Unit Testing Contracts in Leeds

Unit Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 45 73
Rank change year-on-year -10 +28 +14
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 8 19 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.41% 2.62% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 3.13% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 8
10th Percentile - £450 £407
25th Percentile £375 £469 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £556
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -1.12% +11.25%
75th Percentile £425 £594 £600
90th Percentile £500 £600 £611
West Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £550 £556
% change year-on-year -27.27% -1.12% +11.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 518 607 1,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 91.36% 83.84% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 396 701
10th Percentile £309 £325 £363
25th Percentile £394 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -8.26% +6.60%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £621 £650 £710
West Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 25 13
10th Percentile £25.15 - £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £12.15 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £12.30 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +140.28% -35.26% -11.11%
75th Percentile £50.48 £19.50 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £33.75 £23.26
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £12.30 £18.50
% change year-on-year +80.00% -33.51% -1.07%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Leeds

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Leeds

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Leeds

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Leeds

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (12.50%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) InVision
1 1 (12.50%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Serverless
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (25.00%) Google Play
3 1 (12.50%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) DocumentDB
1 2 (25.00%) Redis
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Git
2 4 (50.00%) CircleCI
3 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Android Developer
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) iOS Developer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Designer
4 1 (12.50%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
2 3 (37.50%) React
3 2 (25.00%) Android Jetpack
3 2 (25.00%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (25.00%) Kafka
3 2 (25.00%) Node.js
3 2 (25.00%) SwiftUI
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
4 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
4 1 (12.50%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Client/Server
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Android
1 2 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) Customer Experience
1 5 (62.50%) Information Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (50.00%) MVVM
2 4 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) User Experience
3 3 (37.50%) UX Design
4 2 (25.00%) Android Development
4 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (25.00%) ETL
4 2 (25.00%) iOS Development
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) Story Points
4 2 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Kotlin
1 2 (25.00%) Swift
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
1 2 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft