Smoke Testing Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Smoke Testing (including Confidence Testing, Sanity Testing)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Smoke Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Smoke Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.18% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £300 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

Smoke 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 480 135 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 85.71% 96.43% 60.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 86 30
10th Percentile £365 £263 £314
25th Percentile £413 £377 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £472 £400
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +18.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £525 £518 £450
90th Percentile £562 £567 £534
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 8
10th Percentile £23.20 - -
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 £11.32
90th Percentile £45.20 £21.32 £14.26
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.01 £18.32 £23.00
% change year-on-year +20.11% -20.35% +29.80%

Smoke Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Smoke Testing job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Smoke 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 Smoke Testing within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 11 March 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 - 1 £300 - 1
Smoke Testing
West Midlands

Smoke 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA