Component Testing Contracts in the North West

Component Testing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Component Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Component Testing over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Component Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.051% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
England median daily rate £475 £850 £650
% change year-on-year -44.12% +30.77% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,771 2,300 2,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.04% 85.98% 90.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,459 1,950
10th Percentile £300 £311 £313
25th Percentile £388 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £663 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 253 138
10th Percentile £15.23 £10.96 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.74 £13.50 £22.60
Median hourly rate £31.88 £24.19 £35.52
Median % change year-on-year +31.79% -31.89% +54.23%
75th Percentile £63.10 £46.18 £49.24
90th Percentile £85.03 £62.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%

Component Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Component Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Component Testing in the North West

Component Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Component Testing in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Component Testing in the North West

Component Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Cheshire - 1 £375 - 2
Component Testing
England

Component Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SEPA