Test Automation Contracts in Sheffield

Automated Testing
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation 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 26 42 37
Rank change year-on-year +16 -5 +10
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 24 13 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 7.52% 3.43% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.87% 3.70% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 15
10th Percentile £360 £392 £423
25th Percentile £396 £396 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £408 £575
Median % change year-on-year +26.35% -29.13% +22.99%
75th Percentile £611 £426 £688
90th Percentile £681 £433 £743
South Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £408 £575
% change year-on-year +27.55% -29.13% +27.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Test Automation 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%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Sheffield

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Sheffield

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Sheffield

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Sheffield.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Sheffield

Test Automation
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 6 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Network Security
1 2 (8.33%) SAN
2 1 (4.17%) BGP
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) EIGRP
2 1 (4.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) HTTP
2 1 (4.17%) OSPF
2 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) InfluxDB
1 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) JIRA
2 8 (33.33%) Git
2 8 (33.33%) Selenium
3 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 5 (20.83%) Cucumber
4 5 (20.83%) JUnit
5 4 (16.67%) Gradle
5 4 (16.67%) HP UFT
5 4 (16.67%) IntelliJ
5 4 (16.67%) Maven
6 2 (8.33%) JMeter
6 2 (8.33%) Postman
6 2 (8.33%) TestNG
7 1 (4.17%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (4.17%) REST Assured
7 1 (4.17%) Vagrant
7 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (29.17%) Banking
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Architect
1 5 (20.83%) Test Manager
2 3 (12.50%) Tester
3 2 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Test Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Automation Tester
4 1 (4.17%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Disaster Recovery Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Disaster Recovery Test Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Lead
4 1 (4.17%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) React Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (8.33%) pytest
3 1 (4.17%) Gherkin
3 1 (4.17%) JSON
3 1 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) RAML
3 1 (4.17%) RESTful
3 1 (4.17%) SOAP
3 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.17%) Web Services
3 1 (4.17%) XML
3 1 (4.17%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.33%) EMC VMAX
2 2 (8.33%) Mainframe
2 2 (8.33%) Replication
3 1 (4.17%) AS400
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.17%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (4.17%) iSeries
3 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Android
1 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) DevOps
2 11 (45.83%) CI/CD
3 7 (29.17%) Agile
3 7 (29.17%) Non-Functional Testing
3 7 (29.17%) Test Strategy
4 6 (25.00%) BDD
4 6 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (25.00%) Observability
4 6 (25.00%) TDD
4 6 (25.00%) Workflow
5 5 (20.83%) Code Quality
5 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (20.83%) Data Analysis
5 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (20.83%) Microservices
5 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (20.83%) Software Testing
5 5 (20.83%) Validation
6 4 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) Java
3 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.33%) Bash
4 2 (8.33%) Go
4 2 (8.33%) JCL
4 2 (8.33%) REXX
5 1 (4.17%) Ruby
5 1 (4.17%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) CCNP
1 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
1 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
1 1 (4.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
1 1 (4.17%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (12.50%) Puppet
3 2 (8.33%) Control-M
3 2 (8.33%) Grafana
3 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 2 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (8.33%) vRealize
4 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (8.33%) 3PAR
2 2 (8.33%) Brocade
2 2 (8.33%) EMC
2 2 (8.33%) HP
2 2 (8.33%) IBM
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) Splunk
2 2 (8.33%) VMware
3 1 (4.17%) AppDynamics
3 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.17%) F5