Software Testing Contracts in South Yorkshire

Software Testing
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 55 59
Rank change year-on-year +25 +4 -24
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 25 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 5.81% 0.78% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.51% 0.84% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 4 1
10th Percentile £382 £341 -
25th Percentile £406 £383 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £412 £413 £300
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +37.50% -57.14%
75th Percentile £430 £477 -
90th Percentile £450 £581 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £428 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Software Testing 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 South Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 384 476 459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 89.30% 93.33% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 313 360
10th Percentile £309 £300 £321
25th Percentile £409 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 41 24
10th Percentile £10.90 - £10.79
25th Percentile £12.64 £9.80 £11.74
Median hourly rate £17.62 £10.63 £16.38
Median % change year-on-year +65.71% -35.08% +37.35%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £22.33
90th Percentile - - £23.93
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
% change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -9.54%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in South Yorkshire

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in South Yorkshire

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in South Yorkshire

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in South Yorkshire

Software Testing
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 Software Testing within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Barnsley - 19 £409 -
Sheffield +4 4 £450 +9.09% 2
Doncaster - 2 £200 -
Software Testing
Yorkshire

Software Testing
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (8.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.00%) JMeter
2 3 (12.00%) Selenium
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (76.00%) Storage Manager
2 2 (8.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 2 (8.00%) Software Tester
2 2 (8.00%) Tester
3 1 (4.00%) Developer
3 1 (4.00%) Developer in Test
3 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (4.00%) Java Developer in Test
3 1 (4.00%) Java Software Developer
3 1 (4.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) zOS
2 13 (52.00%) Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Android
3 2 (8.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (80.00%) Storage Management
2 19 (76.00%) Cost Management
2 19 (76.00%) Project Management
2 19 (76.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (56.00%) Agile
4 13 (52.00%) Problem Management
5 3 (12.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (12.00%) SDET
5 3 (12.00%) Test Scripting
5 3 (12.00%) User Stories
6 2 (8.00%) Mobile Device Management
6 2 (8.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.00%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) JCL
2 10 (40.00%) Python
2 10 (40.00%) REXX
3 3 (12.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (12.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (52.00%) NFS
1 13 (52.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 20 (80.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 11 (44.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (80.00%) IBM
2 15 (60.00%) Broadcom
2 15 (60.00%) Dell
3 13 (52.00%) Brocade
3 13 (52.00%) CA
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft