Unit Testing Contracts in the North West

Unit Testing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 105 90 111
Rank change year-on-year -15 +21 +2
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 15 47 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.76% 1.71% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.98% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 39 32
10th Percentile £358 £362 £418
25th Percentile £406 £431 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% -5.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £582 £538 £650
90th Percentile £638 £640 £680
England median daily rate £550 £550 £595
% change year-on-year - -7.56% +8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.80
Median hourly rate - - £40.59
75th Percentile - - £43.39
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the North West

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the North West

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the North West

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the North West

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester -16 6 £463 -6.57% 42
Cheshire -2 3 £358 +15.11% 13
Merseyside +5 2 £444 -19.32% 2
Cumbria - 2 £700 -
Lancashire +2 1 £518 -33.91% 16
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (6.67%) Camunda
1 1 (6.67%) CICS
1 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (13.33%) SAP PP
3 1 (6.67%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) ObjectStore
2 1 (6.67%) DB2
2 1 (6.67%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (6.67%) GIS
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) Jasmine
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Mocha
3 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Consultant
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) SAP PP Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.67%) ABAP Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (6.67%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) RESTful
2 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
2 4 (26.67%) React
3 3 (20.00%) Node.js
4 2 (13.33%) CSS
4 2 (13.33%) HTML
4 2 (13.33%) Jest
4 2 (13.33%) Spring
5 1 (6.67%) .NET
5 1 (6.67%) Hibernate
5 1 (6.67%) jBPM
5 1 (6.67%) JPA
5 1 (6.67%) JSON
5 1 (6.67%) Middleware
5 1 (6.67%) Nunjucks
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (6.67%) SAPUI5
5 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (6.67%) Swagger
5 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
1 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (6.67%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (20.00%) Digital Twin
4 3 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (13.33%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (13.33%) OO
5 2 (13.33%) OOP
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) RBAC
5 2 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) Python
4 1 (6.67%) ABAP
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) COBOL
4 1 (6.67%) JCL
4 1 (6.67%) REXX
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (13.33%) QA
1 2 (13.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Fujitsu
3 1 (6.67%) Ariba
3 1 (6.67%) TIBCO