Test Analyst Contracts in South Yorkshire

Test Analyst
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Test Analyst daily rate in South Yorkshire is £430, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 July 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
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.17% - 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% - 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £337 - -
25th Percentile £367 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +44.83%
75th Percentile £531 - £538
90th Percentile £563 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £430 £490 £513
% change year-on-year -12.35% -4.39% +34.43%

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 463 434 452
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 88.03% 92.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 262 315
10th Percentile £275 £237 £258
25th Percentile £384 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £663
90th Percentile £625 £612 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 4
10th Percentile - £10.90 £12.95
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.97 £15.88
Median hourly rate £18.35 £14.00 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year +31.09% -25.77% +3.34%
75th Percentile £18.50 £21.75 £22.56
90th Percentile £18.51 £22.00 £22.68
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year +26.51% -14.63% +9.63%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in South Yorkshire

Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Analyst in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Test Analyst in South Yorkshire

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Analyst in South Yorkshire

Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Analyst in South Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Test Analyst in South Yorkshire

Test Analyst
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 Test Analyst within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 July 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 - 6 £430 - 7
Test Analyst
Yorkshire

Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 6 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 6 (100.00%) API Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 5 (83.33%) BeyondTrust
2 5 (83.33%) Thycotic
2 5 (83.33%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (83.33%) GCP
2 5 (83.33%) Kanban
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) SoapUI
2 5 (83.33%) Google
2 5 (83.33%) ISTQB
2 5 (83.33%) JIRA
2 5 (83.33%) Security Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Test Management
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) CISSP
2 5 (83.33%) CISM
2 5 (83.33%) Scrum
2 5 (83.33%) DevSecOps
2 5 (83.33%) Postman
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Cloud Security
3 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (66.67%) NIST
3 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (66.67%) PCI DSS

Test Analyst 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) GCP
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
1 5 (83.33%) Postman
1 5 (83.33%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) API Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 6 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Cloud Security
2 5 (83.33%) DevSecOps
2 5 (83.33%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (83.33%) Kanban
2 5 (83.33%) Scrum
2 5 (83.33%) Security Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Test Management
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Issue Tracking
4 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) CISM
1 5 (83.33%) CISSP
1 5 (83.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) GDPR
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (66.67%) NIST
1 4 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) CyberArk
2 5 (83.33%) BeyondTrust
2 5 (83.33%) Google
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Thycotic