Component Testing Job Trends in the South West

Component Testing
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Component Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 - 226
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Component Testing 1 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.009% - 0.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% - 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £56,500
75th Percentile £63,750 - £65,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -47.50% +110.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

Component Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,578 2,912 5,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.60% 81.82% 76.23%
Number of salaries quoted 5,131 1,832 2,848
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

Component Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Component Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Component Testing job vacancy trend in the South West

Component Testing
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Component Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Component Testing

Component Testing
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Component Testing within the South West region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Somerset - 1 £62,500 - 2
Component Testing
England

Component Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
1 1 (100.00%) npm
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Storybook
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG