Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Unit Testing
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 17 23
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 +19
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 2 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 1.06% 3.92% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 4.84% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £500 -
25th Percentile - £503 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £534 £300
Median % change year-on-year -15.69% +77.92% -29.41%
75th Percentile - £545 £313
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -16.00% - +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 147 124 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 77.78% 81.05% 81.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 68 111
10th Percentile £165 £313 £306
25th Percentile £303 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +1.01% -10.00%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £650
90th Percentile £715 £613 £745
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £430 £475
% change year-on-year -2.33% -9.47% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 5 9
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.83 £10.77
25th Percentile £16.17 £15.10 £14.75
Median hourly rate £16.35 £32.50 £21.52
Median % change year-on-year -49.69% +51.06% +95.59%
75th Percentile £17.87 £58.75 £88.75
90th Percentile - £93.70 £93.75
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.95 £22.50 £21.52
% change year-on-year -20.24% +4.58% +27.84%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

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

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Nottingham -6 2 £450 -13.88% 5
Unit Testing
East Midlands

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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