Component Testing Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Component Testing
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire 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 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Component Testing 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.81% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% - -
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 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £447 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 422 130 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 85.77% 94.20% 57.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 83 30
10th Percentile £400 £240 £292
25th Percentile £429 £365 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £410
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +15.85% -24.07%
75th Percentile £537 £522 £490
90th Percentile £566 £567 £534
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £22.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% +16.89% -71.59%
75th Percentile - £17.89 -
90th Percentile - £21.32 £12.20
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £20.12 £23.83
% change year-on-year +6.66% -15.55% +34.60%

Component Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Component Testing job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Component Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Component Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Component Testing

Component Testing
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire 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
Telford - 4 £447 - 1
Component Testing
West Midlands

Component Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Pentaho
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Gatling
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) QA Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) OWASP
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) System Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kibana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Informatica
1 3 (75.00%) Talend
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (25.00%) PagerDuty
3 1 (25.00%) Sage
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk