Test Scripting Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Test Scripting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 38 44
Rank change year-on-year -37 +6 +10
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 10 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.38% 1.37% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.48% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £391 £485 £375
25th Percentile £420 £491 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +17.65% -31.31%
75th Percentile £497 £528 £444
90th Percentile £514 £545 £460
South Yorkshire median daily rate £468 £494 £425
% change year-on-year -5.22% +16.18% -31.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Test Scripting 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 689 271 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.03% 92.81% 96.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 152 229
10th Percentile £320 £220 £387
25th Percentile £402 £419 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £621 £692 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £509 £525
% change year-on-year -5.60% -3.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.25
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.31
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £27.50
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +60.71%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Test Scripting job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Sheffield over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Sheffield

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Test Scripting.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Test Scripting

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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 6 (60.00%) AWS
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
1 6 (60.00%) GCP
2 5 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) MySQL
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Cucumber
1 7 (70.00%) REST Assured
1 7 (70.00%) Selenium
2 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (60.00%) Postman
2 6 (60.00%) TestRail
3 5 (50.00%) GitLab
3 5 (50.00%) JIRA
4 3 (30.00%) Jaeger
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Lead
3 4 (40.00%) Automation Test Lead
3 4 (40.00%) Lead Test Engineer
4 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (20.00%) Senior
5 2 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) .NET
2 5 (50.00%) LDAP
2 5 (50.00%) OpenID
2 5 (50.00%) REST
2 5 (50.00%) SailPoint
3 3 (30.00%) Kafka
3 3 (30.00%) Middleware
3 3 (30.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (90.00%) Identity Access Management
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps
3 7 (70.00%) API Testing
3 7 (70.00%) Manual Testing
3 7 (70.00%) Scenario Testing
3 7 (70.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 7 (70.00%) Test Automation
4 6 (60.00%) BDD
4 6 (60.00%) TDD
5 5 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
5 5 (50.00%) ETL
5 5 (50.00%) GitOps
5 5 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 5 (50.00%) Process Improvement
5 5 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
5 5 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (30.00%) Coaching
7 3 (30.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (60.00%) PHP
2 6 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Grafana
1 3 (30.00%) Kiali
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (30.00%) Splunk