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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 48 40
Rank change year-on-year -33 -8 +19
Contract jobs citing QA 67 41 72
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.59% 3.93% 4.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.14% 25.47% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 38 51
10th Percentile £350 £263 £313
25th Percentile £453 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £618 £547 £600
90th Percentile £683 £575 £645
England median daily rate £485 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +2.11% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.02 - -
Median hourly rate £32.40 - £10.86
75th Percentile £36.61 - £11.63
90th Percentile - - £12.38
England median hourly rate £30.29 £52.50 £15.38
% change year-on-year -42.30% +241.35% -31.60%

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 350 161 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.51% 15.44% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 110 120
10th Percentile £350 £235 £307
25th Percentile £443 £289 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £503
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.47% -4.29%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £588
90th Percentile £685 £600 £650
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 9
10th Percentile £15.83 - -
25th Percentile £22.03 - £10.86
Median hourly rate £28.20 £22.14 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.36% +101.27% -48.84%
75th Percentile £34.77 - £12.88
90th Percentile £36.61 £34.21 £24.37
England median hourly rate £32.40 £34.50 £23.05
% change year-on-year -6.10% +49.71% -41.67%

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 23 May 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

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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 23 May 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 -35 39 £493 -5.24% 18
West Yorkshire -19 26 £580 +22.11% 27
North Yorkshire - 2 £525 - 12
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 6 (8.96%) Confluence
2 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (7.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.49%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (1.49%) SAP FI-AP
2 1 (1.49%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 20 (29.85%) Azure
2 11 (16.42%) AWS
3 9 (13.43%) GCP
4 5 (7.46%) SaaS
5 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (5.97%) GitHub
5 4 (5.97%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.48%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (4.48%) BrowserStack
6 3 (4.48%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.49%) Apigee
8 1 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.49%) Kong
8 1 (1.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.49%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) DNS
1 1 (1.49%) Firewall
1 1 (1.49%) HTTP
1 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.46%) MySQL
3 3 (4.48%) Neo4j
4 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (2.99%) Power BI
5 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.49%) GIS
5 1 (1.49%) Metadata
5 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (26.87%) JIRA
2 13 (19.40%) Jenkins
2 13 (19.40%) Selenium
3 12 (17.91%) GitLab
4 9 (13.43%) Cucumber
4 9 (13.43%) Postman
5 6 (8.96%) Gatling
5 6 (8.96%) Git
5 6 (8.96%) JMeter
5 6 (8.96%) REST Assured
6 5 (7.46%) TestRail
7 4 (5.97%) Cypress.io
7 4 (5.97%) JUnit
7 4 (5.97%) TestNG
8 3 (4.48%) LoadRunner
8 3 (4.48%) NeoLoad
9 2 (2.99%) Robot Framework
10 1 (1.49%) Appium
10 1 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.49%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (28.36%) Social Skills
2 17 (25.37%) Finance
3 11 (16.42%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.96%) Banking
6 3 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.99%) Law
7 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Local Government
8 1 (1.49%) Retail
8 1 (1.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (20.90%) Lead
2 12 (17.91%) Project Manager
3 10 (14.93%) QA Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) Business Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) Test Automation Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) Test Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Quality Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) SAP Manager
5 5 (7.46%) SAP Project Manager
5 5 (7.46%) Tester
6 4 (5.97%) Automation Test Lead
6 4 (5.97%) Consultant
6 4 (5.97%) QA Tester
6 4 (5.97%) Senior
7 3 (4.48%) Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Senior Manager
7 3 (4.48%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.91%) REST
2 8 (11.94%) LDAP
2 8 (11.94%) OpenID
2 8 (11.94%) SailPoint
3 7 (10.45%) .NET
4 4 (5.97%) Playwright
5 2 (2.99%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.99%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (2.99%) JSON
5 2 (2.99%) Kafka
5 2 (2.99%) Next.js
5 2 (2.99%) pytest
5 2 (2.99%) React
5 2 (2.99%) RESTful
6 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.49%) Spring
6 1 (1.49%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.49%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) XML
6 1 (1.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.97%) Cloud Native
1 4 (5.97%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.49%) IoT
3 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.49%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.97%) Mac OS
2 2 (2.99%) Linux
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.49%) Android
3 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.31%) DevOps
2 20 (29.85%) CI/CD
3 19 (28.36%) Test Automation
4 16 (23.88%) Agile
5 15 (22.39%) Project Management
6 13 (19.40%) Business Case
7 12 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (16.42%) Project Delivery
8 11 (16.42%) Scenario Testing
8 11 (16.42%) Validation
9 10 (14.93%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (14.93%) ETL
9 10 (14.93%) Test Strategy
10 9 (13.43%) API Testing
10 9 (13.43%) System Integration Testing
10 9 (13.43%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (11.94%) Operational Acceptance Testing
11 8 (11.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (11.94%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.40%) Python
2 10 (14.93%) Java
2 10 (14.93%) SQL
3 9 (13.43%) JavaScript
4 7 (10.45%) Scala
5 5 (7.46%) PHP
6 4 (5.97%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.48%) Cypher
7 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.99%) Bash
8 2 (2.99%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (11.94%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.46%) PMP
2 5 (7.46%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.48%) Degree
4 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.49%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.49%) NCSC
4 1 (1.49%) NIST
4 1 (1.49%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (8.96%) Docker
2 3 (4.48%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (8.96%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.48%) Ansible
2 3 (4.48%) Terraform
3 2 (2.99%) Grafana
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.49%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.49%) Kibana
4 1 (1.49%) logstash
4 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (13.43%) SAP
1 9 (13.43%) ServiceNow
2 4 (5.97%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.48%) ESRI
3 3 (4.48%) Sitecore
3 3 (4.48%) Splunk
4 2 (2.99%) Google
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle
4 2 (2.99%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.49%) Databricks
5 1 (1.49%) IBM
5 1 (1.49%) New Relic
5 1 (1.49%) OpenText
5 1 (1.49%) Planview
5 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.49%) Workday