Component Testing Contract Job Trends in England

Component Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Component Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 490 564
Rank change year-on-year -43 +74 +168
Contract jobs citing Component Testing 11 17 7
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.036% 0.056% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.064% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 6
10th Percentile £399 £384 -
25th Percentile £435 £430 £800
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £525 £825
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -36.36% +35.25%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £850
90th Percentile - £771 -
UK median daily rate £555 £525 £800
% change year-on-year +5.71% -34.38% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Component 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,655 26,658 34,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.31% 87.92% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,614 16,424 23,309
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,796 941 1,445
10th Percentile £14.92 £15.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Component Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Component Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Component Testing job vacancy trend in England

Component Testing
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Component Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Component Testing

Component Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Component Testing in England over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Component Testing in England

Component Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Component Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Component Testing

Component Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
London -6 5 £650 +50.99% 2
South East -20 2 - - 2
West Midlands - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - - 1
North West -16 1 £375 -26.83%
North of England -41 1 £375 -26.83%
Component Testing
UK

Component Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) GitHub
2 5 (45.45%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon Cognito
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon S3
3 4 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (36.36%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) Cypress.io
3 1 (9.09%) Gatling
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Ada Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Ada Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) React Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) QA Leader
4 1 (9.09%) QA Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Senior QA Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
4 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) CSS
1 6 (54.55%) Jest
1 6 (54.55%) React
1 6 (54.55%) RESTful
1 6 (54.55%) Sass
2 5 (45.45%) Enzyme
2 5 (45.45%) Node.js
3 3 (27.27%) Playwright
4 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 1 (9.09%) JSON
4 1 (9.09%) Material-UI
4 1 (9.09%) Next.js
4 1 (9.09%) OAuth
4 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
4 1 (9.09%) Spring
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Batch
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 1 (9.09%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (9.09%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Software Engineering
3 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 6 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (54.55%) End-to-End Testing
4 5 (45.45%) BDD
4 5 (45.45%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (45.45%) TDD
4 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
5 4 (36.36%) Design Patterns
5 4 (36.36%) Integration Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
6 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
7 1 (9.09%) Migration
7 1 (9.09%) Operational Acceptance Testing
7 1 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
7 1 (9.09%) Performance Testing
7 1 (9.09%) System Integration Testing
7 1 (9.09%) Test Management
7 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) TypeScript
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 6 (54.55%) SQL
3 5 (45.45%) JSX
4 2 (18.18%) Ada
4 2 (18.18%) Java
5 1 (9.09%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) SEPA
2 1 (9.09%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Kibana
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) PagerDuty
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk