Test Management Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Test Management
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Test Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 41 51
Rank change year-on-year -34 +10 +8
Contract jobs citing Test Management 10 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.40% 0.32% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 0.35% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £333 - -
25th Percentile £361 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £450
75th Percentile £525 - £475
90th Percentile £534 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 - £450

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Test Management 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 684 287 373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.80% 92.28% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 162 236
10th Percentile £318 £220 £388
25th Percentile £401 £421 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £623 £675 £723
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £515 £540
% change year-on-year -6.80% -4.63% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile £14.31 £12.79 £19.10
25th Percentile - £14.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.00 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.10% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £16.19 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.35% -28.04% +52.54%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Test Management job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Test Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Test Management

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in Sheffield over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in Sheffield

Test Management
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 8 (80.00%) AWS
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
1 8 (80.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) JIRA
1 9 (90.00%) Postman
1 9 (90.00%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Analyst
1 8 (80.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) API Testing
1 9 (90.00%) Identity Access Management
1 9 (90.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 9 (90.00%) Software Testing
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Cloud Security
2 8 (80.00%) DevSecOps
2 8 (80.00%) Kanban
2 8 (80.00%) Scrum
2 8 (80.00%) Security Testing
3 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Functional Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Issue Tracking
5 1 (10.00%) KYC
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) CISM
1 8 (80.00%) CISSP
1 8 (80.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) GDPR
1 6 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (60.00%) NIST
1 6 (60.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) BeyondTrust
1 9 (90.00%) CyberArk
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
1 9 (90.00%) Thycotic
2 8 (80.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk