Unit Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Unit Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 131 131
Rank change year-on-year +31 0 -16
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 17 4 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.86% 0.15% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.18% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 21
10th Percentile £286 £329 £300
25th Percentile £360 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -18.18% +11.11%
75th Percentile £498 £475 £595
90th Percentile £545 - £618
England median daily rate £525 £543 £580
% change year-on-year -3.23% -6.47% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47.50 - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
75th Percentile £52.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +3.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,749 2,203 2,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.29% 81.87% 87.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,485 2,002
10th Percentile £200 £233 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -6.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £551 £595 £597
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 170 101
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.60 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.75 £18.00 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -19.68% +28.06%
75th Percentile £25.15 £32.53 £40.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £57.50
England median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands +24 14 £463 +54.17% 104
West Midlands +14 3 £461 +2.50% 119
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (5.88%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Exstream
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.88%) npm
4 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) Aerospike
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.88%) MariaDB
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
2 2 (11.76%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (5.88%) Eclipse
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Grunt
3 1 (5.88%) gulp
3 1 (5.88%) IntelliJ
3 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) Maven
3 1 (5.88%) NetBeans
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Automotive
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Android Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (11.76%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Design Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Junior
4 1 (5.88%) Junior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Android Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Design Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Android Jetpack
1 6 (35.29%) Jetpack Compose
2 5 (29.41%) RESTful
3 3 (17.65%) CSS
3 3 (17.65%) HTML
3 3 (17.65%) Kafka
4 2 (11.76%) J2EE
4 2 (11.76%) JSON
4 2 (11.76%) Next.js
4 2 (11.76%) React
4 2 (11.76%) REST
4 2 (11.76%) Spring
4 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.88%) Ajax
5 1 (5.88%) Hibernate
5 1 (5.88%) JDBC
5 1 (5.88%) jQuery
5 1 (5.88%) POSIX
5 1 (5.88%) XHR
5 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) IoT
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Android
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Agile
2 9 (52.94%) Test Automation
3 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
3 8 (47.06%) DevOps
3 8 (47.06%) TDD
4 7 (41.18%) Scrum
5 6 (35.29%) Android Development
5 6 (35.29%) Mentoring
5 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) API Integration
6 4 (23.53%) Code Quality
6 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (23.53%) Microservices
6 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) Document Composition
7 3 (17.65%) Front End Development
7 3 (17.65%) Integration Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Secure Coding
8 2 (11.76%) Continuous Delivery
8 2 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Java
2 6 (35.29%) Kotlin
3 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) C
4 1 (5.88%) C++
4 1 (5.88%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) IEC 61508
2 1 (5.88%) MISRA
2 1 (5.88%) MISRA C
2 1 (5.88%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) OpenText
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Checkmarx
3 1 (5.88%) Perforce
3 1 (5.88%) QNX
3 1 (5.88%) Solace
3 1 (5.88%) Veracode