Component Testing Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Component Testing
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Component Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Component Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 0.67% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 117 273 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 78.52% 97.50% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 245 162
10th Percentile £341 £297 £341
25th Percentile £384 £350 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £375 £413
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -9.15% -15.59%
75th Percentile £537 £447 £525
90th Percentile £623 £500 £600
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 £393 £420
% change year-on-year +2.29% -6.43% -14.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £15.22 - -
25th Percentile £15.55 - -
Median hourly rate £16.10 £21.39 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.73% - -
75th Percentile £16.65 - -
90th Percentile £16.98 - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £15.00 £21.39 £24.20
% change year-on-year -29.87% -11.61% -43.74%

Component Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Claude Code
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JSON Schema
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus