QA Contracts in Yorkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 42 58 87
Rank change year-on-year +16 +29 -20
Contract jobs citing QA 74 63 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.27% 2.94% 2.30%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 36.10% 22.91% 18.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 33 46
10th Percentile £301 £413 £213
25th Percentile £400 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £500
90th Percentile £646 £570 £538
England median daily rate £513 £513 £520
% change year-on-year - -1.44% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £10.86 £20.75 -
Median hourly rate £11.88 £21.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -44.74% - -
75th Percentile - £22.25 -
90th Percentile £12.08 - -
England median hourly rate £14.00 £22.49 £42.60
% change year-on-year -37.74% -47.22% +130.27%

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 205 275 332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.84% 12.82% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 151 232
10th Percentile £263 £250 £167
25th Percentile £375 £425 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £517 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +21.65% -2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £538
90th Percentile £648 £675 £600
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 17
10th Percentile - £13.16 £15.93
25th Percentile £10.86 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £11.88 £21.50 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -44.74% +14.97% +4.76%
75th Percentile £12.13 £48.98 £24.00
90th Percentile £17.73 £49.95 £26.70
England median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for QA in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Yorkshire

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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 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
West Yorkshire +22 49 £550 +4.76% 35
South Yorkshire -2 15 £625 +35.14% 16
North Yorkshire - 2 £463 - 9
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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 11 (14.86%) Confluence
2 5 (6.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.32%) AWS
2 17 (22.97%) Azure
3 15 (20.27%) GitHub
4 9 (12.16%) Apigee
4 9 (12.16%) GCP
4 9 (12.16%) Kong
5 4 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.41%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.70%) SaaS
6 2 (2.70%) Slack
7 1 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.35%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.86%) DNS
2 9 (12.16%) Firewall
2 9 (12.16%) HTTP
2 9 (12.16%) TCP/IP
2 9 (12.16%) VPN
3 6 (8.11%) SSL
4 3 (4.05%) BIG-IP
4 3 (4.05%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (4.05%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (2.70%) DHCP
5 2 (2.70%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.35%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.16%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.76%) MySQL
3 5 (6.76%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.05%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.35%) DB2
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.35%) Power BI
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (24.32%) Jenkins
2 13 (17.57%) GitLab
3 11 (14.86%) Git
3 11 (14.86%) JIRA
4 9 (12.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (12.16%) CircleCI
4 9 (12.16%) Travis CI
5 8 (10.81%) JUnit
6 6 (8.11%) Selenium
7 4 (5.41%) AppScan
7 4 (5.41%) Burp Suite
7 4 (5.41%) SonarQube
8 3 (4.05%) Cucumber
8 3 (4.05%) gulp
8 3 (4.05%) JMeter
8 3 (4.05%) Maven
8 3 (4.05%) Postman
8 3 (4.05%) XCUITest
9 2 (2.70%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.62%) Finance
3 11 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.11%) Banking
5 3 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.70%) Retail
7 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (14.86%) Analyst
2 9 (12.16%) Developer
3 7 (9.46%) Automation Engineer
3 7 (9.46%) Test Engineer
4 6 (8.11%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 6 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.41%) Automation Developer
5 4 (5.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 4 (5.41%) QA Manager
5 4 (5.41%) Quality Manager
5 4 (5.41%) Security Analyst
5 4 (5.41%) Site Engineer
5 4 (5.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.05%) Designer
6 3 (4.05%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.05%) QA Analyst
6 3 (4.05%) QA Test Analyst
6 3 (4.05%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.57%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (13.51%) Gherkin
3 9 (12.16%) JSON
3 9 (12.16%) XML
3 9 (12.16%) YAML
4 4 (5.41%) .NET
4 4 (5.41%) OAuth
4 4 (5.41%) OpenID
4 4 (5.41%) RESTful
4 4 (5.41%) SailPoint
5 3 (4.05%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.05%) CSS
5 3 (4.05%) HTML
5 3 (4.05%) LDAP
5 3 (4.05%) Node.js
5 3 (4.05%) SAML
6 1 (1.35%) Middleware
6 1 (1.35%) OLE
6 1 (1.35%) pytest
6 1 (1.35%) Series 60
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) Data Structures
2 8 (10.81%) Product Ownership
3 6 (8.11%) Mobile App
4 5 (6.76%) Algorithms
5 4 (5.41%) CMDB
5 4 (5.41%) Public Cloud
5 4 (5.41%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (4.05%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.70%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.70%) IoT
7 2 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.35%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.35%) iSeries
8 1 (1.35%) NHS
8 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.76%) Android
1 5 (6.76%) Apple iOS
2 4 (5.41%) Linux
3 2 (2.70%) Windows
3 2 (2.70%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.70%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (51.35%) Agile
2 26 (35.14%) Test Automation
3 25 (33.78%) Scrum
4 23 (31.08%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (27.03%) Project Management
6 19 (25.68%) CI/CD
7 18 (24.32%) DevOps
8 16 (21.62%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (17.57%) Containerisation
9 13 (17.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (17.57%) Kanban
9 13 (17.57%) Test Strategy
9 13 (17.57%) User Stories
10 12 (16.22%) Analytics
11 11 (14.86%) Collaborative Working
12 10 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (13.51%) System Testing
12 10 (13.51%) Use Case
13 9 (12.16%) Software Testing
13 9 (12.16%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 20 (27.03%) Python
2 18 (24.32%) Java
3 16 (21.62%) PowerShell
4 13 (17.57%) Bash
5 9 (12.16%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.05%) ActionScript
8 2 (2.70%) C#
8 2 (2.70%) SQL
9 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 6 (8.11%) Degree
2 3 (4.05%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.70%) A+ Certification
3 2 (2.70%) CCNA
3 2 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (2.70%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.70%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.35%) GRC
2 1 (1.35%) HL7
System Software
1 13 (17.57%) Docker
2 6 (8.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.70%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.70%) KVM
3 2 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.70%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 16 (21.62%) Ansible
2 13 (17.57%) Grafana
2 13 (17.57%) Kubernetes
2 13 (17.57%) Progress Chef
2 13 (17.57%) Prometheus
2 13 (17.57%) Puppet
2 13 (17.57%) Terraform
3 9 (12.16%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (12.16%) Kibana
3 9 (12.16%) logstash
4 4 (5.41%) Graylog
4 4 (5.41%) HP Fortify
4 4 (5.41%) Nessus
4 4 (5.41%) WebInspect
5 3 (4.05%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (17.57%) Splunk
2 12 (16.22%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.41%) Checkmarx
3 4 (5.41%) CyberArk
3 4 (5.41%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.41%) Veracode
4 3 (4.05%) F5
4 3 (4.05%) Google
5 2 (2.70%) VMware
6 1 (1.35%) Ariba
6 1 (1.35%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.35%) SAP