Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Unit Testing
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +14
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 3 1 12
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 3.41% 1.41% 8.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 1.56% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 £360 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £370 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -26.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £493 £380 £530
90th Percentile £508 - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £463 £370 £500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -26.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64 64 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 72.73% 90.14% 82.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 44 86
10th Percentile £192 £225 £179
25th Percentile £400 £275 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £433 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% -13.45% +23.46%
75th Percentile £613 £556 £575
90th Percentile £626 £714 £700
Leicestershire median daily rate £425 £425 £475
% change year-on-year - -10.53% +17.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £14.51 - £20.80
25th Percentile £15.51 £21.25 £34.00
Median hourly rate £17.92 £22.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.36% -59.82% -12.16%
75th Percentile £21.09 £23.75 £60.50
90th Percentile £22.53 - £63.20
Leicestershire median hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +4.44% +7.14% -65.00%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unit Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in Leicester

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Unit Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Unit Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 3 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Android Development
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Kotlin