Unit Testing Contracts in Wales

Unit Testing
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 37 57
Rank change year-on-year -2 +20 +12
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 4 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.37% 1.77% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 2.25% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £176 £508 £454
25th Percentile £189 £511 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £538 £523
Median % change year-on-year -61.85% +2.92% +74.17%
75th Percentile £285 £550 £585
90th Percentile £414 £551 £594
UK median daily rate £530 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -1.40% -6.52% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 311 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.03% 78.73% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 212 421
10th Percentile £185 £168 £183
25th Percentile £285 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
75th Percentile £525 £571 £573
90th Percentile £625 £667 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Wales

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Wales

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Wales

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Wales

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales region over the 6 months to 1 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
South Wales +4 4 £205 -61.85% 9
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (25.00%) tSQLt
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) CRM Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) FHIR
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) OOD
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Web Development
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Informatics
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) SOLID
3 1 (25.00%) Webhook
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) HL7
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) RedGate