Component Testing Contract Job Trends in London

Component Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Component Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 386 440
Rank change year-on-year +13 +54 +148
Contract jobs citing Component Testing 2 4 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.015% 0.025% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.028% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 14
10th Percentile £507 £508 £561
25th Percentile £508 £575 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £723 £800
Median % change year-on-year -28.20% -9.69% +60.00%
75th Percentile £533 £820 £859
90th Percentile £536 - £863
England median daily rate £385 £525 £800
% change year-on-year -26.67% -34.38% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,450 14,530 19,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.51% 89.15% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,226 9,664 14,478
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 178 230
10th Percentile £17.01 £17.25 £18.15
25th Percentile £24.94 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.01% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £49.56 £55.00 £63.44
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.88 £76.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.98%

Component Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Component Testing in London

Component Testing
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Component Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Component Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Biometrics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA