Component Testing Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Component Testing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Component Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 81 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Component Testing 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.081% 0.19% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.091% 0.21% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £513 -
North West median daily rate - £513 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,094 946 1,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.65% 91.14% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 754 581 980
10th Percentile £303 £294 £312
25th Percentile £370 £395 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £572 £564 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 33 61
10th Percentile £17.20 £15.93 £12.50
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.25 £14.04
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +25.00% -35.80%
75th Percentile £61.25 £33.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £60.00 £78.75
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +33.14% -10.00% -6.42%

Component Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Component Testing job vacancy trend in Manchester

Component Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Component Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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%) SC Cleared
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