Component Testing Contracts in England

Component Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Component Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Component Testing over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 530 626
Rank change year-on-year +73 +96 +131
Contract jobs citing Component Testing 14 3 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.058% 0.008% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.010% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 13
10th Percentile £395 £540 £502
25th Percentile £430 £656 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £850 £700
Median % change year-on-year -44.12% +21.43% +40.00%
75th Percentile £533 - £750
90th Percentile £597 - £863
UK median daily rate £475 £694 £650
% change year-on-year -31.58% +6.81% +30.00%

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 22,169 31,438 43,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.25% 86.37% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,471 20,622 30,640
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 2,250 1,536
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.96 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Component Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Component Testing in England

Component Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Component Testing in England

Component Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Component Testing in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Component Testing in England

Component Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Component Testing in England

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 20 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
London +59 12 £475 -44.12% 4
North West - 1 £375 - 2
South East - 1 £725 - 9
North of England - 1 £375 - 2
Component Testing
UK

Component Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (35.71%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Cypress.io
2 9 (64.29%) JIRA
3 7 (50.00%) Cucumber
4 5 (35.71%) JMeter
4 5 (35.71%) Postman
5 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (35.71%) Law
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Test Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Tester
2 4 (28.57%) Lead
2 4 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Automation Test Lead
3 3 (21.43%) Automation Tester
3 3 (21.43%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) pytest
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.14%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 6 (42.86%) BDD
3 6 (42.86%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (42.86%) Software Delivery
4 5 (35.71%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (35.71%) Test Scripting
5 4 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Test Strategy
6 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (14.29%) API Integration
7 2 (14.29%) API Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Biometrics
7 2 (14.29%) Performance Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) Accessibility
2 3 (21.43%) QA
2 3 (21.43%) WCAG
3 1 (7.14%) SEPA
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft