Component Testing Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Component Testing
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 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 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Component Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.38% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £402 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 198 295 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 75.00% 96.09% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 263 179
10th Percentile £275 £302 £340
25th Percentile £375 £350 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £393 £420
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -6.43% -14.11%
75th Percentile £528 £450 £510
90th Percentile £600 £537 £600
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £420 £445
% change year-on-year +13.10% -5.62% -9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.56 - £23.10
Median hourly rate £15.00 £21.39 £24.20
Median % change year-on-year -29.87% -11.61% -43.74%
75th Percentile £21.22 - £25.30
90th Percentile £42.24 £41.56 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.30% -16.13% -

Component Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Component Testing job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Component Testing
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Northampton - 1 £402 -
Component Testing
East Midlands

Component Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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