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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 64 47
Rank change year-on-year +11 -17 -6
Contract jobs citing QA 115 57 57
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.94% 3.62% 3.86%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.95% 22.35% 36.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 46 41
10th Percentile £350 £280 £263
25th Percentile £415 £346 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £473 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -14.09% +13.75%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £585
90th Percentile £626 £566 £638
England median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.02 - -
Median hourly rate £36.07 £12.21 £11.88
Median % change year-on-year +195.41% +2.78% -44.74%
75th Percentile £36.61 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £31.46 £15.96 £14.13
% change year-on-year +97.12% +12.95% -71.74%

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 461 255 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.80% 16.21% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 174 100
10th Percentile £350 £235 £263
25th Percentile £413 £323 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% -7.00% -
75th Percentile £566 £538 £584
90th Percentile £644 £600 £645
England median daily rate £513 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.50% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 11 5
10th Percentile £15.39 - -
25th Percentile £19.69 £17.48 -
Median hourly rate £32.40 £22.14 £11.88
Median % change year-on-year +46.32% +86.36% -42.05%
75th Percentile £36.61 - -
90th Percentile - - £34.00
England median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £34.47
% change year-on-year -0.32% -5.70% -12.57%

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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 1 October 2026.

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 1 October 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 -2 59 £475 +5.56% 36
West Yorkshire -6 46 £456 -3.95% 84
North Yorkshire - 8 £550 - 7
East Yorkshire -3 1 £500 +73.91% 4
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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 21 (18.26%) Confluence
2 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.74%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.87%) Navisworks
3 1 (0.87%) ProjectWise
3 1 (0.87%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.87%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 1 (0.87%) SAP FI-AP
1 1 (0.87%) SAP Retail
1 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (22.61%) Azure
2 18 (15.65%) AWS
3 11 (9.57%) GitHub
4 7 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.48%) GCP
6 3 (2.61%) Azure AKS
6 3 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (2.61%) BrowserStack
7 2 (1.74%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.74%) Google Data Studio
7 2 (1.74%) IaaS
7 2 (1.74%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.74%) PaaS
7 2 (1.74%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.87%) Figma
8 1 (0.87%) Lucidchart
8 1 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.87%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.74%) Firewall
2 1 (0.87%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.96%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.74%) Db2
2 2 (1.74%) Delta Lake
2 2 (1.74%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.74%) Power Query
3 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.87%) Metadata
3 1 (0.87%) Power BI
3 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (23.48%) JIRA
2 12 (10.43%) Git
3 8 (6.96%) Selenium
4 6 (5.22%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.35%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.35%) Cypress.io
5 5 (4.35%) JUnit
6 4 (3.48%) TestNG
7 3 (2.61%) Gatling
7 3 (2.61%) Postman
7 3 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.61%) Zephyr
8 2 (1.74%) Appium
8 2 (1.74%) GitLab
8 2 (1.74%) JMeter
8 2 (1.74%) Tricentis qTest
9 1 (0.87%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.87%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.87%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.87%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (26.96%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.52%) Finance
3 18 (15.65%) Public Sector
4 14 (12.17%) Aerospace
4 14 (12.17%) Manufacturing
5 10 (8.70%) Banking
6 8 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.35%) Retail
8 4 (3.48%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.61%) Law
10 2 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.87%) Local Government
11 1 (0.87%) Military
11 1 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.87%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (31.30%) QA Engineer
2 27 (23.48%) Quality Engineer
3 16 (13.91%) Analyst
3 16 (13.91%) Lead
4 15 (13.04%) Senior
5 14 (12.17%) Developer
6 9 (7.83%) Business Analyst
6 9 (7.83%) QA Leader
7 7 (6.09%) Tester
8 6 (5.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) QA Tester
8 6 (5.22%) Technical Analyst
8 6 (5.22%) Technical Business Analyst
9 5 (4.35%) .NET Developer
10 4 (3.48%) Architect
11 3 (2.61%) Consultant
11 3 (2.61%) Incident Manager
11 3 (2.61%) Java Developer
11 3 (2.61%) Project Manager
11 3 (2.61%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.65%) REST
2 12 (10.43%) .NET
3 10 (8.70%) ASP.NET
4 8 (6.96%) .NET Core
4 8 (6.96%) React
5 6 (5.22%) Playwright
5 6 (5.22%) RESTful
5 6 (5.22%) SailPoint
5 6 (5.22%) Web Services
6 5 (4.35%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.35%) JSON
6 5 (4.35%) Kafka
6 5 (4.35%) Spring
6 5 (4.35%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.48%) OpenAPI
7 4 (3.48%) Swagger
7 4 (3.48%) Terraform
8 3 (2.61%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (2.61%) Next.js
8 3 (2.61%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.96%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (6.09%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.22%) AI Agents
3 6 (5.22%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.74%) Replication
5 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.87%) FMCG
5 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.87%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.87%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.48%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.87%) Android
2 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.87%) Windows
2 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (33.91%) Test Automation
2 35 (30.43%) Agile
3 27 (23.48%) CI/CD
4 25 (21.74%) DevOps
5 21 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (15.65%) AI
7 17 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (13.91%) Software Delivery
9 14 (12.17%) Software Engineering
10 11 (9.57%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (9.57%) Test Strategy
11 10 (8.70%) User Stories
12 9 (7.83%) Acceptance Criteria
12 9 (7.83%) User Acceptance Testing
12 9 (7.83%) Workshop Facilitation
13 8 (6.96%) Defect Management
13 8 (6.96%) ITSM
13 8 (6.96%) SDLC
13 8 (6.96%) Validation
14 7 (6.09%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.57%) Java
1 11 (9.57%) SQL
2 8 (6.96%) C#
3 7 (6.09%) JavaScript
3 7 (6.09%) TypeScript
4 6 (5.22%) Python
5 4 (3.48%) Scala
6 1 (0.87%) Bicep
6 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.87%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (10.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.57%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.48%) Degree
3 4 (3.48%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.74%) IIBA
6 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.87%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.61%) GRC
2 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.74%) GDPR
3 2 (1.74%) ISO 14001
3 2 (1.74%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.74%) PMO
3 2 (1.74%) SLA
3 2 (1.74%) WCAG
4 1 (0.87%) COSHH
4 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.87%) HL7
4 1 (0.87%) ISO 19650
4 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 10 (8.70%) Docker
2 7 (6.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.74%) ACF2
3 2 (1.74%) RACF
4 1 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (7.83%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (0.87%) Grafana
3 1 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.87%) SCCM
3 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (12.17%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.96%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.22%) CyberArk
4 5 (4.35%) Centrify
5 3 (2.61%) Databricks
5 3 (2.61%) IBM
5 3 (2.61%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.74%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.74%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.74%) Foundry
6 2 (1.74%) Fujitsu
6 2 (1.74%) Google
6 2 (1.74%) Palantir
6 2 (1.74%) SAP
6 2 (1.74%) Splunk
7 1 (0.87%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (0.87%) Citrix
7 1 (0.87%) New Relic
7 1 (0.87%) Okta
7 1 (0.87%) Red Hat