Unit Testing Contracts in the South West

Unit Testing
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 127 89
Rank change year-on-year +24 -38 +39
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 10 29 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.59% 0.89% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.09% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 20 56
10th Percentile £405 £375 £400
25th Percentile £550 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +6.52% +35.29%
75th Percentile £638 £683 £688
90th Percentile £672 £706 £738
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 9
10th Percentile £55.13 - £48.33
25th Percentile £59.06 - £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £64.06 - £71.17
90th Percentile £64.63 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.92% - +2.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,532 2,670 3,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.81% 82.38% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 937 1,703 2,221
10th Percentile £220 £233 £313
25th Percentile £384 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 353 313
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £29.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.45% -4.35% +18.61%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £81.89
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the South West

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the South West

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the South West over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the South West

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the South West

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Bristol +11 6 £600 +50.00% 23
Wiltshire +35 3 £550 +37.50% 13
Cornwall - 1 £625 -
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 (10.00%) Alfresco
1 1 (10.00%) Appian
1 1 (10.00%) Camunda
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) JUnit
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Military
4 1 (10.00%) General Ledger
4 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Senior
4 2 (20.00%) Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Financials Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Oracle Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Appian Developer
5 1 (10.00%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) EDI
2 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) JPA
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) EPoS
3 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
4 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
5 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (10.00%) Digital Twin
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (10.00%) NsoIT
5 1 (10.00%) Observability
5 1 (10.00%) Requirements Workshops
5 1 (10.00%) Sprint Review
5 1 (10.00%) Verification and Validation
5 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C#
1 1 (10.00%) C++
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) ISEB
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) OPNET
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft