Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Unit Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 61 61
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 +19
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 3 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.39% 0.63% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.70% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile - - £399
25th Percentile - £694 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £713 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +29.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile - £731 £588
90th Percentile - - £600
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £662 £450
% change year-on-year -21.48% +47.17% -13.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 662 568 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.11% 89.17% 85.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 375 379
10th Percentile £248 £200 £283
25th Percentile £400 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% -2.56%
75th Percentile £582 £638 £588
90th Percentile £638 £738 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 15 26
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £13.69
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.25 £27.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% -36.84% +242.34%
75th Percentile £23.50 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £56.45 £69.38
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £21.59 £28.34
% change year-on-year -6.21% -23.80% +63.62%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unit Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Unit Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Unit Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Marketing
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Consultant
1 3 (100.00%) Pega Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Pega Consultant
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 3 (100.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 3 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Personalization
1 3 (100.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Pega