Unit Testing Contracts in South Wales

Unit Testing
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 33 47
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 +17
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 6 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.38% 2.64% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 3.28% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 5
10th Percentile £444 £337 £430
25th Percentile £472 £483 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £526 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.14% +0.10% +85.84%
75th Percentile £526 £545 £600
90th Percentile £528 £550 £623
Wales median daily rate £518 £526 £525
% change year-on-year -1.52% +0.10% +85.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 226 274 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 89.68% 80.35% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 161 281
10th Percentile £190 £143 £190
25th Percentile £285 £200 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -17.50% -4.60%
75th Percentile £488 £544 £600
90th Percentile £650 £588 £650
Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 40 20
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 -
25th Percentile £13.94 £19.81 £16.98
Median hourly rate £15.50 £25.09 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.22% +19.50% +5.45%
75th Percentile £20.75 £47.81 £30.50
90th Percentile £22.21 £53.88 £50.14
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £22.50 £19.49
% change year-on-year -8.89% +15.44% +8.28%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in South Wales

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in South Wales

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in South Wales

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
Cardiff +4 6 £509 -3.14% 7
Unit Testing
Wales

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (50.00%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) CRM Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (50.00%) Jest
2 3 (50.00%) Next.js
2 3 (50.00%) React
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (33.33%) Entity Framework
3 2 (33.33%) Spring
3 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Code Quality
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Case Management
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) API Design
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Kanban
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft