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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 55 54
Rank change year-on-year -25 -1 +18
Contract jobs citing QA 60 30 52
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.64% 3.22% 3.01%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.05% 20.83% 23.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 25 32
10th Percentile £358 £263 £319
25th Percentile £449 £350 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £618 £550 £659
90th Percentile £681 £575 £750
England median daily rate £494 £486 £516
% change year-on-year +1.49% -5.77% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.25 - -
Median hourly rate £15.50 - £10.86
75th Percentile £15.75 - -
90th Percentile - - £12.07
England median hourly rate £40.00 £51.25 £16.13
% change year-on-year -21.95% +217.78% -28.27%

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 352 144 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.49% 15.43% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 101 121
10th Percentile £350 £143 £281
25th Percentile £431 £313 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £587 £550 £582
90th Percentile £681 £625 £688
England median daily rate £510 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 6
10th Percentile £14.75 - -
25th Percentile £15.25 - -
Median hourly rate £16.31 £22.14 £10.86
Median % change year-on-year -26.33% +103.87% -48.56%
75th Percentile £21.13 £25.14 £10.97
90th Percentile £26.98 £34.24 £11.94
England median hourly rate £28.28 £32.66 £22.75
% change year-on-year -13.41% +43.54% -46.47%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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
West Yorkshire -11 28 £595 +64.14% 35
South Yorkshire -42 26 £468 -9.13% 10
North Yorkshire - 6 £420 - 2
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 4 (6.67%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (38.33%) Azure
2 15 (25.00%) AWS
3 11 (18.33%) GCP
4 6 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (8.33%) SaaS
6 3 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (5.00%) OpenShift
6 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.33%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (1.67%) Apigee
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.67%) GitHub
8 1 (1.67%) Kong
8 1 (1.67%) OCI
8 1 (1.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) Internet
2 1 (1.67%) DNS
2 1 (1.67%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) HTTP
2 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.33%) MySQL
3 4 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.00%) Neo4j
4 3 (5.00%) Power BI
5 2 (3.33%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.33%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.33%) GIS
5 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 16 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 15 (25.00%) JIRA
3 14 (23.33%) GitLab
4 10 (16.67%) Cucumber
5 9 (15.00%) Postman
6 8 (13.33%) Selenium
7 6 (10.00%) TestRail
8 5 (8.33%) JMeter
8 5 (8.33%) REST Assured
9 4 (6.67%) Cypress.io
10 3 (5.00%) Gatling
10 3 (5.00%) Git
10 3 (5.00%) LoadRunner
10 3 (5.00%) NeoLoad
11 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (1.67%) CircleCI
11 1 (1.67%) Robot Framework
11 1 (1.67%) Subversion
11 1 (1.67%) Travis CI
11 1 (1.67%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.33%) Finance
3 11 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Banking
6 2 (3.33%) Legal
6 2 (3.33%) Military
7 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Front Office
7 1 (1.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (20.00%) Lead
1 12 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 10 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 9 (15.00%) Senior
4 7 (11.67%) SAP Manager
4 7 (11.67%) SAP Project Manager
5 6 (10.00%) Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Business Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Build Manager
7 4 (6.67%) QA Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Manager
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Test Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Automation Test Lead
8 3 (5.00%) Consultant
8 3 (5.00%) Senior Project Manager
8 3 (5.00%) Software Manager
8 3 (5.00%) Test Leader
9 2 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) REST
2 8 (13.33%) LDAP
2 8 (13.33%) OpenID
2 8 (13.33%) SailPoint
3 7 (11.67%) Playwright
4 5 (8.33%) .NET
5 4 (6.67%) Node.js
6 2 (3.33%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.33%) JSON
6 2 (3.33%) LangChain
6 2 (3.33%) LangGraph
6 2 (3.33%) React
6 2 (3.33%) RESTful
6 2 (3.33%) Spring
6 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.67%) ADO
7 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.67%) pytest
7 1 (1.67%) XML
7 1 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.67%) IoT
3 1 (1.67%) NHS
3 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.67%) SCADA
3 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Linux
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle Linux
1 2 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 23 (38.33%) DevOps
3 21 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (31.67%) Agile
5 18 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 16 (26.67%) Project Management
7 15 (25.00%) Business Case
8 12 (20.00%) Test Strategy
9 11 (18.33%) ETL
9 11 (18.33%) Project Delivery
9 11 (18.33%) Test Scripting
10 10 (16.67%) BDD
10 10 (16.67%) Manual Testing
10 10 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
10 10 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
10 10 (16.67%) Validation
11 9 (15.00%) Migration
11 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (13.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.33%) Java
2 12 (20.00%) Python
3 9 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (15.00%) SQL
4 8 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 5 (8.33%) PHP
6 3 (5.00%) Cypher
6 3 (5.00%) Scala
7 2 (3.33%) Bash
7 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.67%) PMP
3 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.67%) Degree
5 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 5 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.33%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
2 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 2 (3.33%) ISO17020
2 2 (3.33%) PMO
3 1 (1.67%) NCSC
3 1 (1.67%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
1 3 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (8.33%) Grafana
2 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.00%) Ansible
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (3.33%) Terraform
5 1 (1.67%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (1.67%) Kibana
5 1 (1.67%) logstash
5 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (21.67%) SAP
2 8 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 5 (8.33%) Splunk
4 4 (6.67%) ESRI
4 4 (6.67%) Google
4 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.00%) Oracle
6 1 (1.67%) Databricks
6 1 (1.67%) MarketAxess
6 1 (1.67%) Planview
6 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.67%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.67%) Tradeweb
6 1 (1.67%) Workday