QA Contracts in Yorkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 45 48
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 +43
Contract jobs citing QA 50 71 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.85% 4.12% 3.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.81% 34.30% 25.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 51 36
10th Percentile £288 £310 £394
25th Percentile £456 £406 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +7.26% +13.94%
75th Percentile £553 £597 £550
90th Percentile £575 £638 £588
England median daily rate £475 £500 £517
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.29% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £11.27 -
25th Percentile - - £20.75
Median hourly rate - £11.88 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - -44.74% -
75th Percentile - - £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £15.96 £14.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year +14.00% -59.42% +6.15%

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 210 207 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.18% 12.01% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 124 149
10th Percentile £235 £263 £263
25th Percentile £313 £374 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +15.91%
75th Percentile £538 £585 £588
90th Percentile £600 £649 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 8
10th Percentile - £10.96 £13.16
25th Percentile - £11.66 £16.58
Median hourly rate £22.14 £11.88 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.36% -43.43% +12.30%
75th Percentile - £13.48 £49.08
90th Percentile £31.75 £27.41 £50.22
England median hourly rate £32.00 £24.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year +32.34% -43.11% +63.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for QA in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for QA in Yorkshire

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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 4 July 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 -10 25 £506 -2.08% 196
South Yorkshire +3 23 £520 -16.84% 86
East Yorkshire - 1 £288 - 29
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.00%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.00%) AWS
2 10 (20.00%) Azure
3 6 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (12.00%) GitHub
4 5 (10.00%) GCP
5 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.00%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.00%) Bloomreach
6 1 (2.00%) CloudBees
6 1 (2.00%) Contentsquare
6 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.00%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.00%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.00%) Data Mining
3 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.00%) GIS
3 2 (4.00%) MySQL
3 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.00%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (2.00%) Looker
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.00%) Power BI
4 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (42.00%) JIRA
2 18 (36.00%) Selenium
3 12 (24.00%) Git
3 12 (24.00%) Postman
4 11 (22.00%) Maven
5 9 (18.00%) IntelliJ
5 9 (18.00%) Jenkins
6 6 (12.00%) Cucumber
7 5 (10.00%) TestRail
8 4 (8.00%) Cypress.io
8 4 (8.00%) GitLab
8 4 (8.00%) Gradle
8 4 (8.00%) HP UFT
8 4 (8.00%) JUnit
9 3 (6.00%) SoapUI
10 2 (4.00%) Artifactory
10 2 (4.00%) JMeter
10 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
10 2 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (4.00%) TestNG
General
1 10 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Banking
3 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Finance
4 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.00%) Local Government
5 1 (2.00%) Marketing
5 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Tester
2 7 (14.00%) Senior
2 7 (14.00%) Test Manager
3 5 (10.00%) Analyst
3 5 (10.00%) Automation Tester
3 5 (10.00%) Developer
3 5 (10.00%) QA Tester
4 4 (8.00%) Lead
4 4 (8.00%) QA Analyst
4 4 (8.00%) Test Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Manual Tester
5 3 (6.00%) QA Manual Tester
6 2 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (4.00%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Desktop Support
6 2 (4.00%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.00%) SAP Project Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) Playwright
1 3 (6.00%) pytest
2 2 (4.00%) Node.js
2 2 (4.00%) RESTful
2 2 (4.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.00%) Apache CXF
3 1 (2.00%) Dropwizard
3 1 (2.00%) JAX-RS
3 1 (2.00%) Kafka
3 1 (2.00%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (2.00%) Nightwatchjs
3 1 (2.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.00%) NHS
3 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.00%) EPoS
3 1 (2.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.00%) Replication
3 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.00%) Windows
2 3 (6.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.00%) Linux
4 1 (2.00%) Android
4 1 (2.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (52.00%) Test Automation
2 16 (32.00%) DevOps
3 15 (30.00%) Test Strategy
4 13 (26.00%) Agile
5 11 (22.00%) API Testing
5 11 (22.00%) CI/CD
6 10 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (18.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 9 (18.00%) Manual Testing
7 9 (18.00%) TDD
8 8 (16.00%) Code Quality
8 8 (16.00%) Migration
8 8 (16.00%) Project Management
8 8 (16.00%) Software Testing
9 7 (14.00%) Analytics
9 7 (14.00%) BDD
9 7 (14.00%) Non-Functional Testing
10 6 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (12.00%) QA Automation
10 6 (12.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.00%) Java
2 11 (22.00%) SQL
3 6 (12.00%) Python
4 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.00%) Bash
5 2 (4.00%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.00%) JCL
6 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.00%) REXX
6 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (24.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.00%) CISSP
2 2 (4.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (4.00%) PMP
3 1 (2.00%) CISM
3 1 (2.00%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.00%) WCAG
3 1 (2.00%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.00%) Ansible
2 1 (2.00%) Control-M
2 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.00%) Apple
2 2 (4.00%) Citrix
2 2 (4.00%) Google
2 2 (4.00%) SAP
3 1 (2.00%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (2.00%) BMC
3 1 (2.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.00%) Hotjar
3 1 (2.00%) IBM
3 1 (2.00%) Optimizely
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle
3 1 (2.00%) Thycotic