Unit Testing Contracts in Bristol

Unit Testing
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Unit Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unit Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 69 65
Rank change year-on-year +20 -4 +12
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 6 5 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.12% 0.47% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 0.57% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 23
10th Percentile - - £433
25th Percentile £575 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £400 £630
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -36.51% +80.00%
75th Percentile £625 - £663
90th Percentile - - £685
South West median daily rate £613 £650 £620
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.90% +45.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £55.13 - -
25th Percentile £59.06 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £64.06 - -
90th Percentile £64.63 - -
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 493 879 1,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.81% 83.16% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 484 750
10th Percentile £222 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £567 £602 £631
90th Percentile £657 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 184 220
10th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £42.51 £45.00 £9.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +36.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £83.88
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Bristol

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Bristol

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Bristol

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (16.67%) Appian
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Military
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Financial Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Financials Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Oracle Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Appian Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Integration Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
1 4 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Twin
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Workshops
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Synthetic Environment
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) C++
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft