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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 70 46
Rank change year-on-year +17 -24 -6
Contract jobs citing QA 112 57 55
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.94% 3.42% 3.72%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.23% 21.19% 33.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 44 39
10th Percentile £350 £280 £263
25th Percentile £413 £349 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £460 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -16.36% +13.75%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £585
90th Percentile £656 £538 £628
England median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.02 - -
Median hourly rate £36.07 £12.21 £11.88
Median % change year-on-year +195.41% +2.78% -44.74%
75th Percentile £36.61 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £27.98 £15.96 £15.00
% change year-on-year +75.31% +6.40% -70.00%

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 444 269 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.62% 16.16% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 184 104
10th Percentile £362 £237 £250
25th Percentile £413 £343 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £581
90th Percentile £644 £600 £645
England median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.55% -2.44% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 11 5
10th Percentile £15.39 - -
25th Percentile £18.72 £17.48 -
Median hourly rate £32.40 £22.14 £11.88
Median % change year-on-year +46.32% +86.36% -42.05%
75th Percentile £36.61 - -
90th Percentile - - £34.00
England median hourly rate £31.73 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -2.37% -7.14% -4.76%

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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

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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 10 October 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 10 October 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 +5 56 £494 +9.72% 38
West Yorkshire -5 45 £450 -5.26% 100
North Yorkshire - 8 £550 - 11
East Yorkshire -3 1 £500 +73.91% 4
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 (18.75%) Confluence
2 4 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.79%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.89%) CMS
4 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.89%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.79%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.89%) Navisworks
3 1 (0.89%) ProjectWise
3 1 (0.89%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 28 (25.00%) Azure
2 19 (16.96%) AWS
3 12 (10.71%) GitHub
4 9 (8.04%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.57%) Azure AKS
5 4 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (3.57%) GCP
6 3 (2.68%) BrowserStack
6 3 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.68%) IaaS
6 3 (2.68%) PaaS
7 2 (1.79%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.79%) Google Data Studio
7 2 (1.79%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.89%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.89%) Azure Databricks
8 1 (0.89%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.89%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.89%) Figma
8 1 (0.89%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) Firewall
2 1 (0.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.04%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.79%) Db2
2 2 (1.79%) Delta Lake
2 2 (1.79%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.79%) Power Query
3 1 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.89%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.89%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.89%) Power BI
3 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (23.21%) JIRA
2 13 (11.61%) Git
3 7 (6.25%) Selenium
4 6 (5.36%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.46%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.46%) Cypress.io
5 5 (4.46%) JUnit
6 4 (3.57%) TestNG
7 3 (2.68%) Gatling
7 3 (2.68%) Postman
7 3 (2.68%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.68%) Zephyr
8 2 (1.79%) Appium
8 2 (1.79%) GitLab
8 2 (1.79%) JMeter
8 2 (1.79%) Tricentis qTest
9 1 (0.89%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.89%) Mockito
9 1 (0.89%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.89%) WebDriver
General
1 34 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.18%) Finance
3 15 (13.39%) Public Sector
4 14 (12.50%) Aerospace
4 14 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 9 (8.04%) Banking
6 8 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.57%) Law
7 4 (3.57%) Retail
7 4 (3.57%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Local Government
9 1 (0.89%) Military
9 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (31.25%) QA Engineer
2 28 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
3 16 (14.29%) Developer
3 16 (14.29%) Senior
4 14 (12.50%) Lead
5 13 (11.61%) Analyst
6 7 (6.25%) QA Leader
6 7 (6.25%) Tester
7 6 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Business Analyst
7 6 (5.36%) QA Tester
8 5 (4.46%) .NET Developer
8 5 (4.46%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (4.46%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (3.57%) Architect
9 4 (3.57%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.57%) Senior Developer
10 3 (2.68%) Consultant
10 3 (2.68%) Data Engineer
10 3 (2.68%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (16.96%) REST
2 13 (11.61%) .NET
3 11 (9.82%) ASP.NET
4 9 (8.04%) .NET Core
4 9 (8.04%) React
5 6 (5.36%) AngularJS
5 6 (5.36%) Playwright
5 6 (5.36%) RESTful
5 6 (5.36%) SailPoint
5 6 (5.36%) Web Services
6 5 (4.46%) JSON
6 5 (4.46%) Kafka
6 5 (4.46%) Spring
6 5 (4.46%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.46%) Terraform
7 4 (3.57%) OpenAPI
7 4 (3.57%) Swagger
8 3 (2.68%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (2.68%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (2.68%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.04%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.36%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.79%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.79%) Replication
5 1 (0.89%) Blog
5 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.89%) FMCG
5 1 (0.89%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.89%) NHS
5 1 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.57%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.89%) Android
2 1 (0.89%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.89%) Windows
2 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (35.71%) Test Automation
2 36 (32.14%) Agile
3 30 (26.79%) CI/CD
4 25 (22.32%) DevOps
5 24 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (15.18%) AI
8 13 (11.61%) Software Delivery
9 12 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (9.82%) Software Engineering
10 11 (9.82%) Test Strategy
11 10 (8.93%) SDLC
11 10 (8.93%) Workshop Facilitation
12 9 (8.04%) Decision-Making
12 9 (8.04%) User Acceptance Testing
13 8 (7.14%) Analytics
13 8 (7.14%) ITSM
13 8 (7.14%) Observability
13 8 (7.14%) RBAC
13 8 (7.14%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.71%) Java
2 10 (8.93%) SQL
3 9 (8.04%) C#
3 9 (8.04%) JavaScript
4 8 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.46%) Python
5 5 (4.46%) Scala
6 1 (0.89%) Bicep
6 1 (0.89%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.61%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.57%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.68%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.68%) Degree
5 3 (2.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (1.79%) IIBA
7 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.68%) GDPR
3 3 (2.68%) GRC
3 3 (2.68%) ISO 14001
3 3 (2.68%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (1.79%) PMO
4 2 (1.79%) SLA
4 2 (1.79%) WCAG
5 1 (0.89%) COSHH
5 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.89%) HL7
5 1 (0.89%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 9 (8.04%) Docker
2 7 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.79%) ACF2
3 2 (1.79%) RACF
4 1 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.46%) Ansible
3 1 (0.89%) Grafana
3 1 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.89%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.89%) SCCM
3 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.36%) CyberArk
4 5 (4.46%) Centrify
5 4 (3.57%) Sitecore
6 3 (2.68%) Databricks
6 3 (2.68%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.68%) Fujitsu
6 3 (2.68%) IBM
7 2 (1.79%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.79%) Foundry
7 2 (1.79%) Google
7 2 (1.79%) Palantir
7 2 (1.79%) Splunk
8 1 (0.89%) Apple
8 1 (0.89%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.89%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (0.89%) Citrix
8 1 (0.89%) New Relic
8 1 (0.89%) Okta