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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Component Testing 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £419 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
75th Percentile £481 - -
90th Percentile £488 - -
England median daily rate £460 £500 £850
% change year-on-year -8.00% -41.18% +36.27%

All Process & 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 3,120 1,830 2,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 84.99% 88.88% 83.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,959 1,155 1,514
10th Percentile £263 £208 £215
25th Percentile £400 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +1.05% -1.04%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £689 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 71 174
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.50 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.46 £14.72
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.59 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% -3.59% +33.07%
75th Percentile £25.15 £30.68 £48.44
90th Percentile £30.25 £39.68 £65.25
England median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.26% - -

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 22 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
West Midlands - 5 £447 - 1
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 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Pentaho
2 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Gatling
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) Serenity BDD
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Playwright
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Batch
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (60.00%) ETL
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Coaching
5 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (20.00%) Observability
5 1 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
5 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
5 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Kibana
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Informatica
1 3 (60.00%) Talend
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (20.00%) PagerDuty
3 1 (20.00%) Sage