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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 62 31
Rank change year-on-year -9 -31 +60
Contract jobs citing QA 57 37 90
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.18% 2.68% 4.83%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.66% 26.06% 27.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 21 54
10th Percentile £280 £263 £343
25th Percentile £338 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £538
90th Percentile £539 £600 £600
England median daily rate £492 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +3.63% -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 £16.24 £13.26 £50.00
% change year-on-year +22.47% -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 290 142 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.16% 10.27% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 87 181
10th Percentile £266 £214 £227
25th Percentile £356 £359 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £609 £643 £615
England median daily rate £500 £510 £540
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.56% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 3
10th Percentile £15.25 - £15.91
25th Percentile £17.48 - £16.79
Median hourly rate £22.14 £11.88 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +86.36% -42.05% +2.83%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - £22.65
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.06 £40.50
% change year-on-year -6.43% -20.84% +55.77%

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 6 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

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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 6 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 -5 32 £500 +8.11% 47
South Yorkshire -18 20 £358 -42.44% 12
North Yorkshire +8 4 £315 - 8
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 19 (33.33%) AWS
2 13 (22.81%) Azure
3 11 (19.30%) GCP
4 5 (8.77%) GitHub
4 5 (8.77%) Serverless
5 4 (7.02%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.51%) npm
7 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.75%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (1.75%) Contentsquare
8 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.75%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.75%) Google Tag Manager
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%) DocumentDB
4 3 (5.26%) Redis
5 2 (3.51%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.51%) MySQL
5 2 (3.51%) Power BI
6 1 (1.75%) Cloud Spanner
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%) Jenkins
1 17 (29.82%) JIRA
2 11 (19.30%) Git
3 10 (17.54%) GitLab
4 7 (12.28%) Cucumber
4 7 (12.28%) SonarQube
4 7 (12.28%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (10.53%) Cypress.io
5 6 (10.53%) Postman
5 6 (10.53%) Selenium
6 5 (8.77%) TestNG
7 3 (5.26%) JMeter
7 3 (5.26%) JUnit
8 2 (3.51%) Artifactory
8 2 (3.51%) Babel
8 2 (3.51%) Maven
8 2 (3.51%) SoapUI
8 2 (3.51%) TestRail
8 2 (3.51%) webpack
8 2 (3.51%) Zephyr
General
1 22 (38.60%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.05%) Banking
3 9 (15.79%) 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%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (17.54%) Senior
2 8 (14.04%) Test Engineer
3 7 (12.28%) Lead
4 6 (10.53%) Developer
4 6 (10.53%) QA Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) Service Manager
6 4 (7.02%) Test Manager
7 3 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) AWS Software Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Consultant
7 3 (5.26%) Java Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Node.js Developer
7 3 (5.26%) Project Manager
7 3 (5.26%) SAP Manager
7 3 (5.26%) SAP Project Manager
7 3 (5.26%) Senior Manager
7 3 (5.26%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.30%) Node.js
2 8 (14.04%) RESTful
3 7 (12.28%) React
4 6 (10.53%) Playwright
5 5 (8.77%) Spring
6 4 (7.02%) CSS
6 4 (7.02%) CSS3
6 4 (7.02%) HTML
6 4 (7.02%) HTML5
6 4 (7.02%) Kafka
6 4 (7.02%) REST
7 3 (5.26%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.26%) Hibernate
8 2 (3.51%) Bootstrap
8 2 (3.51%) DOM
8 2 (3.51%) Express.js
8 2 (3.51%) lodash
8 2 (3.51%) pytest
8 2 (3.51%) Sass
8 2 (3.51%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) 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%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.75%) EPoS
5 1 (1.75%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
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 26 (45.61%) CI/CD
2 21 (36.84%) Agile
3 20 (35.09%) Microservices
4 18 (31.58%) Test Automation
5 17 (29.82%) DevOps
6 13 (22.81%) Scrum
6 13 (22.81%) Test Strategy
7 10 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (15.79%) Software Testing
8 9 (15.79%) Sprint Planning
8 9 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (14.04%) BDD
9 8 (14.04%) End-to-End Testing
9 8 (14.04%) ETL
9 8 (14.04%) Manual Testing
9 8 (14.04%) Test Scripting
10 7 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (12.28%) Functional Testing
10 7 (12.28%) Test Management
10 7 (12.28%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.05%) Java
2 7 (12.28%) JavaScript
2 7 (12.28%) SQL
3 6 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 5 (8.77%) Python
5 1 (1.75%) C#
5 1 (1.75%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.77%) Degree
4 4 (7.02%) ISTQB
5 3 (5.26%) CISSP
5 3 (5.26%) PMP
6 2 (3.51%) CISM
6 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.79%) Accessibility
2 7 (12.28%) WCAG
3 4 (7.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.51%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
4 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 2 (3.51%) ISO17020
4 2 (3.51%) PMO
5 1 (1.75%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 5 (8.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.04%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.02%) Grafana
3 2 (3.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (15.79%) Google
2 8 (14.04%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.77%) 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%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.75%) MarketAxess
6 1 (1.75%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.75%) Tradeweb