Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Unit Testing
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 46 53
Rank change year-on-year -56 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 2 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.19% 0.30% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.32% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £491 - £375
25th Percentile £495 - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +9.09% +62.96%
75th Percentile £552 - £625
90th Percentile £558 - £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £522 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.00% +9.09% +62.96%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Unit Testing 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 951 310 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 90.49% 93.94% 91.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 197 202
10th Percentile £366 £226 £375
25th Percentile £425 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £494
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.80% -17.71%
75th Percentile £556 £568 £588
90th Percentile £669 £650 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 10
10th Percentile £15.74 - £10.90
25th Percentile £16.34 £18.10 £11.33
Median hourly rate £18.01 £18.51 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -15.86% +7.32%
75th Percentile £19.01 £18.87 £23.75
90th Percentile £19.21 - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.34 £18.51 £17.62
% change year-on-year +4.48% +5.08% +65.71%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Unit Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Unit Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Low-Code
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Robotic Process Automation
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GRC
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Sitecore