Component Testing Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Component Testing
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Component Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.25% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 351 196 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 88.86% 90.32% 86.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 107 95
10th Percentile £208 £303 £235
25th Percentile £364 £357 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -7.22% -11.82%
75th Percentile £521 £588 £588
90th Percentile £584 £650 £718
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 14
10th Percentile £17.88 £13.75 £24.73
25th Percentile £40.25 £14.71 £46.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £16.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +228.13% -66.32% +111.11%
75th Percentile £57.50 £18.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £19.75 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £52.50 £16.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year +228.13% - -28.89%

Component Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Component Testing job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Component Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Component Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Component Testing

Component Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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