Test Management Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Test Management
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Test Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 59 54
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +9
Contract jobs citing Test Management 12 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.84% 0.22% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 0.25% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 2
10th Percentile £338 - £430
25th Percentile £373 £606 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £613 £475
Median % change year-on-year -23.27% +28.95% +8.57%
75th Percentile £525 £619 £513
90th Percentile £530 - £520
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £450 £525
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Test Management 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 618 395 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.79% 87.58% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 207 277
10th Percentile £292 £313 £363
25th Percentile £368 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% -9.57% +15.00%
75th Percentile £543 £589 £675
90th Percentile £620 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 6
10th Percentile £14.77 - £14.63
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.31
Median hourly rate £18.21 £12.83 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.89% -36.64% +20.90%
75th Percentile £18.87 £20.75 £29.13
90th Percentile - £21.80 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +26.51% -12.50% +5.26%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in South Yorkshire

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Test Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Test Management

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 10 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in South Yorkshire

Test Management
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 Management within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 September 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 -7 12 £470 -23.27%
Test Management
Yorkshire

Test Management
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 8 (66.67%) AWS
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
1 8 (66.67%) GCP
Development Applications
1 12 (100.00%) JIRA
2 9 (75.00%) Postman
2 9 (75.00%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Analyst
1 8 (66.67%) Test Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Test Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Migration Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) API Testing
1 9 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
1 9 (75.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 9 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 8 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 8 (66.67%) Kanban
2 8 (66.67%) Scrum
2 8 (66.67%) Security Testing
3 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (41.67%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Epics
5 3 (25.00%) Knowledge Management
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (25.00%) Test Strategy
5 3 (25.00%) Traceability Matrix
5 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (25.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) CISM
1 8 (66.67%) CISSP
1 8 (66.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) GDPR
1 6 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (50.00%) NIST
1 6 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 5 (41.67%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) BeyondTrust
1 9 (75.00%) CyberArk
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 9 (75.00%) Thycotic
2 8 (66.67%) Google