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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 60 51
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 -5
Contract jobs citing QA 105 56 56
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.65% 3.63% 3.73%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.76% 22.13% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 46 40
10th Percentile £361 £279 £263
25th Percentile £429 £325 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -16.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £524 £587
90th Percentile £668 £566 £638
England median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year - -2.56% -7.14%
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 £31.02 £15.96 £13.26
% change year-on-year +94.36% +20.36% -73.48%

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 442 253 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.35% 16.40% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 174 109
10th Percentile £353 £235 £303
25th Percentile £413 £328 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £517
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.96% +3.40%
75th Percentile £574 £538 £594
90th Percentile £642 £600 £650
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 11 6
10th Percentile £16.60 - -
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.48 -
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 - - £33.51
England median hourly rate £33.98 £32.50 £30.56
% change year-on-year +4.55% +6.35% -18.51%

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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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -4 56 £513 +26.86% 27
West Yorkshire -11 40 £463 -2.63% 78
North Yorkshire - 8 £550 - 8
East Yorkshire -3 1 £500 +73.91% 1
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 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.90%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.95%) Navisworks
3 1 (0.95%) ProjectWise
3 1 (0.95%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.95%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 1 (0.95%) SAP FI-AP
1 1 (0.95%) SAP Retail
1 1 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (20.00%) Azure
2 15 (14.29%) AWS
3 9 (8.57%) GitHub
4 4 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.81%) GCP
5 3 (2.86%) BrowserStack
6 2 (1.90%) Azure AKS
6 2 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (1.90%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.90%) Google Data Studio
6 2 (1.90%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.90%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.95%) Azure API Management
7 1 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.95%) Azure Databricks
7 1 (0.95%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.95%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.95%) IaaS
7 1 (0.95%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.95%) Firewall
1 1 (0.95%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.90%) Db2
2 2 (1.90%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.90%) Power Query
3 1 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.95%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.95%) Metadata
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (0.95%) Power BI
3 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (24.76%) JIRA
2 10 (9.52%) Git
3 8 (7.62%) Selenium
4 7 (6.67%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.76%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.76%) Cypress.io
5 5 (4.76%) JUnit
6 4 (3.81%) TestNG
7 3 (2.86%) Gatling
7 3 (2.86%) Postman
7 3 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.86%) Zephyr
8 2 (1.90%) GitLab
8 2 (1.90%) JMeter
8 2 (1.90%) Tricentis qTest
9 1 (0.95%) Mockito
9 1 (0.95%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.95%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.95%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.95%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 16 (15.24%) Finance
4 14 (13.33%) Aerospace
4 14 (13.33%) Manufacturing
5 9 (8.57%) Banking
6 7 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.76%) Retail
8 4 (3.81%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.90%) Law
10 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Local Government
10 1 (0.95%) Military
10 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.95%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (34.29%) QA Engineer
2 26 (24.76%) Quality Engineer
3 16 (15.24%) Lead
4 14 (13.33%) Analyst
5 11 (10.48%) Developer
5 11 (10.48%) Senior
6 10 (9.52%) Business Analyst
7 9 (8.57%) QA Leader
8 7 (6.67%) Tester
9 6 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) QA Tester
10 5 (4.76%) .NET Developer
10 5 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
10 5 (4.76%) Technical Business Analyst
11 4 (3.81%) Architect
12 3 (2.86%) Digital Transformation
12 3 (2.86%) Incident Manager
12 3 (2.86%) Major Incident Manager
12 3 (2.86%) Project Manager
12 3 (2.86%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.24%) REST
2 11 (10.48%) .NET
3 9 (8.57%) ASP.NET
4 7 (6.67%) .NET Core
4 7 (6.67%) React
5 6 (5.71%) Playwright
5 6 (5.71%) SailPoint
5 6 (5.71%) Web Services
6 5 (4.76%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.76%) RESTful
7 4 (3.81%) JSON
7 4 (3.81%) Kafka
7 4 (3.81%) Spring
7 4 (3.81%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.81%) Terraform
8 3 (2.86%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (2.86%) Next.js
9 2 (1.90%) OpenAPI
9 2 (1.90%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (1.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.71%) AI Agents
3 5 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.90%) Replication
5 1 (0.95%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.95%) FMCG
5 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.95%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.95%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.95%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.81%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.95%) Android
2 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.95%) Linux
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.95%) Windows
2 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (30.48%) Agile
1 32 (30.48%) Test Automation
2 24 (22.86%) DevOps
3 23 (21.90%) CI/CD
4 18 (17.14%) Software Delivery
5 14 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (13.33%) Software Engineering
6 13 (12.38%) AI
7 12 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (10.48%) User Stories
9 10 (9.52%) Test Strategy
10 9 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (7.62%) Acceptance Criteria
11 8 (7.62%) ITSM
11 8 (7.62%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (7.62%) Validation
11 8 (7.62%) Workshop Facilitation
12 7 (6.67%) Defect Management
12 7 (6.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 7 (6.67%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.52%) SQL
2 7 (6.67%) C#
2 7 (6.67%) Java
3 6 (5.71%) JavaScript
3 6 (5.71%) TypeScript
4 4 (3.81%) Python
4 4 (3.81%) Scala
5 1 (0.95%) Bicep
5 1 (0.95%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.95%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.48%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) Degree
3 4 (3.81%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (1.90%) IIBA
6 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.95%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.95%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.86%) GRC
3 2 (1.90%) SLA
3 2 (1.90%) WCAG
4 1 (0.95%) COSHH
4 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.95%) GDPR
4 1 (0.95%) HL7
4 1 (0.95%) ISO 14001
4 1 (0.95%) ISO 19650
4 1 (0.95%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (10.48%) Docker
2 7 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.90%) ACF2
3 2 (1.90%) RACF
4 1 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.71%) Ansible
3 1 (0.95%) Grafana
3 1 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.95%) SCCM
3 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.62%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.71%) CyberArk
4 5 (4.76%) Centrify
5 3 (2.86%) IBM
5 3 (2.86%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.90%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.90%) Google
6 2 (1.90%) SAP
6 2 (1.90%) Splunk
7 1 (0.95%) Apple
7 1 (0.95%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.95%) Citrix
7 1 (0.95%) Databricks
7 1 (0.95%) Fujitsu
7 1 (0.95%) New Relic
7 1 (0.95%) Okta
7 1 (0.95%) OpenText
7 1 (0.95%) Oracle
7 1 (0.95%) Red Hat