Manual Testing Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Manual Testing
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Manual Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 38 -
Rank change year-on-year -38 - -
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 12 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.66% 0.65% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 0.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £349 - -
25th Percentile £396 £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% - -
75th Percentile £534 £494 -
90th Percentile £588 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £484 £488 -
% change year-on-year -0.72% - -

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 689 283 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.56% 91.88% 95.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 161 235
10th Percentile £317 £220 £385
25th Percentile £400 £421 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £620 £675 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £479 £515 £539
% change year-on-year -7.04% -4.41% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.10
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +52.54%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Manual Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Manual Testing job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Manual Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Manual Testing

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in Sheffield over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in Sheffield

Manual Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Azure
1 9 (75.00%) GCP
2 8 (66.67%) AWS
3 5 (41.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (50.00%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) Selenium
2 9 (75.00%) Cucumber
2 9 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (75.00%) REST Assured
3 8 (66.67%) JIRA
4 7 (58.33%) GitLab
5 6 (50.00%) Postman
5 6 (50.00%) TestRail
6 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
6 1 (8.33%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (16.67%) Banking
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 9 (75.00%) Test Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Lead
3 5 (41.67%) Automation Test Lead
4 4 (33.33%) Lead Test Engineer
5 3 (25.00%) Test Leader
6 1 (8.33%) Analyst
6 1 (8.33%) Mobile Test Analyst
6 1 (8.33%) Senior
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (8.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) LDAP
1 7 (58.33%) OpenID
1 7 (58.33%) REST
1 7 (58.33%) SailPoint
2 6 (50.00%) .NET
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) FMCG
1 1 (8.33%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (75.00%) API Testing
3 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 7 (58.33%) Scenario Testing
4 7 (58.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (58.33%) Test Scripting
5 6 (50.00%) BDD
5 6 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
5 6 (50.00%) TDD
6 5 (41.67%) Data Ingestion
6 5 (41.67%) DevOps
6 5 (41.67%) ETL
6 5 (41.67%) GitOps
6 5 (41.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
6 5 (41.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (33.33%) Agile
7 4 (33.33%) Test Strategy
7 4 (33.33%) Waterfall
8 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Java
2 9 (75.00%) SQL
3 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (50.00%) PHP
3 6 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle