Unit Testing Contracts in Manchester

Unit Testing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 73 57 92
Rank change year-on-year -16 +35 +4
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 6 39 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.65% 2.57% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 2.95% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 32 17
10th Percentile £426 £426 £459
25th Percentile £456 £431 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £495 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% -23.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £538 -
90th Percentile - £550 £665
North West median daily rate £463 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -6.57% -5.71% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Manchester

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Manchester

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Manchester

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Manchester

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (16.67%) SAP MM
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) ObjectStore
2 1 (16.67%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (16.67%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jasmine
2 1 (16.67%) Mocha
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Consultant
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (50.00%) React
1 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) Jest
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Analytics
1 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (50.00%) Digital Twin
1 3 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) API Design
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) OO
2 2 (33.33%) OOP
2 2 (33.33%) RBAC
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Fujitsu
2 1 (16.67%) SAP