Component Testing Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Component Testing
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Component Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Component Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.43% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate - £513 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 192 117 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 82.40% 83.57% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 62 98
10th Percentile £162 £318 £339
25th Percentile £346 £488 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -4.09% -
75th Percentile £654 £575 £717
90th Percentile £700 £615 £725
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 17 45
10th Percentile £25.15 £24.05 £12.55
25th Percentile £41.94 £30.40 £37.63
Median hourly rate £45.46 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% - +14.63%
75th Percentile £59.63 £51.00 -
90th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £50.00
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £30.40 £32.12
% change year-on-year +37.96% -5.34% -14.13%

Component Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Component Testing job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Component Testing
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 1 February 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
Blackpool - 1 - -
Component Testing
North West

Component Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Serenity BDD
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk