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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 56 32
Rank change year-on-year -31 -24 +50
Contract jobs citing QA 53 21 83
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.55% 2.28% 4.52%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.67% 18.42% 29.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 16 55
10th Percentile £328 £263 £319
25th Percentile £394 £300 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% -23.81%
75th Percentile £618 £528 £544
90th Percentile £681 £574 £695
England median daily rate £500 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.77% -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £12.82 - -
25th Percentile £13.73 - -
Median hourly rate £15.50 - £10.86
75th Percentile £15.75 - -
90th Percentile - - £12.07
England median hourly rate £22.81 £21.50 £21.07
% change year-on-year +6.09% +2.04% -9.35%

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 318 114 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.32% 12.39% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 81 171
10th Percentile £350 £143 £263
25th Percentile £429 £263 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -1.16% -14.00%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £555
90th Percentile £673 £680 £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £13.43 - -
25th Percentile £15.25 - -
Median hourly rate £15.50 £22.14 £10.86
Median % change year-on-year -29.99% +103.87% -52.78%
75th Percentile £18.23 £28.15 £10.97
90th Percentile £26.41 £31.75 £11.94
England median hourly rate £25.50 £30.99 £26.66
% change year-on-year -17.70% +16.22% -23.83%

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

QA
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 February 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 20 February 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
West Yorkshire -7 25 £595 +83.08% 37
South Yorkshire -50 23 £458 -12.76% 20
North Yorkshire - 5 £315 - 12
QA
England

QA
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 3 (5.66%) Confluence
2 2 (3.77%) Mule
3 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (11.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.77%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.74%) Azure
2 16 (30.19%) AWS
3 13 (24.53%) GCP
4 5 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (9.43%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (9.43%) SaaS
5 3 (5.66%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.66%) GitHub
6 2 (3.77%) Cloud Composer
6 2 (3.77%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.89%) Apigee
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.89%) Kong
7 1 (1.89%) OCI
7 1 (1.89%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) Internet
2 1 (1.89%) DNS
2 1 (1.89%) Firewall
2 1 (1.89%) HTTP
2 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) MongoDB
1 5 (9.43%) MySQL
1 5 (9.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.66%) Neo4j
3 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.77%) Cloud Spanner
3 2 (3.77%) GIS
4 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (32.08%) Jenkins
2 15 (28.30%) GitLab
3 14 (26.42%) JIRA
4 11 (20.75%) Cucumber
5 9 (16.98%) Postman
6 7 (13.21%) Selenium
7 6 (11.32%) TestRail
8 5 (9.43%) JMeter
8 5 (9.43%) REST Assured
9 4 (7.55%) Cypress.io
10 3 (5.66%) Gatling
10 3 (5.66%) LoadRunner
10 3 (5.66%) NeoLoad
11 2 (3.77%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (1.89%) CircleCI
12 1 (1.89%) Git
12 1 (1.89%) Travis CI
12 1 (1.89%) Zephyr
General
1 30 (56.60%) Social Skills
2 12 (22.64%) Finance
3 8 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.55%) Banking
5 4 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (5.66%) Military
7 2 (3.77%) Legal
8 1 (1.89%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 12 (22.64%) Project Manager
2 11 (20.75%) Test Engineer
3 10 (18.87%) Senior
4 9 (16.98%) Lead
5 7 (13.21%) SAP Manager
5 7 (13.21%) SAP Project Manager
6 6 (11.32%) Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (9.43%) Senior Test Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Analyst
8 4 (7.55%) Build Manager
8 4 (7.55%) QA Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Senior Manager
9 3 (5.66%) Automation Test Lead
9 3 (5.66%) Business Analyst
9 3 (5.66%) Consultant
9 3 (5.66%) Senior Project Manager
9 3 (5.66%) Software Manager
10 2 (3.77%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 2 (3.77%) QA Leader
10 2 (3.77%) QA Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.09%) LDAP
1 8 (15.09%) OpenID
1 8 (15.09%) REST
1 8 (15.09%) SailPoint
2 7 (13.21%) Playwright
3 5 (9.43%) .NET
4 4 (7.55%) Node.js
5 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.77%) JSON
5 2 (3.77%) LangChain
5 2 (3.77%) LangGraph
5 2 (3.77%) React
5 2 (3.77%) RESTful
5 2 (3.77%) Spring
5 2 (3.77%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.89%) ADO
6 1 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.89%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.89%) XML
6 1 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Cloud Native
1 5 (9.43%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.55%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.77%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.89%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.89%) IoT
5 1 (1.89%) NHS
5 1 (1.89%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.89%) SCADA
5 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.94%) CI/CD
2 21 (39.62%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (37.74%) DevOps
4 17 (32.08%) Agile
4 17 (32.08%) Test Automation
5 15 (28.30%) Business Case
5 15 (28.30%) Project Management
6 12 (22.64%) Test Scripting
7 11 (20.75%) BDD
7 11 (20.75%) Project Delivery
7 11 (20.75%) Test Strategy
8 10 (18.87%) Manual Testing
8 10 (18.87%) Scenario Testing
8 10 (18.87%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (16.98%) ETL
9 9 (16.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (16.98%) Validation
10 8 (15.09%) Microservices
10 8 (15.09%) Operational Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (28.30%) Java
2 11 (20.75%) Python
3 8 (15.09%) JavaScript
3 8 (15.09%) TypeScript
4 7 (13.21%) SQL
5 5 (9.43%) PHP
6 3 (5.66%) Cypher
6 3 (5.66%) Scala
7 2 (3.77%) Bash
8 1 (1.89%) C#
8 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) PMP
2 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) Degree
3 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) Accessibility
2 5 (9.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.77%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
3 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 2 (3.77%) ISO17020
3 2 (3.77%) PMO
4 1 (1.89%) NCSC
4 1 (1.89%) NIST
4 1 (1.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (5.66%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 1 (1.89%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (11.32%) Grafana
2 4 (7.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.89%) Ansible
3 1 (1.89%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (1.89%) Kibana
3 1 (1.89%) logstash
3 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.89%) Puppet
3 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (24.53%) SAP
2 8 (15.09%) ServiceNow
3 6 (11.32%) Google
3 6 (11.32%) Splunk
4 4 (7.55%) ESRI
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.89%) Databricks
6 1 (1.89%) MarketAxess
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle
6 1 (1.89%) Planview
6 1 (1.89%) Tradeweb
6 1 (1.89%) Workday