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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 56 65
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 +13
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 3 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.35% 0.56% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.62% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - - £416
25th Percentile - £694 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £713 £463
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +54.05% -7.50%
75th Percentile - £731 £494
90th Percentile - - £509
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £490 £450
% change year-on-year +22.45% +8.89% -24.37%
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 735 482 627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 85.96% 89.93% 82.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 339 408
10th Percentile £263 £198 £246
25th Percentile £402 £381 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £461
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +11.17% -7.80%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 14 44
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.62 £13.20
25th Percentile £16.05 £13.14 £17.75
Median hourly rate £17.69 £22.25 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.49% -18.35% +96.40%
75th Percentile £24.29 £30.51 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £45.95 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.76 £18.32 £23.00
% change year-on-year +18.78% -20.35% +29.80%

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