Automation Test Lead Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Test Automation Leader
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Test Automation Leader daily rate in Sheffield is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Test Lead 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.57% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 637 268 349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 85.90% 89.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 157 225
10th Percentile £316 £220 £375
25th Percentile £400 £422 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% -2.91% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £630
90th Percentile £611 £683 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £520 £529
% change year-on-year -8.65% -1.65% +0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £14.98 £12.79 £15.39
25th Percentile £16.68 £14.35 £18.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.10 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -14.85% +11.84%
75th Percentile £22.33 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile £24.02 £21.05 £27.50
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.50 £18.10 £22.50
% change year-on-year +7.76% -19.58% +30.43%

Automation Test Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Automation Test Lead' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Automation Test Lead job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Automation Test Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Automation Test Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Automation Test Lead in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) API Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 4 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 4 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
2 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 3 (75.00%) Postman
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) TestRail
3 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) ETL

Automation Test Lead Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) Postman
2 3 (75.00%) TestRail
3 2 (50.00%) GitLab
3 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) LDAP
2 2 (50.00%) OpenID
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) SailPoint
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) API Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) GitOps
3 2 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 3 (75.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
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