Test Leader Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Test Lead
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Test Lead daily rate in Sheffield is £372, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
19 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 38 -
Rank change year-on-year -44 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 6 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.83% 0.65% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.76% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £355 £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £372 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.69% - -
75th Percentile £525 £494 -
90th Percentile £593 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £372 £488 -
% change year-on-year -23.69% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 650 264 351
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.15% 85.71% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 156 227
10th Percentile £316 £220 £375
25th Percentile £400 £414 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.88% -3.09% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £610 £684 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -7.32% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £14.98 £12.79 £15.39
25th Percentile £16.68 £14.35 £18.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.10 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -14.85% +11.84%
75th Percentile £22.33 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile £24.02 £21.05 £27.50
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.50 £18.10 £22.50
% change year-on-year +7.76% -19.58% +18.42%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Test Leader job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Test Leader
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Leader job vacancies in Sheffield

Test Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Leader in Sheffield over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Leader in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Test Leader 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 Leader in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (83.33%) SailPoint
3 4 (66.67%) API Testing
3 4 (66.67%) AWS
3 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 4 (66.67%) GCP
4 3 (50.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (50.00%) Defect Management
4 3 (50.00%) Identity Management
4 3 (50.00%) JIRA
4 3 (50.00%) JUnit
4 3 (50.00%) LDAP
4 3 (50.00%) Manual Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Maven
4 3 (50.00%) OpenID
4 3 (50.00%) Regression Testing
4 3 (50.00%) REST
4 3 (50.00%) REST Assured
4 3 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) Secrets Management
4 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement

Test Leader 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 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
2 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (50.00%) JIRA
3 3 (50.00%) JUnit
3 3 (50.00%) Maven
3 3 (50.00%) REST Assured
3 3 (50.00%) WebDriver
4 2 (33.33%) GitLab
4 2 (33.33%) Postman
5 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
5 1 (16.67%) TestRail
5 1 (16.67%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) SailPoint
2 3 (50.00%) LDAP
2 3 (50.00%) OpenID
2 3 (50.00%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (66.67%) API Testing
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Defect Management
4 3 (50.00%) Identity Management
4 3 (50.00%) Manual Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Regression Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) Secrets Management
4 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (33.33%) ETL
5 2 (33.33%) GitOps
5 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
6 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
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