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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 52 49
Rank change year-on-year -23 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing QA 79 54 70
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.77% 4.01% 4.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.27% 24.00% 33.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 46 51
10th Percentile £371 £297 £310
25th Percentile £453 £453 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £516 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.63% -6.16% +8.16%
75th Percentile £618 £547 £597
90th Percentile £683 £575 £638
England median daily rate £485 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 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 £31.46 £15.96 £14.00
% change year-on-year +97.12% +14.00% -66.93%

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 410 225 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.38% 16.70% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 153 126
10th Percentile £350 £240 £263
25th Percentile £425 £345 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.63%
75th Percentile £586 £550 £583
90th Percentile £675 £600 £648
England median daily rate £505 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.31% -2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 6
10th Percentile £18.14 - -
25th Percentile £22.05 - -
Median hourly rate £32.40 £22.14 £11.88
Median % change year-on-year +46.32% +86.36% -43.43%
75th Percentile £36.61 - £16.67
90th Percentile - £29.35 £33.51
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.76 £25.00
% change year-on-year +13.57% +27.04% -41.18%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -23 44 £514 -1.11% 19
West Yorkshire -25 27 £565 +11.60% 23
North Yorkshire - 8 £550 - 3
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 13 (16.46%) Confluence
2 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.27%) Navisworks
1 1 (1.27%) ProjectWise
1 1 (1.27%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (5.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (1.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (1.27%) SAP FI-AP
2 1 (1.27%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 18 (22.78%) Azure
2 10 (12.66%) AWS
3 6 (7.59%) GitHub
4 4 (5.06%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.80%) BrowserStack
5 3 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.80%) GCP
5 3 (3.80%) OpenShift
5 3 (3.80%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.59%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.80%) Neo4j
3 2 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (2.53%) Power BI
4 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.27%) Db2
4 1 (1.27%) GIS
4 1 (1.27%) Metadata
4 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (27.85%) JIRA
2 11 (13.92%) Jenkins
3 9 (11.39%) Selenium
4 7 (8.86%) Git
5 6 (7.59%) Gatling
5 6 (7.59%) GitLab
5 6 (7.59%) JMeter
6 5 (6.33%) Postman
7 4 (5.06%) Cucumber
7 4 (5.06%) Cypress.io
7 4 (5.06%) JUnit
7 4 (5.06%) TestNG
8 3 (3.80%) LoadRunner
8 3 (3.80%) NeoLoad
9 2 (2.53%) Robot Framework
9 2 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.27%) Appium
10 1 (1.27%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.27%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (1.27%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (21.52%) Finance
2 15 (18.99%) Public Sector
3 13 (16.46%) Social Skills
4 8 (10.13%) Banking
5 7 (8.86%) Aerospace
5 7 (8.86%) Manufacturing
6 6 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.53%) Law
8 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Local Government
8 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Retail
8 1 (1.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (29.11%) QA Engineer
2 17 (21.52%) Lead
3 13 (16.46%) Quality Engineer
4 8 (10.13%) Analyst
4 8 (10.13%) Business Analyst
4 8 (10.13%) QA Leader
5 6 (7.59%) Project Manager
5 6 (7.59%) Tester
6 5 (6.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) QA Tester
6 5 (6.33%) Senior
7 4 (5.06%) Architect
7 4 (5.06%) SAP Manager
7 4 (5.06%) SAP Project Manager
8 3 (3.80%) .NET Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Consultant
8 3 (3.80%) Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Test Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.92%) REST
2 7 (8.86%) .NET
3 6 (7.59%) ASP.NET
3 6 (7.59%) SailPoint
4 5 (6.33%) Playwright
5 4 (5.06%) .NET Core
6 3 (3.80%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.80%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (3.80%) LDAP
6 3 (3.80%) OpenID
6 3 (3.80%) React
6 3 (3.80%) RESTful
6 3 (3.80%) Web Services
7 2 (2.53%) JSON
7 2 (2.53%) Kafka
7 2 (2.53%) Next.js
7 2 (2.53%) pytest
8 1 (1.27%) HTML5
8 1 (1.27%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.27%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.59%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.33%) AI Agents
2 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.06%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.27%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.27%) IoT
5 1 (1.27%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.27%) NHS
5 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.06%) Mac OS
2 2 (2.53%) Linux
2 2 (2.53%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.27%) Android
3 1 (1.27%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.27%) Windows
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.38%) Test Automation
2 21 (26.58%) DevOps
3 20 (25.32%) Agile
4 17 (21.52%) CI/CD
5 12 (15.19%) Validation
6 10 (12.66%) Test Strategy
7 9 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (10.13%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (10.13%) Project Management
8 8 (10.13%) Software Delivery
8 8 (10.13%) Software Engineering
8 8 (10.13%) User Stories
9 7 (8.86%) Decision-Making
9 7 (8.86%) Performance Testing
9 7 (8.86%) Project Delivery
9 7 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (7.59%) AI
10 6 (7.59%) API Testing
10 6 (7.59%) Scenario Testing
11 5 (6.33%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.39%) SQL
2 7 (8.86%) Python
2 7 (8.86%) Scala
3 5 (6.33%) Java
3 5 (6.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.33%) TypeScript
4 4 (5.06%) C#
5 3 (3.80%) Cypher
6 2 (2.53%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.27%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (13.92%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.13%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) ISTQB
3 4 (5.06%) PMP
4 3 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.80%) Degree
5 2 (2.53%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (2.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.27%) GRC
2 1 (1.27%) ISO 19650
2 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.27%) SLA
2 1 (1.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (10.13%) Docker
2 4 (5.06%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.80%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (1.27%) ACF2
4 1 (1.27%) RACF
4 1 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (10.13%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.33%) Ansible
3 2 (2.53%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (2.53%) Terraform
4 1 (1.27%) Grafana
4 1 (1.27%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.27%) SCCM
4 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.59%) SAP
2 6 (7.59%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.06%) CyberArk
4 3 (3.80%) Centrify
4 3 (3.80%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.53%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.53%) Google
5 2 (2.53%) IBM
5 2 (2.53%) Oracle
5 2 (2.53%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.53%) Splunk
6 1 (1.27%) Apple
6 1 (1.27%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.27%) Citrix
6 1 (1.27%) ESRI
6 1 (1.27%) New Relic
6 1 (1.27%) OpenText
6 1 (1.27%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.27%) Workday