Component Testing Contracts

Component Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Component Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Component Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 706 821
Rank change year-on-year +120 +115 -164
Contract jobs citing Component Testing 12 13 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.022% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.024% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 11
10th Percentile £453 £501 £406
25th Percentile £462 £508 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £568 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.93% +13.50% +23.46%
75th Percentile £631 £750 £588
90th Percentile £850 - £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £535 £500
% change year-on-year -2.80% +7.00% +19.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Component Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Component Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Component Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Component Testing in the UK

Component Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Component Testing.

Daily rate trend for Component Testing in the UK

Component Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Component Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Component Testing in the UK

Component Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Component Testing.

Hourly rate trend for Component Testing in the UK

Component Testing
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Component Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +68 9 £520 -2.80% 5
Scotland - 9 £520 -
England +118 3 £850 +49.78% 8
London +97 3 £850 +21.43% 2

Component Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (41.67%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (16.67%) Data Mart
1 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (16.67%) Delta Lake
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 2 (16.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) JIRA
2 6 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 6 (50.00%) JUnit
3 5 (41.67%) Git
3 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (41.67%) Postman
4 1 (8.33%) IntelliJ
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Back Office
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
1 6 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Test Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Development Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) Kafka
2 7 (58.33%) J2EE
2 7 (58.33%) REST
2 7 (58.33%) Spring
3 6 (50.00%) Apache Camel
4 5 (41.67%) Spring Boot
5 2 (16.67%) .NET
5 2 (16.67%) PySpark
5 2 (16.67%) Unity DI Container
6 1 (8.33%) CSS
6 1 (8.33%) React
6 1 (8.33%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Equities
1 2 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (16.67%) Market Risk
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (75.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 8 (66.67%) TDD
4 7 (58.33%) Coaching
4 7 (58.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (58.33%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (58.33%) Scenario Testing
5 4 (33.33%) DevOps
5 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
6 2 (16.67%) Change Control
6 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Data Mapping
6 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 2 (16.67%) ETL
6 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Test Management
6 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
6 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Java
2 8 (66.67%) SQL
3 6 (50.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (16.67%) Python
5 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) ISEB
2 2 (16.67%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) PMO
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Databricks