Manual Testing Contracts in Sheffield

Manual Testing
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring Manual Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manual Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.63% - 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% - 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £397
25th Percentile - - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £481
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.24%
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - £625
South Yorkshire median daily rate £510 - £481
% change year-on-year - - +13.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Manual Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Manual Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Sheffield

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in Sheffield

Manual Testing
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Katalon Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Batch Scheduling
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JCL
1 1 (50.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) IBM