Component Testing Contracts

Component Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 23 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 682 815
Rank change year-on-year +103 +133 -111
Contract jobs citing Component Testing 5 15 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.027% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.030% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 12
10th Percentile £480 £508 £408
25th Percentile £505 £523 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +40.00% +23.46%
75th Percentile £533 £834 -
90th Percentile £548 £863 £568
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £443
% change year-on-year +5.00% +12.99% +4.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Component Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Component Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Component Testing in the UK

Component Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Component Testing in the UK

Component Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Component Testing in the UK

Component Testing
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 23 June 2024. 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
UK excluding London +31 4 £525 +5.00% 6
England +75 3 £525 -25.00% 8
Scotland - 2 £539 -
South East - 2 £525 - 1
Work from Home +115 1 £525 +1.94% 1
London +71 1 £475 -32.14% 2

Component Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior .NET Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Development Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Software Development Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (40.00%) Entity Framework
1 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Equities
1 2 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Burndown Charts
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
3 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (40.00%) SOLID
3 2 (40.00%) Test Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) ISEB
2 2 (40.00%) ISEB Practitioner
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) PMO
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft