Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Test Strategy
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 56 52
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 7 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.13% 0.66% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.74% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £520 £523 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +36.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile - £568 £450
90th Percentile £605 - £465
Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £531 £517
% change year-on-year -12.90% +2.71% -13.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Test Strategy 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 595 407 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.66% 88.86% 93.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 212 261
10th Percentile £297 £250 £375
25th Percentile £380 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £587
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -11.48% +17.49%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £675
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -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% +14.69%
75th Percentile £20.44 £18.81 £31.25
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.50 £42.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.58 £17.50 £20.25
% change year-on-year +29.00% -13.58% +6.58%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in South Yorkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Test Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Test Strategy

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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 Strategy within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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 -9 7 £525 -3.67% 1
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Yorkshire

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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 (42.86%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
2 3 (42.86%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) Gradle
2 3 (42.86%) HP UFT
2 3 (42.86%) IntelliJ
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) JUnit
2 3 (42.86%) Maven
2 3 (42.86%) Selenium
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Test Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Migration Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Architect
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) BDD
1 3 (42.86%) Code Coverage
1 3 (42.86%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (42.86%) Data Privacy
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Document Management
1 3 (42.86%) Knowledge Management
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
1 3 (42.86%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (42.86%) QA Automation
1 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (42.86%) TDD
1 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
1 3 (42.86%) Test Management
1 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (42.86%) User Stories
1 3 (42.86%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) SAP