Test Engineer Contracts in Sheffield

Test Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Test Engineer daily rate in Sheffield is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 45 50
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 5 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.32% 1.74% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 1.77% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 0
10th Percentile £399 £350 -
25th Percentile £413 £409 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £438 £563 -
90th Percentile - £575 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £500 -
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 339 451 373
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.68% 98.04% 96.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 316 301
10th Percentile £360 £363 £300
25th Percentile £413 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £551 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.83% +10.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £563
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 12
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.10 £9.74
25th Percentile £11.33 £11.25 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.72 £16.38
Median % change year-on-year +24.15% +8.21% +20.83%
75th Percentile £23.75 £22.50 £18.11
90th Percentile - £33.00 £23.55
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.60 £17.72 £17.64
% change year-on-year -23.28% +0.45% +10.25%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings that featured Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Sheffield

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in Sheffield

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in Sheffield

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Test Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) JMeter
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
2 4 (80.00%) Test Scripting
2 4 (80.00%) User Stories
2 4 (80.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 4 (80.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (80.00%) WCAG
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Business Case
4 1 (20.00%) Docker
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (20.00%) Terraform
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Management
4 1 (20.00%) Open Source
4 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (20.00%) JIRA
4 1 (20.00%) Agile

Test Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JMeter
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 4 (80.00%) Test Scripting
1 4 (80.00%) User Stories
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Business Case
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Accessibility
1 4 (80.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform