Unit Testing Contracts in Cardiff

Unit Testing
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 30 28
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +22
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 6 9 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.08% 3.61% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.43% 4.81% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 4
10th Percentile £444 £337 £426
25th Percentile £472 £483 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £526 £494
Median % change year-on-year -3.14% +6.43% -
75th Percentile £526 £545 £553
90th Percentile £528 £550 £581
South Wales median daily rate £509 £526 £525
% change year-on-year -3.14% +0.10% +275.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 175 187 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 89.74% 75.10% 90.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 138 155
10th Percentile £226 £143 £190
25th Percentile £303 £209 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £575
90th Percentile £660 £600 £625
South Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £500
% change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 7
10th Percentile £12.21 - £19.55
25th Percentile - £15.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £13.08 £18.57 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.56% -25.72% +31.58%
75th Percentile £17.00 £25.60 £26.25
90th Percentile £24.64 - £32.90
South Wales median hourly rate £15.50 £25.18 £19.49
% change year-on-year -38.44% +29.19% -2.11%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Cardiff

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Cardiff

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 2 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (50.00%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) CRM Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (50.00%) Jest
2 3 (50.00%) Next.js
2 3 (50.00%) React
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (33.33%) Entity Framework
3 2 (33.33%) Spring
3 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Code Quality
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Case Management
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) API Design
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) CRM
4 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft