QA Contracts in Leeds

Quality Assurance (QA)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 25 78
Rank change year-on-year -23 +53 -14
Contract jobs citing QA 19 60 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.84% 6.02% 2.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 27.94% 37.04% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 29 23
10th Percentile £363 £380 £414
25th Percentile £410 £475 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £517 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% -6.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £641
90th Percentile £575 £688 £669
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £20.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate - £21.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -57.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile - £22.25 £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £21.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - -57.00% +6.38%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 68 162 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 10.18% 16.25% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 105 160
10th Percentile £359 £244 £199
25th Percentile £394 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £509 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% +1.70% +5.26%
75th Percentile £595 £594 £575
90th Percentile £714 £661 £667
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £20.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate - £21.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -57.00% +59.08%
75th Percentile - £22.25 £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £18.81 £18.70
% change year-on-year - +0.56% +31.88%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Leeds over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Selenium
2 3 (15.79%) JMeter
2 3 (15.79%) JUnit
3 2 (10.53%) Cypress.io
3 2 (10.53%) JIRA
3 2 (10.53%) Postman
3 2 (10.53%) WebDriver
4 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.26%) GitLab
4 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.26%) REST Assured
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Retail
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Test Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Lead
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Business Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Business Development Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Business Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Development Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Lead Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) QA Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Sales Business Development Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Sales Manager
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) QA Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) Gherkin
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.26%) FHIR
2 1 (5.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) IoT
3 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) LIMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) Test Automation
3 7 (36.84%) Software Testing
4 5 (26.32%) API Testing
5 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
5 4 (21.05%) TDD
5 4 (21.05%) Test Scripting
6 3 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (15.79%) Business Development
6 3 (15.79%) Coaching
6 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
6 3 (15.79%) Kanban
6 3 (15.79%) Lead Generation
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Scrum
6 3 (15.79%) Software Delivery
6 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.79%) System Testing
6 3 (15.79%) Thought Leadership
6 3 (15.79%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Java
2 3 (15.79%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.26%) HL7
1 1 (5.26%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Workday