Unit Testing Contracts in South Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Unit Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unit 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 47 50 56
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 1 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.27% 1.31% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 1.47% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £375 -
25th Percentile - £419 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £338
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +62.96% -18.18%
75th Percentile - £625 £356
90th Percentile - £650 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Unit 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%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in South Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in South Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in South Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in South Yorkshire

Unit 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 Unit 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 0 1 £600 +9.09% 14
Unit Testing
Yorkshire

Unit 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet