Component Testing Contracts

Component Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Component Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Component Testing over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 674 830
Rank change year-on-year +110 +156 -145
Contract jobs citing Component Testing 6 16 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.028% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.032% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 13
10th Percentile £474 £503 £411
25th Percentile £491 £510 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.34% +17.50% +23.46%
75th Percentile £704 £750 -
90th Percentile £792 £863 £585
UK excluding London median daily rate £539 £430 £450
% change year-on-year +25.23% -4.44% +7.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Component Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

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 23 May 2024.

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 4 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 May 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 +58 4 £539 +25.23% 15
Scotland - 4 £539 -
London +84 2 £663 -5.36% 4
England +81 2 £663 +6.43% 18

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 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) Data Mart
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) JUnit
2 2 (33.33%) Postman
3 1 (16.67%) IntelliJ
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Back Office
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Development Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Development Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Camel
2 2 (33.33%) J2EE
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) PySpark
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) Redux
3 1 (16.67%) Unity DI Container
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Equities
1 2 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) TDD
3 3 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (33.33%) Agile Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Coaching
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Defect Management
4 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Test Management
4 2 (33.33%) Test Planning
4 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) ISEB
2 2 (33.33%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) PMO
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks