Test Manager Contracts in Sheffield

Test Manager
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Test Manager daily rate in Sheffield is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.57% - 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.72% - 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £455 - £355
25th Percentile - - £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £500
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile £605 - £560
South Yorkshire median daily rate £520 - £500

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 291 340 445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 89.71% 98.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 210 311
10th Percentile £220 £360 £363
25th Percentile £381 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £481 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -12.50% +10.00%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £675
90th Percentile £641 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £470 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -1.05% -13.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 5
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.10
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £22.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +24.15% +8.21%
75th Percentile £18.50 £23.75 £22.50
90th Percentile £18.51 - £33.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.35 £13.60 £17.72
% change year-on-year +34.99% -23.28% +0.45%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Manager in Sheffield

Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Test Manager in Sheffield

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Manager in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Test Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Confluence
2 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (60.00%) BDD
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Gradle
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Data Privacy
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) JUnit
2 3 (60.00%) IntelliJ
2 3 (60.00%) HP UFT
2 3 (60.00%) Code Coverage
2 3 (60.00%) Workflow
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) Document Management
2 3 (60.00%) Maven
2 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) QA
2 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) QA Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Case Management

Test Manager 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) Gradle
1 3 (60.00%) HP UFT
1 3 (60.00%) IntelliJ
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
1 3 (60.00%) JUnit
1 3 (60.00%) Maven
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) AS400
2 1 (20.00%) iSeries
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) BDD
2 3 (60.00%) Case Management
2 3 (60.00%) Code Coverage
2 3 (60.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Data Privacy
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Document Management
2 3 (60.00%) Due Diligence
2 3 (60.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (60.00%) QA Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) IBM