Unit Testing Contracts in Birmingham

Unit Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Unit Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unit Testing over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 74 84
Rank change year-on-year +13 +10 -25
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 4 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.52% 0.44% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.50% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 8
10th Percentile £410 - £383
25th Percentile £416 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% - +23.72%
75th Percentile £475 £531 £567
90th Percentile - £539 £748
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £550 £495
% change year-on-year -18.18% +11.11% +17.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Unit 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 advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 636 806 1,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.36% 88.47% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 541 898
10th Percentile £245 £263 £213
25th Percentile £363 £388 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £593
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 24
10th Percentile £13.20 £11.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £13.94
Median hourly rate £27.25 £15.00 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +81.67% -12.99% -4.22%
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.50 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £71.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.66
% change year-on-year +26.98% +6.35% -4.79%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Birmingham

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Birmingham

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Birmingham

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (25.00%) Boomi
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
1 1 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Angular Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
2 1 (25.00%) Vue
2 1 (25.00%) WSDL
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) XSD
2 1 (25.00%) XSLT
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) API Management
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Data Development
2 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Groovy
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow