Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

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South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
2 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 35 48
Rank change year-on-year -46 +13 +11
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 8 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.08% 1.49% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.61% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £468 £523 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £545 £400
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% +36.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £725 £568 £450
90th Percentile £793 - £465
South Yorkshire median daily rate £625 £545 £400
% change year-on-year +14.68% +36.25% -33.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Test Strategy 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 705 249 367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.14% 92.91% 95.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 145 231
10th Percentile £325 £220 £384
25th Percentile £403 £421 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £613 £686 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -5.20% -3.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 8
10th Percentile £16.11 £12.44 £12.11
25th Percentile £19.50 £13.49 £17.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% -23.81% +11.84%
75th Percentile - £18.58 £23.75
90th Percentile - £19.43 £26.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £22.50
% change year-on-year +55.34% -28.04% +129.59%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Sheffield over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Sheffield

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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:

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (12.50%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) AWS
3 4 (50.00%) GCP
4 3 (37.50%) SaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (12.50%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MySQL
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
1 5 (62.50%) Selenium
2 4 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 4 (50.00%) Postman
2 4 (50.00%) REST Assured
3 3 (37.50%) GitLab
3 3 (37.50%) TestRail
4 1 (12.50%) JUnit
4 1 (12.50%) Maven
4 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
4 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
4 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Lead
2 3 (37.50%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) SAP Architect
3 2 (25.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Test Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) ERP Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Migration Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) NetSuite Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) LDAP
1 4 (50.00%) OpenID
1 4 (50.00%) REST
1 4 (50.00%) SailPoint
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) API Testing
2 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
3 4 (50.00%) ETL
3 4 (50.00%) Manual Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (37.50%) BDD
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Process Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (37.50%) TDD
4 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
4 3 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) PHP
3 3 (37.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SAP Certification
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
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