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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 61 33
Rank change year-on-year -15 -28 +60
Contract jobs citing QA 57 33 89
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.18% 2.43% 4.68%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.94% 23.24% 26.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 16 55
10th Percentile £280 £263 £328
25th Percentile £332 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £530 £538
90th Percentile £600 £575 £600
England median daily rate £492 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +3.58% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £12.82 - -
25th Percentile £13.73 - £20.75
Median hourly rate £15.50 £11.88 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.47% -44.74% -57.00%
75th Percentile £15.75 - £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.10 £13.26 £50.00
% change year-on-year +21.42% -73.48% +92.31%

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 301 142 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.77% 10.44% 17.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 88 189
10th Percentile £268 £204 £230
25th Percentile £360 £357 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £614 £700 £603
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 2
10th Percentile £15.25 - £15.86
25th Percentile £17.48 - £16.68
Median hourly rate £22.14 £11.88 £18.81
Median % change year-on-year +86.36% -36.83% -5.67%
75th Percentile - - £20.91
90th Percentile £24.14 - £21.72
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.67 £36.75
% change year-on-year -17.98% -16.56% +56.38%

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 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 32 £500 +11.11% 45
South Yorkshire -14 20 £358 -28.40% 7
North Yorkshire +6 4 £315 - 6
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 5 (8.77%) Mule
2 3 (5.26%) Confluence
3 1 (1.75%) Apache
3 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) SAP ERP
1 2 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.75%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 20 (35.09%) AWS
2 15 (26.32%) Azure
3 12 (21.05%) GCP
4 5 (8.77%) GitHub
4 5 (8.77%) Serverless
5 4 (7.02%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.51%) Cloud Composer
6 2 (3.51%) npm
6 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.75%) Contentsquare
7 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.75%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.75%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.75%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) MongoDB
2 5 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.02%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.26%) BigQuery
4 3 (5.26%) DocumentDB
4 3 (5.26%) Redis
5 2 (3.51%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (3.51%) MySQL
5 2 (3.51%) Power BI
6 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.75%) GIS
6 1 (1.75%) Looker
6 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (29.82%) JIRA
2 15 (26.32%) Jenkins
3 11 (19.30%) Git
4 8 (14.04%) GitLab
5 7 (12.28%) SonarQube
5 7 (12.28%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (8.77%) Cucumber
7 4 (7.02%) Cypress.io
7 4 (7.02%) Postman
7 4 (7.02%) Selenium
8 3 (5.26%) JUnit
8 3 (5.26%) TestNG
9 2 (3.51%) Artifactory
9 2 (3.51%) Babel
9 2 (3.51%) SoapUI
9 2 (3.51%) TestRail
9 2 (3.51%) webpack
9 2 (3.51%) Zephyr
10 1 (1.75%) Appium
10 1 (1.75%) JMeter
General
1 25 (43.86%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.05%) Banking
3 10 (17.54%) Public Sector
4 8 (14.04%) Finance
5 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.26%) Legal
6 3 (5.26%) Local Government
7 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Military
8 1 (1.75%) Front Office
8 1 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Marketing
8 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (15.79%) Lead
1 9 (15.79%) Senior
2 6 (10.53%) Developer
2 6 (10.53%) QA Engineer
2 6 (10.53%) Test Engineer
3 4 (7.02%) Analyst
3 4 (7.02%) Senior Test Engineer
3 4 (7.02%) Service Manager
4 3 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (5.26%) AWS Software Engineer
4 3 (5.26%) Consultant
4 3 (5.26%) Java Engineer
4 3 (5.26%) Node.js Developer
4 3 (5.26%) Project Manager
4 3 (5.26%) SAP Manager
4 3 (5.26%) SAP Project Manager
4 3 (5.26%) Senior Manager
4 3 (5.26%) Software Engineer
4 3 (5.26%) Test Analyst
4 3 (5.26%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.30%) Node.js
2 9 (15.79%) RESTful
3 8 (14.04%) React
4 6 (10.53%) Spring
5 4 (7.02%) AngularJS
5 4 (7.02%) CSS
5 4 (7.02%) CSS3
5 4 (7.02%) HTML
5 4 (7.02%) HTML5
5 4 (7.02%) Kafka
5 4 (7.02%) Playwright
5 4 (7.02%) REST
6 3 (5.26%) Hibernate
6 3 (5.26%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.51%) Bootstrap
7 2 (3.51%) DOM
7 2 (3.51%) Express.js
7 2 (3.51%) lodash
7 2 (3.51%) MEAN Stack
7 2 (3.51%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 5 (8.77%) Distributed Applications
3 5 (8.77%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.75%) EPoS
5 1 (1.75%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.75%) NHS
5 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) Windows
2 1 (1.75%) Android
2 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.11%) CI/CD
2 21 (36.84%) Agile
2 21 (36.84%) Microservices
3 19 (33.33%) DevOps
4 15 (26.32%) Test Automation
5 13 (22.81%) Scrum
6 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (21.05%) Test Strategy
7 9 (15.79%) ETL
7 9 (15.79%) Software Testing
7 9 (15.79%) Sprint Planning
7 9 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (14.04%) End-to-End Testing
8 8 (14.04%) Migration
8 8 (14.04%) Test Scripting
9 7 (12.28%) Manual Testing
9 7 (12.28%) Project Management
9 7 (12.28%) Test Management
9 7 (12.28%) User Stories
10 6 (10.53%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.30%) Java
2 7 (12.28%) SQL
3 6 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 6 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 3 (5.26%) Python
5 1 (1.75%) C#
5 1 (1.75%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.77%) Degree
2 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) ISTQB
4 3 (5.26%) CISSP
4 3 (5.26%) PMP
5 2 (3.51%) CISM
5 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (8.77%) WCAG
3 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.51%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
3 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 2 (3.51%) ISO17020
3 2 (3.51%) PMO
4 1 (1.75%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.04%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.02%) Grafana
3 2 (3.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) Google
2 8 (14.04%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.53%) SAP
4 4 (7.02%) Splunk
5 2 (3.51%) BeyondTrust
5 2 (3.51%) CyberArk
5 2 (3.51%) Thycotic
6 1 (1.75%) Databricks
6 1 (1.75%) ESRI
6 1 (1.75%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.75%) MarketAxess
6 1 (1.75%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle
6 1 (1.75%) Tradeweb