Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in Telford

Unit Testing
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 2.88% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £472 - -
25th Percentile £557 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £604 - -
75th Percentile £604 - -
90th Percentile £605 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £604 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 233 82 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 95.88% 84.54% 87.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 68 17
10th Percentile £360 £307 £361
25th Percentile £443 £358 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £481 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% +0.10% -10.70%
75th Percentile £538 £520 £538
90th Percentile £559 £567 £588
Shropshire median daily rate £515 £477 £475
% change year-on-year +7.97% +0.42% -11.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £31.31 £23.60 -
% change year-on-year +32.65% - -

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in Telford

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Telford over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Telford

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 1 (14.29%) Gatling
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Scala Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Play Framework
2 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
2 1 (14.29%) Java EE
2 1 (14.29%) Playwright
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Batch
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) Integration Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Application Security
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (57.14%) User Stories
4 3 (42.86%) Business Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Microservices
4 3 (42.86%) Pair Programming
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
4 3 (42.86%) TDD
4 3 (42.86%) User Research
5 2 (28.57%) System Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 1 (14.29%) OWASP
6 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Scala
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Groovy
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kibana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) PagerDuty
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk