Senior Test Engineer Contracts in Sheffield

Senior Test Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Senior Test Engineer daily rate in Sheffield is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 51 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.08% 0.22% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 0.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £397 - -
25th Percentile £407 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £425 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Sheffield. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Sheffield with a recognized job title 331 438 369
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.98% 98.43% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 305 297
10th Percentile £375 £363 £300
25th Percentile £414 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £563
90th Percentile £650 £728 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 12
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.13 £9.74
25th Percentile £11.33 £12.81 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.86 £16.38
Median % change year-on-year +16.65% +15.18% +6.85%
75th Percentile £23.75 £22.69 £18.11
90th Percentile - £31.38 £23.55
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.60 £18.86 £17.64
% change year-on-year -27.92% +6.92% +2.20%

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings that featured Senior Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in Sheffield

Senior Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Engineer in Sheffield

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Senior Test Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Senior Test Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JMeter
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) User Stories
2 3 (75.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (75.00%) WCAG
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Business Case
4 1 (25.00%) Docker
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) Terraform
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Test Management
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) Agile

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JMeter
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (75.00%) User Stories
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Business Case
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (75.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform