Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 49 56
Rank change year-on-year -56 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 2 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.17% 0.26% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.28% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £491 - £375
25th Percentile £495 - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +9.09% +62.96%
75th Percentile £552 - £625
90th Percentile £558 - £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -

All Process & 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 1,036 356 399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 90.32% 93.93% 88.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 225 240
10th Percentile £363 £224 £360
25th Percentile £421 £381 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £555 £575 £588
90th Percentile £669 £647 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 14
10th Percentile £15.28 - £10.90
25th Percentile £15.34 £18.10 £12.64
Median hourly rate £19.34 £18.51 £17.62
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% +5.08% +65.71%
75th Percentile £24.29 £18.87 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

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 22 May 2026. 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 -56 2 £522 -13.00% 3
Unit Testing
Yorkshire

Unit 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 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Low-Code
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Robotic Process Automation
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GRC
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Sitecore