Automation Tester Contracts in South Yorkshire

Automation Tester
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Automation Tester daily rate in South Yorkshire is £530, 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 44 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.07% - 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% - 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £403 - -
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - £700
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £458 £438
% change year-on-year +20.22% +4.57% -9.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 339 416 484
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 91.03% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 261 343
10th Percentile £185 £235 £263
25th Percentile £375 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £556 £580 £658
90th Percentile £638 £638 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 5
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.10
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.63 £11.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £13.60 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +34.99% -23.28% +0.45%
75th Percentile £18.50 £23.31 £22.50
90th Percentile £18.51 £23.75 £33.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in South Yorkshire

Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Tester in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Automation Tester in South Yorkshire

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Tester in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Tester in South Yorkshire

Automation Tester
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Tester within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield - 1 £369 - 2
Automation Tester
Yorkshire

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Automation Tester 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 South Yorkshire region featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
2 3 (75.00%) QA
2 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) Maven
2 3 (75.00%) API Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Postman
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) IntelliJ
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Confluence
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
3 1 (25.00%) VirtualBox
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Vagrant
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell

Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
2 3 (75.00%) IntelliJ
2 3 (75.00%) Maven
2 3 (75.00%) Postman
2 3 (75.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) Vagrant
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk