18.75%) Scrum
9 12 (18.75%) Test Strategy
10 11 (17.19%) BDD
10 11 (17.19%) Manual Testing
10 11 (17.19%) User Acceptance Testing
11 9 (14.06%) Business Case
11 9 (14.06%) Software Testing
12 8 (12.50%) Migration
12 8 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
12 8 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
13 7 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.44%) Java
2 10 (15.63%) JavaScript
3 9 (14.06%) Python
3 9 (14.06%) SQL
4 7 (10.94%) TypeScript
5 5 (7.81%) PHP
6 1 (1.56%) Bash
6 1 (1.56%) C#
6 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.81%) Degree
3 4 (6.25%) ISTQB
3 4 (6.25%) PMP
3 4 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) CISSP
5 2 (3.13%) CISM
5 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 7 (10.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (7.81%) WCAG
4 3 (4.69%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.69%) PMO
5 2 (3.13%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
5 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 2 (3.13%) ISO17020
6 1 (1.56%) NCSC
6 1 (1.56%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (14.06%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.38%) Grafana
3 3 (4.69%) Terraform
4 1 (1.56%) Ansible
4 1 (1.56%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.56%) Kibana
4 1 (1.56%) logstash
4 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Google
2 9 (14.06%) SAP
3 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 6 (9.38%) Splunk
5 5 (7.81%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.69%) ESRI
7 2 (3.13%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (3.13%) CyberArk
7 2 (3.13%) Thycotic
8 1 (1.56%) Databricks
8 1 (1.56%) Hotjar
8 1 (1.56%) MarketAxess
8 1 (1.56%) Optimizely
8 1 (1.56%) Oracle
8 1 (1.56%) Planview
8 1 (1.56%) Tradeweb