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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 53 50
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing QA 99 62 56
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.45% 4.09% 3.69%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.92% 24.22% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 53 41
10th Percentile £350 £286 £263
25th Percentile £438 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £530 £585
90th Percentile £675 £575 £638
England median daily rate £485 £475 £499
% change year-on-year +2.11% -4.81% -4.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.02 - -
Median hourly rate £36.07 - £11.88
75th Percentile £36.61 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £32.20 £15.96 £13.75
% change year-on-year +101.74% +16.07% -71.05%

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 432 256 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.06% 16.90% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 171 110
10th Percentile £350 £235 £263
25th Percentile £420 £322 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £512
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.11% +0.54%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £643 £600 £650
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 17 6
10th Percentile £18.53 £17.48 -
25th Percentile £24.43 - -
Median hourly rate £32.40 £22.14 £11.88
Median % change year-on-year +46.32% +86.36% -42.05%
75th Percentile £36.61 - £16.67
90th Percentile - £23.28 £33.51
England median hourly rate £38.11 £31.64 £27.50
% change year-on-year +20.45% +15.05% -21.43%

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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 19 August 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 19 August 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 0 56 £513 +2.50% 13
West Yorkshire -23 34 £481 -3.75% 46
North Yorkshire - 8 £550 - 12
East Yorkshire -4 1 £500 +73.91% 1
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 21 (21.21%) Confluence
2 2 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.02%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.01%) Navisworks
3 1 (1.01%) ProjectWise
3 1 (1.01%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (1.01%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 1 (1.01%) SAP FI-AP
1 1 (1.01%) SAP Retail
1 1 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (21.21%) Azure
2 14 (14.14%) AWS
3 8 (8.08%) GitHub
4 4 (4.04%) GCP
4 4 (4.04%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (3.03%) BrowserStack
5 3 (3.03%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.02%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.02%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.01%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.08%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.03%) Power BI
3 2 (2.02%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.02%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.02%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (2.02%) Power Query
4 1 (1.01%) Db2
4 1 (1.01%) Metadata
4 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (28.28%) JIRA
2 9 (9.09%) Selenium
3 8 (8.08%) Git
3 8 (8.08%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.05%) Cucumber
4 5 (5.05%) Cypress.io
4 5 (5.05%) JUnit
5 4 (4.04%) TestNG
6 3 (3.03%) Gatling
6 3 (3.03%) Postman
6 3 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.03%) Zephyr
7 2 (2.02%) GitLab
7 2 (2.02%) JMeter
7 2 (2.02%) Robot Framework
7 2 (2.02%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (1.01%) Appium
8 1 (1.01%) Mockito
8 1 (1.01%) Subversion
8 1 (1.01%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (18.18%) Public Sector
1 18 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.15%) Finance
3 13 (13.13%) Aerospace
3 13 (13.13%) Manufacturing
4 8 (8.08%) Banking
5 6 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.04%) Retail
6 4 (4.04%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.03%) Law
8 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Local Government
9 1 (1.01%) Military
9 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (35.35%) QA Engineer
2 24 (24.24%) Quality Engineer
3 18 (18.18%) Lead
4 13 (13.13%) Analyst
5 10 (10.10%) Business Analyst
6 9 (9.09%) QA Leader
7 8 (8.08%) Senior
7 8 (8.08%) Tester
8 7 (7.07%) Developer
9 6 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (6.06%) QA Tester
10 5 (5.05%) .NET Developer
10 5 (5.05%) Technical Analyst
10 5 (5.05%) Technical Business Analyst
11 3 (3.03%) Architect
11 3 (3.03%) Incident Manager
11 3 (3.03%) Major Incident Manager
11 3 (3.03%) Project Manager
11 3 (3.03%) Technical Leader
11 3 (3.03%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.14%) REST
2 10 (10.10%) .NET
3 8 (8.08%) ASP.NET
4 6 (6.06%) .NET Core
4 6 (6.06%) SailPoint
5 5 (5.05%) AngularJS
5 5 (5.05%) Playwright
5 5 (5.05%) React
5 5 (5.05%) Web Services
6 3 (3.03%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (3.03%) Kafka
6 3 (3.03%) Next.js
6 3 (3.03%) RESTful
7 2 (2.02%) CSS
7 2 (2.02%) CSS3
7 2 (2.02%) HTML
7 2 (2.02%) HTML5
7 2 (2.02%) JSON
7 2 (2.02%) pytest
7 2 (2.02%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.06%) AI Agents
3 5 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.01%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.01%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.01%) NHS
6 1 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.04%) Mac OS
2 2 (2.02%) Linux
2 2 (2.02%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.01%) Android
3 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.01%) Windows
3 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (29.29%) Agile
2 28 (28.28%) Test Automation
3 21 (21.21%) DevOps
4 18 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 16 (16.16%) Software Delivery
6 12 (12.12%) AI
6 12 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (12.12%) Software Engineering
7 11 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (11.11%) User Stories
8 10 (10.10%) Validation
9 9 (9.09%) Test Strategy
10 8 (8.08%) Acceptance Criteria
10 8 (8.08%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (8.08%) Workshop Facilitation
11 7 (7.07%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 7 (7.07%) Performance Testing
12 6 (6.06%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (6.06%) Decision-Making
12 6 (6.06%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.11%) SQL
2 6 (6.06%) C#
2 6 (6.06%) JavaScript
3 4 (4.04%) Java
3 4 (4.04%) Python
3 4 (4.04%) Scala
3 4 (4.04%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.01%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.04%) Degree
3 4 (4.04%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.02%) IIBA
5 2 (2.02%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (2.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.01%) PMP
6 1 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.03%) GRC
3 2 (2.02%) WCAG
4 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.01%) ISO 19650
4 1 (1.01%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (11.11%) Docker
2 7 (7.07%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.01%) ACF2
3 1 (1.01%) RACF
3 1 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (10.10%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.07%) Ansible
3 2 (2.02%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (2.02%) Terraform
4 1 (1.01%) Grafana
4 1 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.01%) SCCM
4 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.06%) CyberArk
2 6 (6.06%) ServiceNow
3 5 (5.05%) Centrify
4 4 (4.04%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.02%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.02%) Google
5 2 (2.02%) IBM
5 2 (2.02%) Oracle
5 2 (2.02%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.02%) SAP
5 2 (2.02%) Splunk
6 1 (1.01%) Apple
6 1 (1.01%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.01%) Citrix
6 1 (1.01%) Databricks
6 1 (1.01%) New Relic
6 1 (1.01%) Okta
6 1 (1.01%) OpenText
6 1 (1.01%) Salesforce