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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 63 42
Rank change year-on-year -8 -21 +48
Contract jobs citing QA 62 19 70
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.21% 1.92% 3.95%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.33% 17.59% 24.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 10 48
10th Percentile £290 £263 £334
25th Percentile £350 £353 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £398 £428
Median % change year-on-year +13.96% -7.02% -16.59%
75th Percentile £560 £522 £541
90th Percentile £659 £552 £715
England median daily rate £500 £489 £525
% change year-on-year +2.25% -6.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £12.82 - -
25th Percentile £13.73 - -
Median hourly rate £15.50 - £10.86
75th Percentile £15.75 - -
90th Percentile - - £12.07
England median hourly rate £31.49 £21.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +46.47% -14.00% -

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 305 108 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.80% 10.90% 15.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 71 170
10th Percentile £304 £143 £274
25th Percentile £385 £288 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £456
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.37% -8.75%
75th Percentile £569 £556 £575
90th Percentile £653 £700 £639
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 7
10th Percentile £13.43 - -
25th Percentile £15.25 - -
Median hourly rate £15.50 - £10.86
Median % change year-on-year - - -49.49%
75th Percentile £19.99 - £11.94
90th Percentile £27.11 - £14.49
England median hourly rate £25.46 £30.11 £32.11
% change year-on-year -15.43% -6.23% +28.42%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 January 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 20 January 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 -31 30 £369 -34.49% 22
West Yorkshire -3 27 £595 +58.67% 45
North Yorkshire +3 4 £315 - 14
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 5 (8.06%) Mule
2 4 (6.45%) Confluence
3 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.61%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.61%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (8.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (37.10%) Azure
2 21 (33.87%) AWS
3 16 (25.81%) GCP
4 6 (9.68%) GitHub
5 5 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (8.06%) SaaS
6 4 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (4.84%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.84%) Serverless
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.23%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (3.23%) npm
9 1 (1.61%) Apigee
9 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.61%) Kong
9 1 (1.61%) OCI
9 1 (1.61%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) Internet
2 1 (1.61%) DNS
2 1 (1.61%) Firewall
2 1 (1.61%) HTTP
2 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) MongoDB
1 5 (8.06%) MySQL
1 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.84%) Neo4j
3 2 (3.23%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.23%) Cloud Spanner
3 2 (3.23%) DocumentDB
3 2 (3.23%) GIS
3 2 (3.23%) Redis
4 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (33.87%) Jenkins
2 19 (30.65%) JIRA
3 14 (22.58%) GitLab
4 11 (17.74%) Cucumber
5 10 (16.13%) Postman
6 9 (14.52%) Selenium
7 8 (12.90%) Git
8 6 (9.68%) TestRail
9 5 (8.06%) Cypress.io
9 5 (8.06%) REST Assured
9 5 (8.06%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (6.45%) JMeter
10 4 (6.45%) SonarQube
11 3 (4.84%) Gatling
11 3 (4.84%) JUnit
11 3 (4.84%) LoadRunner
11 3 (4.84%) NeoLoad
11 3 (4.84%) TestNG
12 2 (3.23%) Babel
12 2 (3.23%) webpack
General
1 34 (54.84%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.74%) Finance
3 9 (14.52%) Banking
4 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.29%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Legal
6 3 (4.84%) Military
7 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Front Office
8 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (17.74%) Lead
1 11 (17.74%) Project Manager
1 11 (17.74%) Test Engineer
2 9 (14.52%) Senior
3 7 (11.29%) QA Engineer
4 6 (9.68%) SAP Manager
4 6 (9.68%) SAP Project Manager
4 6 (9.68%) Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Consultant
5 5 (8.06%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Build Manager
6 4 (6.45%) Service Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (4.84%) IT Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Java Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Project Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Software Manager
8 2 (3.23%) AWS Software Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.13%) REST
2 8 (12.90%) LDAP
2 8 (12.90%) OpenID
2 8 (12.90%) SailPoint
3 7 (11.29%) Playwright
4 6 (9.68%) Node.js
4 6 (9.68%) React
5 5 (8.06%) .NET
5 5 (8.06%) RESTful
5 5 (8.06%) Spring
6 3 (4.84%) Hibernate
7 2 (3.23%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.23%) Bootstrap
7 2 (3.23%) CSS
7 2 (3.23%) CSS3
7 2 (3.23%) DOM
7 2 (3.23%) HTML
7 2 (3.23%) HTML5
7 2 (3.23%) JSON
7 2 (3.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.68%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (9.68%) Onboarding
1 6 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.06%) Distributed Applications
2 5 (8.06%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.84%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.61%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.61%) NHS
4 1 (1.61%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.61%) SCADA
4 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 26 (41.94%) DevOps
3 21 (33.87%) Agile
3 21 (33.87%) Test Automation
4 20 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (24.19%) Microservices
6 14 (22.58%) Project Management
7 13 (20.97%) Business Case
7 13 (20.97%) Test Scripting
8 12 (19.35%) ETL
8 12 (19.35%) Test Strategy
9 11 (17.74%) BDD
9 11 (17.74%) Manual Testing
10 10 (16.13%) User Acceptance Testing
10 10 (16.13%) Validation
11 9 (14.52%) Project Delivery
11 9 (14.52%) Scrum
11 9 (14.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (12.90%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 18 (29.03%) Java
2 11 (17.74%) Python
3 10 (16.13%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.90%) TypeScript
5 7 (11.29%) SQL
6 5 (8.06%) PHP
7 3 (4.84%) Cypher
7 3 (4.84%) Scala
8 1 (1.61%) Bash
8 1 (1.61%) C#
8 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (9.68%) PMP
1 6 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.06%) Degree
3 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.23%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.84%) PMO
3 3 (4.84%) WCAG
4 2 (3.23%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.23%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
4 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 2 (3.23%) ISO17020
5 1 (1.61%) NCSC
5 1 (1.61%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (4.84%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 2 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (11.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.68%) Grafana
3 1 (1.61%) Ansible
3 1 (1.61%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (1.61%) Kibana
3 1 (1.61%) logstash
3 1 (1.61%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.61%) Puppet
3 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (19.35%) SAP
2 9 (14.52%) Google
3 8 (12.90%) ServiceNow
4 6 (9.68%) Splunk
5 4 (6.45%) ESRI
5 4 (6.45%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.23%) Databricks
7 1 (1.61%) MarketAxess
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle
7 1 (1.61%) Planview
7 1 (1.61%) Tradeweb