Test Engineer Contracts in South Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Test Engineer daily rate in South Yorkshire is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 46 53
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 5 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.10% 1.53% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.69% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 0
10th Percentile £399 £350 -
25th Percentile £413 £409 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £438 £563 -
90th Percentile - £575 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £411 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.75% +5.26% +16.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 416 474 481
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 90.80% 96.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 332 379
10th Percentile £249 £260 £263
25th Percentile £407 £448 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £582 £651 £548
90th Percentile £639 £700 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 29
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.10 £10.94
25th Percentile £12.63 £11.25 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.60 £17.72 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -23.28% +0.45% +10.25%
75th Percentile £23.31 £22.50 £22.67
90th Percentile £23.75 £33.00 £24.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.50 £22.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -34.09% +25.71% -7.89%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in South Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in South Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in South Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in South Yorkshire

Test Engineer
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 Test Engineer within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Sheffield -7 5 £425 -15.00%
Test Engineer
Yorkshire

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 South Yorkshire region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) JMeter
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
2 4 (80.00%) Test Scripting
2 4 (80.00%) User Stories
2 4 (80.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 4 (80.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (80.00%) WCAG
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Business Case
4 1 (20.00%) Docker
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (20.00%) Terraform
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Management
4 1 (20.00%) Open Source
4 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (20.00%) JIRA
4 1 (20.00%) Agile

Test Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JMeter
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 4 (80.00%) Test Scripting
1 4 (80.00%) User Stories
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Business Case
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Accessibility
1 4 (80.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform