Manual Testing Contracts in South Yorkshire

Manual Testing
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Manual Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manual Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, 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 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 3 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.80% - 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% - 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £397
25th Percentile £505 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - £481
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.24%
75th Percentile £515 - £575
90th Percentile - - £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £281 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -29.69% -5.88% -5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Manual 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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Manual Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in South Yorkshire

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in South Yorkshire

Manual Testing
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 Manual Testing 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 - 2 - - 4
Manual Testing
Yorkshire

Manual Testing
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) IntelliJ
2 1 (33.33%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Manual Tester
1 1 (33.33%) QA Manual Tester
1 1 (33.33%) QA Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Batch Scheduling
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Quality Management
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JCL
1 1 (33.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft