Software Testing Contracts in Sheffield

Software Testing
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software 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 44 51 52
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 -
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 6 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.88% 1.06% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 1.14% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £456 £424 £341
25th Percentile - £441 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile - £456 £477
90th Percentile £574 £465 £581
South Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £412 £413
% change year-on-year +26.23% -0.18% +37.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Software 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%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Sheffield

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Sheffield

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in Sheffield

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Sheffield

Software 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 4 (66.67%) Git
2 4 (66.67%) Gradle
2 4 (66.67%) HP UFT
2 4 (66.67%) IntelliJ
2 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (66.67%) JUnit
2 4 (66.67%) Maven
2 4 (66.67%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) Katalon Studio
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JPA
1 1 (16.67%) jQuery
1 1 (16.67%) MyBatis
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring MVC
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (83.33%) Non-Functional Testing
1 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
1 5 (83.33%) Test Strategy
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) BDD
2 4 (66.67%) Case Management
2 4 (66.67%) Code Coverage
2 4 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Data Privacy
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Document Management
2 4 (66.67%) Due Diligence
2 4 (66.67%) Exploratory Testing
2 4 (66.67%) QA Automation
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle