Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in the North West

Unit Testing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 101 112
Rank change year-on-year +15 +11 +23
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 46 24 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.12% 1.00% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 1.19% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 16 23
10th Percentile £358 £375 £483
25th Percentile £375 £415 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £525 £623
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% -15.66% -0.40%
75th Percentile £542 £550 £645
90th Percentile £673 £613 £649
England median daily rate £475 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £40.05
25th Percentile - - £43.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £45.88
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 1,922 2,020 2,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.65% 84.38% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,255 1,207 1,670
10th Percentile £299 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £566 £588 £594
90th Percentile £668 £680 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 134 160
10th Percentile £13.23 £10.97 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.44 £20.13 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.16 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.38% +18.13% +55.32%
75th Percentile £52.50 £55.34 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.87 £70.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.35
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.55% +46.02%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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 3 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the North West

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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 3 September 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
Cheshire +11 29 £421 +35.45% 12
Manchester -5 12 £650 +23.81% 13
Merseyside +7 5 £510 -7.27% 3
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 3 (6.52%) Confluence
2 2 (4.35%) Mule
3 1 (2.17%) Apache
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.17%) Camunda
3 1 (2.17%) CICS
3 1 (2.17%) JBoss
3 1 (2.17%) Mule ESB
3 1 (2.17%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.17%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.17%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) SAP MM
1 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.39%) AWS
1 8 (17.39%) Azure
2 5 (10.87%) npm
3 4 (8.70%) Azure AKS
3 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.52%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.35%) Datadog
5 2 (4.35%) GitHub
5 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) Apache Hive
1 1 (2.17%) Big Data
1 1 (2.17%) DB2
1 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.17%) MariaDB
1 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.17%) MySQL
1 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (50.00%) Git
2 13 (28.26%) Jenkins
3 11 (23.91%) JIRA
3 11 (23.91%) Postman
4 8 (17.39%) Gradle
5 7 (15.22%) JUnit
5 7 (15.22%) SonarQube
5 7 (15.22%) Xcode
6 5 (10.87%) Cypress.io
6 5 (10.87%) Grunt
6 5 (10.87%) gulp
7 4 (8.70%) Artifactory
7 4 (8.70%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket
8 2 (4.35%) SpecFlow
9 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
9 1 (2.17%) Maven
9 1 (2.17%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (32.61%) Banking
2 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
3 9 (19.57%) Finance
4 7 (15.22%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (15.22%) Telecoms
5 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.17%) Electronics
7 1 (2.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (54.35%) Developer
2 9 (19.57%) Java Developer
3 7 (15.22%) Software Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) Help Desk Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) iOS Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Senior
4 6 (13.04%) Senior Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (8.70%) UI Developer
7 3 (6.52%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Tester
8 1 (2.17%) Architect
8 1 (2.17%) Consultant
8 1 (2.17%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Lead Developer
8 1 (2.17%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow Developer
8 1 (2.17%) Software Architect
8 1 (2.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (34.78%) CSS
1 16 (34.78%) HTML
2 14 (30.43%) Spring
3 13 (28.26%) REST
3 13 (28.26%) Spring Boot
4 11 (23.91%) AngularJS
4 11 (23.91%) JSON
4 11 (23.91%) React
5 8 (17.39%) jQuery
6 6 (13.04%) CSS3
6 6 (13.04%) HTML5
6 6 (13.04%) Node.js
7 5 (10.87%) Enzyme
7 5 (10.87%) Jest
7 5 (10.87%) LESS
7 5 (10.87%) Nightwatchjs
7 5 (10.87%) POJO
7 5 (10.87%) Redux
7 5 (10.87%) Sass
7 5 (10.87%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Mobile App
1 7 (15.22%) Mobile Banking
2 6 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (10.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (8.70%) Cloud Native
5 3 (6.52%) Virtual Team
6 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 2 (4.35%) PKI
7 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
7 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (2.17%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Android
1 7 (15.22%) Apple iOS
2 4 (8.70%) Linux
3 2 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (63.04%) Agile
2 22 (47.83%) CI/CD
3 16 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (32.61%) DevOps
5 14 (30.43%) Containerisation
6 13 (28.26%) Scrum
6 13 (28.26%) TDD
7 12 (26.09%) Front End Development
8 9 (19.57%) BDD
8 9 (19.57%) Integration Testing
8 9 (19.57%) ITIL
8 9 (19.57%) ITSM
8 9 (19.57%) Test Automation
9 8 (17.39%) API Development
9 8 (17.39%) Continuous Deployment
9 8 (17.39%) Microservices
9 8 (17.39%) Software Engineering
9 8 (17.39%) User Acceptance Testing
10 7 (15.22%) API Testing
10 7 (15.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 30 (65.22%) Java
2 18 (39.13%) JavaScript
3 11 (23.91%) C++
3 11 (23.91%) Python
4 8 (17.39%) C
5 7 (15.22%) Kotlin
5 7 (15.22%) Objective-C
5 7 (15.22%) Ruby
5 7 (15.22%) Scala
5 7 (15.22%) SQL
5 7 (15.22%) Swift
6 3 (6.52%) Bash
7 2 (4.35%) C#
8 1 (2.17%) COBOL
8 1 (2.17%) JCL
8 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (8.70%) Degree
4 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) Accessibility
2 6 (13.04%) SLA
3 5 (10.87%) ISO 20022
3 5 (10.87%) PSD2
3 5 (10.87%) QA
3 5 (10.87%) SEPA
4 1 (2.17%) IEC 61508
4 1 (2.17%) IEC 62304
4 1 (2.17%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.52%) Ansible
2 3 (6.52%) Podman
2 3 (6.52%) SELinux
2 3 (6.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Oracle
2 5 (10.87%) Perforce
3 4 (8.70%) Atlassian
3 4 (8.70%) SAP
4 3 (6.52%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.17%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.17%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.17%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.17%) Splunk
5 1 (2.17%) TIBCO