Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in the North East

Unit Testing
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 37 27
Rank change year-on-year -1 -10 +28
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.29% 1.04% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.13% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £540
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.00%
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - -
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
75th Percentile £51.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 266 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 84.19% 92.04% 86.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 98 158
10th Percentile £188 £321 £313
25th Percentile £369 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £691 £650
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 35 11
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +48.85% +14.29%
75th Percentile £20.63 £46.18 £39.97
90th Percentile £32.93 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +28.57%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in the North East

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Unit Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Unit Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Tyne and Wear - 3 £550 - 6
Durham +4 1 - -
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Appium
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Mocha
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer in Test
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) HTML CSS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) HTML Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior JavaScript Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Open Source Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) Jest
1 1 (25.00%) JPA
1 1 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (25.00%) Next.js
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (25.00%) Quarkus
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) SDET
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) SOLID
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Review
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat