Test Automation Contracts in Sheffield

Automated Testing
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 36 48
Rank change year-on-year -6 +12 -22
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 14 18 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 3.71% 3.96% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.01% 4.15% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 2
10th Percentile £392 £423 £422
25th Percentile £395 £500 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 £468
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +22.99% -6.27%
75th Percentile £419 £688 £496
90th Percentile £430 £743 £507
South Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% -9.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 349 434 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 92.57% 95.59% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 304 292
10th Percentile £375 £363 £350
25th Percentile £414 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £563
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £471 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -14.36% +10.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 11
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.05 £9.49
25th Percentile £11.33 £11.13 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £11.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.30% -28.13% +4.40%
75th Percentile £23.75 £25.88 £18.57
90th Percentile - £34.35 £24.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.62 £10.63 £16.75
% change year-on-year +65.71% -36.54% +22.31%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Sheffield

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Sheffield

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Sheffield.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Sheffield

Test Automation
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JMeter
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) LoadRunner
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Banking
3 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Qlik Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Qlik Sense Developer
5 1 (7.14%) React Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
1 3 (21.43%) CSS
1 3 (21.43%) HTML
1 3 (21.43%) LDAP
2 1 (7.14%) D3.js
2 1 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) CMDB
2 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Mashup
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Change Management
1 10 (71.43%) DevOps
2 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (42.86%) Cloud Security
3 6 (42.86%) Design Patterns
3 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (42.86%) Microservices
3 6 (42.86%) Observability
3 6 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 6 (42.86%) Technology Strategy
4 5 (35.71%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) Compliance Management
5 4 (28.57%) Incident Management
5 4 (28.57%) Knowledge Management
5 4 (28.57%) Problem Management
5 4 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 4 (28.57%) Scrum
5 4 (28.57%) Security Operations
5 4 (28.57%) Service Catalogue
5 4 (28.57%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
1 3 (21.43%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
2 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (7.14%) GRC
3 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) ServiceNow