Component Testing Contracts in the South East

Component Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 - 219
Rank change year-on-year - - +41
Contract jobs citing Component Testing 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.100% - 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £529
25th Percentile £713 - £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £738 - £625
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £850 £568
% change year-on-year -44.12% +49.78% +8.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Component Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Component Testing in the South East

Component Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Component Testing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Component Testing in the South East

Component Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Component Testing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Component Testing in the South East

Component Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Sussex - 3 £725 -
Component Testing
England

Component Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Test Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 3 (100.00%) Data-Driven Testing
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Management
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Verification and Validation
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared