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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 51 45
Rank change year-on-year -16 -6 +44
Contract jobs citing QA 56 56 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.63% 3.72% 3.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.31% 32.37% 25.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 40 43
10th Percentile £279 £263 £356
25th Percentile £325 £450 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £524 £587 £536
90th Percentile £566 £638 £595
England median daily rate £475 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.75
Median hourly rate £12.21 £11.88 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -44.74% -57.00%
75th Percentile - - £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £15.96 £13.26 £50.00
% change year-on-year +20.36% -73.48% +40.85%

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 251 173 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.26% 11.50% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 109 172
10th Percentile £235 £303 £275
25th Percentile £317 £378 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £517 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.03% +3.40% -
75th Percentile £538 £594 £578
90th Percentile £600 £650 £664
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 6
10th Percentile - - £14.24
25th Percentile £17.48 - £16.05
Median hourly rate £22.14 £11.88 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.36% -43.43% +12.30%
75th Percentile - £16.67 £42.42
90th Percentile - £33.51 £50.55
England median hourly rate £32.50 £31.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year +4.43% -17.01% +66.67%

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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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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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 -18 29 £475 -11.01% 22
South Yorkshire +1 25 £404 -35.36% 10
East Yorkshire - 1 £288 - 4
QA
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 5 (8.93%) Mule
2 4 (7.14%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) Apache
3 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.79%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.36%) AWS
2 10 (17.86%) Azure
2 10 (17.86%) GCP
3 9 (16.07%) GitHub
4 5 (8.93%) Serverless
5 4 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.57%) npm
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.79%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.79%) Bloomreach
7 1 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.79%) Contentsquare
7 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) MongoDB
2 5 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.36%) DocumentDB
4 3 (5.36%) Redis
5 2 (3.57%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.57%) GIS
5 2 (3.57%) MySQL
6 1 (1.79%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.79%) Looker
6 1 (1.79%) Power BI
6 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (33.93%) JIRA
2 17 (30.36%) Jenkins
3 16 (28.57%) Git
4 11 (19.64%) Selenium
5 8 (14.29%) Postman
6 7 (12.50%) GitLab
6 7 (12.50%) Maven
6 7 (12.50%) SonarQube
6 7 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (10.71%) Cucumber
7 6 (10.71%) JUnit
8 5 (8.93%) IntelliJ
8 5 (8.93%) TestNG
9 3 (5.36%) Cypress.io
9 3 (5.36%) Gradle
9 3 (5.36%) HP UFT
10 2 (3.57%) Artifactory
10 2 (3.57%) Babel
10 2 (3.57%) JMeter
10 2 (3.57%) SoapUI
General
1 16 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.00%) Banking
3 8 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.71%) Finance
5 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Local Government
6 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Marketing
7 1 (1.79%) Military
7 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (12.50%) Developer
1 7 (12.50%) Test Manager
2 6 (10.71%) Lead
2 6 (10.71%) Senior
3 5 (8.93%) Service Manager
3 5 (8.93%) Test Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Tester
5 3 (5.36%) Automation Tester
5 3 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) AWS Software Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Consultant
5 3 (5.36%) Node.js Developer
5 3 (5.36%) QA Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Angular Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Migration Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Test Leader
6 2 (3.57%) Testing Consultant
6 2 (3.57%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.29%) Node.js
2 7 (12.50%) RESTful
3 6 (10.71%) React
4 4 (7.14%) CSS
4 4 (7.14%) CSS3
4 4 (7.14%) HTML
4 4 (7.14%) HTML5
4 4 (7.14%) Kafka
4 4 (7.14%) REST
4 4 (7.14%) Spring
5 3 (5.36%) Hibernate
5 3 (5.36%) Playwright
5 3 (5.36%) pytest
6 2 (3.57%) Jest
6 2 (3.57%) lodash
6 2 (3.57%) MEAN Stack
6 2 (3.57%) NestJS
6 2 (3.57%) NgRx
6 2 (3.57%) Redux
6 2 (3.57%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Onboarding
2 5 (8.93%) Distributed Applications
2 5 (8.93%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (8.93%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.79%) EPoS
5 1 (1.79%) NHS
5 1 (1.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Windows
2 3 (5.36%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.79%) Android
3 1 (1.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 21 (37.50%) DevOps
2 20 (35.71%) Test Automation
3 17 (30.36%) Microservices
4 16 (28.57%) Agile
5 14 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 10 (17.86%) Code Quality
6 10 (17.86%) Software Testing
7 9 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (16.07%) End-to-End Testing
7 9 (16.07%) Scrum
7 9 (16.07%) TDD
8 8 (14.29%) ETL
9 7 (12.50%) API Testing
9 7 (12.50%) BDD
9 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
9 7 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (10.71%) Story Points
10 6 (10.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.21%) Java
2 8 (14.29%) SQL
3 7 (12.50%) Python
4 5 (8.93%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.79%) Bash
6 1 (1.79%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.93%) ISTQB
4 3 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.36%) CISSP
5 2 (3.57%) CISM
5 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.57%) Degree
5 2 (3.57%) PMP
6 1 (1.79%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) WCAG
2 5 (8.93%) Accessibility
3 4 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.79%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.79%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (8.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (1.79%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.29%) Google
3 2 (3.57%) Apple
3 2 (3.57%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (3.57%) Citrix
3 2 (3.57%) CyberArk
3 2 (3.57%) SAP
3 2 (3.57%) Thycotic
4 1 (1.79%) BMC
4 1 (1.79%) Databricks
4 1 (1.79%) Hotjar
4 1 (1.79%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.79%) Splunk