Unit Testing Contracts in Chester

Unit Testing
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 4.05% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £531 - -
25th Percentile £590 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £716 - -
75th Percentile £739 - -
90th Percentile £753 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £401 £311 -
% change year-on-year +28.86% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60 41 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 81.08% 77.36% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 49
10th Percentile £325 £450 £288
25th Percentile £475 £542 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £618 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +23.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £718 £738 £580
90th Percentile £798 - £668
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.89% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 15
10th Percentile £22.67 £31.20 £21.95
25th Percentile £33.40 - £30.54
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +6.06% +51.52%
75th Percentile - £47.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £73.20 - £38.01
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -8.57% +14.60% +45.43%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Chester

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Chester

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Chester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Chester over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Chester

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) Mule
1 1 (33.33%) Mule ESB
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) J2EE
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Inventory Management
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (66.67%) Logistics
2 2 (66.67%) Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) AppDynamics
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk