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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 532 587 673
Rank change year-on-year +55 +86 +152
Contract jobs citing Component Testing 12 6 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.014% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.016% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 19
10th Percentile £375 £485 £508
25th Percentile £378 £519 £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% -25.00% +40.00%
75th Percentile £519 - £825
90th Percentile £545 £545 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -28.57% +5.00% +11.73%

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 29,591 36,621 50,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.45% 85.36% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,632 23,386 34,849
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,510 2,453 1,703
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +53.85%
75th Percentile £53.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £38.12 £39.26
% change year-on-year -35.51% -2.91% +83.08%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Component Testing over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 7 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 12 July 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
England +49 11 £430 -18.10% 12
London +33 6 £494 +3.95% 1
UK excluding London +22 5 £375 -28.57% 13
North of England - 3 £375 - 1
North West - 3 £375 - 1
South East +42 2 - - 3
Work from Home +28 2 £475 -9.52% 8

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 4 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (25.00%) Postman
3 2 (16.67%) JMeter
4 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Tester
2 2 (16.67%) Ada Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Ada Software Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Test Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Development Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Development Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) JSON
2 3 (25.00%) pytest
3 1 (8.33%) Matplotlib
3 1 (8.33%) NumPy
3 1 (8.33%) OpenAPI
3 1 (8.33%) Pandas
3 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
3 1 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) scikit-learn
3 1 (8.33%) Seaborn
3 1 (8.33%) Swagger
3 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 3 (25.00%) API Testing
5 3 (25.00%) BDD
5 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (25.00%) Integration Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 3 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 2 (16.67%) Biometrics
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Software Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) Ada
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
1 3 (25.00%) SEPA
2 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (8.33%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Progress