Test Automation Architect Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Automation Test Architect
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Automation Test Architect daily rate in Sheffield is £608, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Architect 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £534 - -
25th Percentile £556 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 - -
75th Percentile £656 - -
90th Percentile £675 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £608 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 698 208 341
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 84.21% 90.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 119 215
10th Percentile £326 £212 £375
25th Percentile £404 £366 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £538 £599 £610
90th Percentile £627 £679 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £14.98 £12.44 £10.90
25th Percentile £16.68 £13.49 £11.33
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.19 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +20.44% -23.81% +11.84%
75th Percentile £22.33 £18.58 £23.75
90th Percentile £24.02 £19.43 £24.50
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.50 £16.19 £13.23
% change year-on-year +20.44% +22.37% -30.37%

Test Automation Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Test Automation Architect job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Test Automation Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation Architect in Sheffield over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation Architect in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Test Automation Architect 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 Test Automation Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SailPoint
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Cypher
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling

Test Automation Architect 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (50.00%) NeoLoad
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Cypher
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) Google