Component Testing Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Component Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 162 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Component Testing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.065% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £555 £525 £825
% change year-on-year +5.71% -36.36% +35.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,688 2,125 2,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.96% 84.70% 84.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 1,322 1,557
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £373 £375 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £689
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 80 104
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.04
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.94 £17.41
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.25 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.19% -6.51% +41.41%
75th Percentile £25.15 £34.06 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Component Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Component Testing job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Component Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Component Testing

Component Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Component Testing

Component Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands - 2 - -
Component Testing
England

Component Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) Jest
2 1 (50.00%) Material-UI
2 1 (50.00%) Next.js
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Sass
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Batch
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (50.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Progressive Enhancement
2 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) PagerDuty
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk