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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 55 42
Rank change year-on-year -35 -13 +10
Contract jobs citing QA 64 44 75
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.35% 3.79% 4.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.34% 24.44% 36.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 40 49
10th Percentile £350 £279 £301
25th Percentile £450 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.50% +4.76%
75th Percentile £596 £561 £600
90th Percentile £678 £578 £646
England median daily rate £481 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +1.32% -6.77% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.02 - £10.86
Median hourly rate £34.23 - £11.88
75th Percentile £36.61 - -
90th Percentile - - £12.08
England median hourly rate £30.58 £50.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year -38.84% +257.14% -37.78%

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 369 180 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.57% 15.49% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 117 116
10th Percentile £342 £235 £263
25th Percentile £425 £313 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £503
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.47% -2.80%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £588
90th Percentile £684 £600 £648
England median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.25% -4.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 12
10th Percentile £17.05 - -
25th Percentile £22.10 - £10.86
Median hourly rate £32.40 £22.14 £11.88
Median % change year-on-year +46.32% +86.36% -43.43%
75th Percentile £36.61 - £12.13
90th Percentile - £32.95 £17.73
England median hourly rate £33.98 £32.81 £24.09
% change year-on-year +3.57% +36.20% -43.32%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -33 35 £513 -1.42% 34
West Yorkshire -23 25 £565 +11.60% 34
North Yorkshire - 4 £550 - 23
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 8 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.56%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (1.56%) SAP FI-AP
2 1 (1.56%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 14 (21.88%) Azure
2 6 (9.38%) AWS
3 3 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.69%) BrowserStack
3 3 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (4.69%) Entra ID
3 3 (4.69%) GCP
3 3 (4.69%) GitHub
3 3 (4.69%) OpenShift
3 3 (4.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.69%) Neo4j
1 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.13%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.13%) Oracle Database 12c
2 2 (3.13%) Power BI
3 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.56%) GIS
3 1 (1.56%) Metadata
3 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (25.00%) JIRA
2 8 (12.50%) Selenium
3 7 (10.94%) Jenkins
4 6 (9.38%) Gatling
4 6 (9.38%) Git
4 6 (9.38%) GitLab
4 6 (9.38%) JMeter
5 4 (6.25%) Cucumber
5 4 (6.25%) Cypress.io
5 4 (6.25%) JUnit
5 4 (6.25%) Postman
5 4 (6.25%) TestNG
6 3 (4.69%) LoadRunner
6 3 (4.69%) NeoLoad
7 2 (3.13%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.56%) Appium
8 1 (1.56%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.56%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (1.56%) Subversion
8 1 (1.56%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (23.44%) Finance
2 13 (20.31%) Public Sector
3 12 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.81%) Aerospace
5 5 (7.81%) Banking
5 5 (7.81%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.13%) Law
7 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Local Government
7 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Retail
7 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (26.56%) QA Engineer
2 13 (20.31%) Lead
3 10 (15.63%) Quality Engineer
4 8 (12.50%) Analyst
4 8 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 8 (12.50%) Project Manager
5 5 (7.81%) QA Leader
5 5 (7.81%) Tester
6 4 (6.25%) QA Tester
6 4 (6.25%) SAP Manager
6 4 (6.25%) SAP Project Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Senior
7 3 (4.69%) Technical Leader
7 3 (4.69%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) QA Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) QC Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.50%) REST
2 4 (6.25%) Playwright
3 3 (4.69%) .NET
3 3 (4.69%) ASP.NET
3 3 (4.69%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (4.69%) LDAP
3 3 (4.69%) OpenID
3 3 (4.69%) React
3 3 (4.69%) RESTful
3 3 (4.69%) SailPoint
4 2 (3.13%) Kafka
4 2 (3.13%) Next.js
4 2 (3.13%) pytest
5 1 (1.56%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.56%) CSS
5 1 (1.56%) CSS3
5 1 (1.56%) HTML
5 1 (1.56%) HTML5
5 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.56%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Cloud Native
1 5 (7.81%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.13%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.56%) IoT
4 1 (1.56%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.56%) NHS
4 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Mac OS
2 2 (3.13%) Linux
2 2 (3.13%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.56%) Android
3 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.25%) DevOps
2 16 (25.00%) Agile
2 16 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 14 (21.88%) CI/CD
4 10 (15.63%) Project Management
4 10 (15.63%) Validation
5 9 (14.06%) Test Strategy
6 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 8 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (10.94%) Business Case
7 7 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (10.94%) Project Delivery
7 7 (10.94%) Software Delivery
7 7 (10.94%) User Stories
8 6 (9.38%) Scenario Testing
9 5 (7.81%) Analytical Thinking
9 5 (7.81%) Budget Management
9 5 (7.81%) Commercial Awareness
9 5 (7.81%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.94%) Python
1 7 (10.94%) Scala
2 5 (7.81%) Java
2 5 (7.81%) JavaScript
2 5 (7.81%) SQL
2 5 (7.81%) TypeScript
3 3 (4.69%) C#
3 3 (4.69%) Cypher
4 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) PMP
4 3 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.69%) Degree
5 2 (3.13%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (7.81%) Docker
2 3 (4.69%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.13%) Ansible
2 2 (3.13%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (3.13%) Terraform
3 1 (1.56%) Grafana
3 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (9.38%) SAP
2 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.81%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.69%) Sitecore
4 2 (3.13%) Google
4 2 (3.13%) Oracle
4 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.13%) Splunk
5 1 (1.56%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.56%) Databricks
5 1 (1.56%) ESRI
5 1 (1.56%) IBM
5 1 (1.56%) New Relic
5 1 (1.56%) OpenText
5 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.56%) Workday