Component Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Component Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Component Testing over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 868 904 1170
Rank change year-on-year +36 +266 -290
Permanent jobs citing Component Testing 16 71 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.071% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.075% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 9 12 32
10th Percentile £46,800 £46,250 -
25th Percentile £47,250 £50,938 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £78,750 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +56.72% +0.50%
75th Percentile £105,000 £90,000 £71,125
90th Percentile - £106,200 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £55,000 £38,250
% change year-on-year +2.73% +43.79% -23.50%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Component Testing in the UK

Component Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Component Testing over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Component Testing in the UK

Component Testing
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Component Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -12 12 £56,500 +2.73% 12
England +26 11 £60,000 -25.00% 16
Work from Home +82 10 £56,500 -28.25%
Scotland -60 5 - -
London +58 4 £100,000 +25.00% 4
West Midlands +1 3 £45,000 - 6
Midlands -19 3 £45,000 - 6
South West - 3 £56,500 - 1
South East - 1 £60,000 - 1

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 3 (18.75%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) SaaS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Bitbucket
1 3 (18.75%) Git
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
1 3 (18.75%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Marketing
2 2 (12.50%) Automotive
3 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Principal Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Principal Software Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Senior Software Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Senior Windows Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Software Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Full Stack Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) C++ Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Rust Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior C++ Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (6.25%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) React Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Svelte
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (6.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Cloud Native
1 5 (31.25%) Product Ownership
1 5 (31.25%) Virtual Team
2 4 (25.00%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
1 5 (31.25%) Mac OS
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile
1 8 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 8 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (31.25%) Analytics
2 5 (31.25%) Computer Security
2 5 (31.25%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 5 (31.25%) Data Science
2 5 (31.25%) Full Stack Development
2 5 (31.25%) Kalman Filter
2 5 (31.25%) Multithreading
2 5 (31.25%) Performance Optimisation
2 5 (31.25%) Reverse Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) Security Analytics
2 5 (31.25%) TDD
2 5 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (31.25%) Threat Analysis
2 5 (31.25%) Threat Detection
2 5 (31.25%) Threat Intelligence
3 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) C
2 3 (18.75%) C++
2 3 (18.75%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) Rust
3 2 (12.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Master's Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Dell
2 3 (18.75%) Atlassian
2 3 (18.75%) Coverity