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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 51 51
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -3
Contract jobs citing QA 101 62 55
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.51% 4.08% 3.61%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.27% 24.03% 30.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 53 40
10th Percentile £351 £286 £263
25th Percentile £423 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% -9.09% +8.16%
75th Percentile £575 £530 £587
90th Percentile £675 £575 £638
England median daily rate £481 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.26% -2.66% -7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.02 - -
Median hourly rate £36.07 - £11.88
75th Percentile £36.61 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £32.20 £15.96 £14.00
% change year-on-year +101.74% +14.00% -70.53%

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 434 258 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.07% 16.96% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 173 109
10th Percentile £350 £235 £263
25th Percentile £413 £319 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £517
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.96% +1.67%
75th Percentile £565 £538 £594
90th Percentile £638 £600 £650
England median daily rate £508 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.65% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 15 6
10th Percentile £18.72 £17.48 -
25th Percentile £24.65 - -
Median hourly rate £32.40 £22.14 £11.88
Median % change year-on-year +46.32% +86.36% -42.05%
75th Percentile £36.61 - £16.67
90th Percentile - £23.86 £33.51
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £27.50
% change year-on-year +14.00% +15.05% -21.43%

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 22 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Yorkshire

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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 22 August 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 +1 57 £513 +2.50% 6
West Yorkshire -20 35 £463 -7.50% 30
North Yorkshire - 8 £550 - 10
East Yorkshire -4 1 £500 +73.91%
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 21 (20.79%) Confluence
2 2 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.98%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.99%) Navisworks
3 1 (0.99%) ProjectWise
3 1 (0.99%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.99%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 1 (0.99%) SAP FI-AP
1 1 (0.99%) SAP Retail
1 1 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (20.79%) Azure
2 14 (13.86%) AWS
3 8 (7.92%) GitHub
4 4 (3.96%) GCP
4 4 (3.96%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.97%) BrowserStack
5 3 (2.97%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.98%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.98%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.99%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.92%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.97%) Power BI
3 2 (1.98%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.98%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.98%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (1.98%) Power Query
4 1 (0.99%) Db2
4 1 (0.99%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.99%) Metadata
4 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (27.72%) JIRA
2 9 (8.91%) Git
2 9 (8.91%) Selenium
3 8 (7.92%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.95%) Cucumber
4 5 (4.95%) Cypress.io
4 5 (4.95%) JUnit
5 4 (3.96%) TestNG
6 3 (2.97%) Gatling
6 3 (2.97%) Postman
6 3 (2.97%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.97%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.98%) GitLab
7 2 (1.98%) JMeter
7 2 (1.98%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.98%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.99%) Mockito
8 1 (0.99%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.99%) Subversion
8 1 (0.99%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (18.81%) Public Sector
2 18 (17.82%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.85%) Finance
4 14 (13.86%) Aerospace
4 14 (13.86%) Manufacturing
5 8 (7.92%) Banking
6 6 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.96%) Retail
7 4 (3.96%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.97%) Law
9 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Local Government
10 1 (0.99%) Military
10 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (35.64%) QA Engineer
2 25 (24.75%) Quality Engineer
3 18 (17.82%) Lead
4 13 (12.87%) Analyst
5 10 (9.90%) Business Analyst
6 9 (8.91%) QA Leader
6 9 (8.91%) Senior
7 8 (7.92%) Tester
8 7 (6.93%) Developer
9 6 (5.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) QA Tester
10 5 (4.95%) .NET Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Technical Analyst
10 5 (4.95%) Technical Business Analyst
11 3 (2.97%) Architect
11 3 (2.97%) Incident Manager
11 3 (2.97%) Major Incident Manager
11 3 (2.97%) Project Manager
11 3 (2.97%) Technical Leader
11 3 (2.97%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.86%) REST
2 10 (9.90%) .NET
3 8 (7.92%) ASP.NET
4 6 (5.94%) .NET Core
4 6 (5.94%) SailPoint
4 6 (5.94%) Web Services
5 5 (4.95%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.95%) Playwright
5 5 (4.95%) React
6 4 (3.96%) RESTful
7 3 (2.97%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (2.97%) JSON
7 3 (2.97%) Kafka
7 3 (2.97%) Next.js
8 2 (1.98%) CSS
8 2 (1.98%) CSS3
8 2 (1.98%) HTML5
8 2 (1.98%) pytest
8 2 (1.98%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.98%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.91%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.94%) AI Agents
2 6 (5.94%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.97%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.99%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.99%) NHS
5 1 (0.99%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.96%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.98%) Linux
2 2 (1.98%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.99%) Android
3 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.99%) Windows
3 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (29.70%) Agile
2 29 (28.71%) Test Automation
3 22 (21.78%) DevOps
4 19 (18.81%) CI/CD
5 17 (16.83%) Software Delivery
6 13 (12.87%) Software Engineering
7 12 (11.88%) AI
7 12 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (10.89%) User Stories
9 10 (9.90%) Validation
10 9 (8.91%) Test Strategy
11 8 (7.92%) Acceptance Criteria
11 8 (7.92%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (7.92%) Workshop Facilitation
12 7 (6.93%) Cybersecurity
12 7 (6.93%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 7 (6.93%) Performance Testing
13 6 (5.94%) Decision-Making
13 6 (5.94%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.89%) SQL
2 6 (5.94%) C#
2 6 (5.94%) JavaScript
3 4 (3.96%) Java
3 4 (3.96%) Python
3 4 (3.96%) Scala
3 4 (3.96%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.98%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.99%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (13.86%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.88%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.96%) Degree
3 4 (3.96%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.98%) IIBA
5 2 (1.98%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (1.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.99%) PMP
6 1 (0.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.93%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.97%) GRC
3 2 (1.98%) WCAG
4 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.99%) HL7
4 1 (0.99%) ISO 19650
4 1 (0.99%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (10.89%) Docker
2 7 (6.93%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.99%) ACF2
3 1 (0.99%) RACF
3 1 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (9.90%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.93%) Ansible
3 2 (1.98%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.99%) Grafana
4 1 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.99%) SCCM
4 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (10.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.94%) CyberArk
2 6 (5.94%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.95%) Centrify
4 4 (3.96%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.98%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.98%) Google
5 2 (1.98%) IBM
5 2 (1.98%) Oracle
5 2 (1.98%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.98%) SAP
5 2 (1.98%) Splunk
6 1 (0.99%) Apple
6 1 (0.99%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.99%) Citrix
6 1 (0.99%) Databricks
6 1 (0.99%) New Relic
6 1 (0.99%) Okta
6 1 (0.99%) OpenText
6 1 (0.99%) Salesforce