Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Unit Testing
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 17 22
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 2 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 1.22% 3.82% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 4.59% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £500 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £523 £300
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% +74.17% -
75th Percentile - £545 £313
90th Percentile - - -
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £450 £534 £300
% change year-on-year -15.69% +77.92% -29.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 125 109 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 76.22% 83.21% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 56 101
10th Percentile £187 £313 £290
25th Percentile £380 £410 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £650
90th Percentile £633 £606 £745
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £463 £500 £481
% change year-on-year -7.50% +3.90% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 2 7
10th Percentile £15.91 £14.70 £10.76
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.76 £12.76
Median hourly rate £16.35 £14.95 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year +9.36% -15.58% +70.78%
75th Percentile £17.87 £15.06 £55.39
90th Percentile - £15.09 £88.75
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £23.80 £21.52
% change year-on-year -31.30% +10.62% +107.47%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Unit Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) ETRM Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Express.js
2 1 (50.00%) MERN Stack
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) pytest
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Streamlit
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) ETRM
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks