QA Contracts in South Yorkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 48 59
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 -27
Contract jobs citing QA 15 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.09% 2.01% 1.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 36.59% 15.63% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 6
10th Percentile £525 £396 -
25th Percentile £620 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% +8.82% +13.33%
75th Percentile £645 £556 £447
90th Percentile £647 £575 £450
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.63 - -
Median hourly rate £12.75 - -
75th Percentile £12.88 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £11.88 £21.50 -
% change year-on-year -44.74% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South 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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 41 64 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 8.45% 12.85% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 39 47
10th Percentile £294 £380 £206
25th Percentile £378 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £596 £631 £550
90th Percentile £640 £715 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £503 £517 £425
% change year-on-year -2.80% +21.65% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £20.43 £13.42
25th Percentile £12.63 £23.69 £17.50
Median hourly rate £12.75 £30.25 £22.29
Median % change year-on-year -57.85% +35.71% +78.96%
75th Percentile £12.88 £35.69 £24.00
90th Percentile - £38.28 £25.80
Yorkshire median hourly rate £11.88 £21.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -44.74% +14.97% +4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for QA in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for QA in South Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in South Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for QA in South Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in South 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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Sheffield -9 13 £625 +35.14% 7
Rotherham - 1 - - 4
Barnsley - 1 £340 - 1
QA
Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 9 (60.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
1 9 (60.00%) GCP
1 9 (60.00%) GitHub
1 9 (60.00%) Kong
2 6 (40.00%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) DNS
2 9 (60.00%) Firewall
2 9 (60.00%) HTTP
2 9 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 9 (60.00%) VPN
3 3 (20.00%) BIG-IP
3 3 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 3 (20.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (20.00%) SSL
4 1 (6.67%) DHCP
4 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (60.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 9 (60.00%) CircleCI
1 9 (60.00%) Git
1 9 (60.00%) GitLab
1 9 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 9 (60.00%) JIRA
1 9 (60.00%) Travis CI
General
1 15 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
1 6 (40.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
1 6 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) Elastic Stack
1 9 (60.00%) JSON
1 9 (60.00%) XML
1 9 (60.00%) YAML
2 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (20.00%) CSS
2 3 (20.00%) HTML
2 3 (20.00%) LDAP
3 1 (6.67%) OLE
3 1 (6.67%) Series 60
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Data Structures
2 4 (26.67%) CMDB
3 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
1 1 (6.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (80.00%) Agile
2 12 (80.00%) DevOps
2 12 (80.00%) Scrum
3 9 (60.00%) API Integration
3 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
3 9 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 9 (60.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 9 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (60.00%) DevSecOps
3 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (60.00%) Project Management
3 9 (60.00%) Secure Coding
3 9 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (60.00%) Task Automation
3 9 (60.00%) Use Case
3 9 (60.00%) Workflow
4 6 (40.00%) API Development
5 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 12 (80.00%) Python
2 9 (60.00%) Bash
3 3 (20.00%) ActionScript
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (6.67%) A+ Certification
3 1 (6.67%) CCNA
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) KVM
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Ansible
1 9 (60.00%) Docker Swarm
1 9 (60.00%) Grafana
1 9 (60.00%) Kibana
1 9 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (60.00%) logstash
1 9 (60.00%) Progress Chef
1 9 (60.00%) Prometheus
1 9 (60.00%) Puppet
1 9 (60.00%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Splunk
2 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
3 3 (20.00%) F5
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.67%) VMware