Software Testing Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Software Testing
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Software Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 59 48
Rank change year-on-year -11 -11 +13
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 13 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.90% 0.63% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 0.71% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 4
10th Percentile £339 - -
25th Percentile £358 £481 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £488 £445
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% +9.55% -20.89%
75th Percentile £522 £494 £840
90th Percentile £548 - £1,461
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -13.64% +8.37% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.50
75th Percentile - - £22.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £20.50
% change year-on-year - - -59.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Software 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 655 423 404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.90% 89.24% 93.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 221 255
10th Percentile £306 £230 £375
25th Percentile £388 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £520 £587
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -11.48% +17.49%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £651
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 5
10th Percentile £14.66 - £18.35
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%
75th Percentile £20.44 £16.68 £31.25
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.05 £42.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.04 £19.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +31.78% -10.84% +12.16%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Software Testing job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Software Testing
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Software Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in South Yorkshire

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Software Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Software Testing

Software 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 Software Testing within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 October 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 -16 13 £460 -5.64% 3
Software Testing
Yorkshire

Software Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (23.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
1 8 (61.54%) GCP
2 2 (15.38%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 12 (92.31%) JIRA
2 9 (69.23%) Postman
2 9 (69.23%) SoapUI
3 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 2 (15.38%) Git
3 2 (15.38%) Gradle
3 2 (15.38%) HP UFT
3 2 (15.38%) IntelliJ
3 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) JUnit
3 2 (15.38%) Maven
3 2 (15.38%) Selenium
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Analyst
1 9 (69.23%) Test Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Test Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Security Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (7.69%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) API Testing
1 10 (76.92%) Privileged Access Management
2 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 9 (69.23%) Identity Access Management
2 9 (69.23%) Test Management
3 8 (61.54%) Cloud Security
3 8 (61.54%) DevSecOps
3 8 (61.54%) Kanban
3 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (61.54%) Scrum
3 8 (61.54%) Security Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
6 2 (15.38%) Document Management
6 2 (15.38%) TDD
6 2 (15.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) CISM
1 8 (61.54%) CISSP
1 8 (61.54%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) GDPR
1 6 (46.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (46.15%) NIST
1 6 (46.15%) PCI DSS
2 4 (30.77%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) CyberArk
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 9 (69.23%) BeyondTrust
2 9 (69.23%) Thycotic
3 8 (61.54%) Google
4 1 (7.69%) Genesys