Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Unit Testing
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 0.55% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £612
% change year-on-year -2.91% -15.85% +11.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 166 46 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 91.71% 77.97% 73.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 23 46
10th Percentile £178 £140 £128
25th Percentile £263 £174 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £250 £390
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -35.90% -22.00%
75th Percentile £609 £481 £497
90th Percentile £850 £590 £594
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £519
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.66% +3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 4
10th Percentile £13.56 £24.43 -
25th Percentile £17.74 £29.00 £33.93
Median hourly rate £19.41 £30.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year -35.30% -12.96% +25.33%
75th Percentile £21.44 £31.00 £38.44
90th Percentile £42.75 £34.68 £44.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.05 £23.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +21.93% -4.88% -12.07%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

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

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Unit Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 28 September 2026. 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £550 -
Unit Testing
West Midlands

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) IFS Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IFS