Unit Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Unit Testing
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 136 137
Rank change year-on-year +16 +1 -32
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 10 30 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.37% 0.86% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.98% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 49
10th Percentile £358 £405 £360
25th Percentile £406 £464 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +6.06% +19.64%
75th Percentile £475 £595 £540
90th Percentile £525 £596 £591
England median daily rate £538 £595 £550
% change year-on-year -9.66% +8.18% +7.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,238 3,065 4,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.07% 88.30% 88.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,495 2,136 3,342
10th Percentile £233 £250 £233
25th Percentile £356 £370 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 122 155
10th Percentile £11.09 £11.82 £10.20
25th Percentile £13.96 £15.02 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.47 £22.00
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.88 £33.30
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the Midlands

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
West Midlands +22 7 £450 -18.18% 20
East Midlands +14 3 £500 +5.26% 14
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (10.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Azure App Service
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (10.00%) Boomi
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) NUnit
2 3 (30.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (10.00%) Electronics
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (10.00%) Marketing
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (20.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Angular Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (40.00%) Entity Framework
3 3 (30.00%) ADO
3 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (30.00%) ARM Templates
3 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 3 (30.00%) Castle Windsor
3 3 (30.00%) CSS
3 3 (30.00%) HTML
3 3 (30.00%) NHibernate
3 3 (30.00%) Razor View Engine
3 3 (30.00%) WCF
4 2 (20.00%) CSS3
4 2 (20.00%) jQuery
4 2 (20.00%) Laravel
4 2 (20.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (20.00%) XML
4 2 (20.00%) Yii
5 1 (10.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Dependency Injection
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
1 4 (40.00%) MVC
2 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (10.00%) API Management
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Data Development
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (10.00%) ETL
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Bicep
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow