Test Automation Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Automation Test Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Automation Test Engineer daily rate in Sheffield is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
23 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 15 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.87% - 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.08% - 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £416 - -
25th Percentile £449 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £528 - -
90th Percentile £538 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 - -

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 721 207 341
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.68% 84.15% 91.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 121 217
10th Percentile £335 £213 £350
25th Percentile £406 £409 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £510 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% -5.56% -1.82%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £609
90th Percentile £644 £663 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £14.98 £12.10 -
25th Percentile £16.68 £12.62 £10.90
Median hourly rate £19.50 £14.85 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.36% -34.02% +18.42%
75th Percentile £22.33 £16.68 £23.75
90th Percentile £24.02 £16.97 £25.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.50 £14.85 £13.23
% change year-on-year +31.36% +12.21% -30.37%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Test Automation Engineer job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Test Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Automation Engineer job vacancies in Sheffield.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Automation Engineer job vacancies in Sheffield

Test Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation Engineer in Sheffield over the 6 months to 23 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation Engineer in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 23 January 2026, Test Automation Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (86.67%) Java
3 12 (80.00%) Manual Testing
4 11 (73.33%) API Testing
5 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
5 10 (66.67%) Jenkins
5 10 (66.67%) SQL
5 10 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (60.00%) AWS
6 9 (60.00%) Azure
6 9 (60.00%) GCP
6 9 (60.00%) Scenario Testing
6 9 (60.00%) Test Scripting
7 8 (53.33%) Cucumber
7 8 (53.33%) GitLab
7 8 (53.33%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (53.33%) JIRA
7 8 (53.33%) LDAP
7 8 (53.33%) OpenID
7 8 (53.33%) Postman
7 8 (53.33%) Python
7 8 (53.33%) REST
7 8 (53.33%) REST Assured
7 8 (53.33%) SailPoint
7 8 (53.33%) Selenium
7 8 (53.33%) ServiceNow
8 7 (46.67%) Data Ingestion
9 6 (40.00%) DevOps
9 6 (40.00%) ETL
9 6 (40.00%) GitOps

Test Automation Engineer 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 9 (60.00%) AWS
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
1 9 (60.00%) GCP
2 4 (26.67%) SaaS
3 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) MySQL
1 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 8 (53.33%) Cucumber
2 8 (53.33%) GitLab
2 8 (53.33%) JIRA
2 8 (53.33%) Postman
2 8 (53.33%) REST Assured
2 8 (53.33%) Selenium
3 5 (33.33%) TestRail
4 2 (13.33%) Gatling
4 2 (13.33%) JMeter
4 2 (13.33%) LoadRunner
4 2 (13.33%) NeoLoad
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) LDAP
1 8 (53.33%) OpenID
1 8 (53.33%) REST
1 8 (53.33%) SailPoint
2 5 (33.33%) .NET
3 3 (20.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 12 (80.00%) Manual Testing
3 11 (73.33%) API Testing
4 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 10 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 9 (60.00%) Scenario Testing
5 9 (60.00%) Test Scripting
6 8 (53.33%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (46.67%) Data Ingestion
8 6 (40.00%) DevOps
8 6 (40.00%) ETL
8 6 (40.00%) GitOps
8 6 (40.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
8 6 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
8 6 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (33.33%) BDD
9 5 (33.33%) TDD
9 5 (33.33%) Test Strategy
10 3 (20.00%) Event-Driven
10 3 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Java
2 10 (66.67%) SQL
3 8 (53.33%) Python
4 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (33.33%) PHP
5 3 (20.00%) Scala
5 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (13.33%) Cypher
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) Google
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