Unit Testing Contracts in Wales

Unit Testing
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Unit Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unit Testing over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 58 71
Rank change year-on-year +15 +13 -22
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 5 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.23% 0.62% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 0.72% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £508 £454 -
25th Percentile £510 £459 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £523 £338
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% +54.81% -25.00%
75th Percentile £545 £585 £428
90th Percentile £548 £594 £502
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Unit Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 324 553 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 79.41% 86.27% 83.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 424 610
10th Percentile £171 £181 £200
25th Percentile £316 £333 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £570 £573 £575
90th Percentile £658 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 30 31
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.13 £14.31
25th Percentile £14.78 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.59% -24.74% +31.58%
75th Percentile £51.75 £25.00 £29.25
90th Percentile £86.00 £48.88 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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
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 23 April 2024. 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 +19 5 £526 +0.10% 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Cypress.io
1 4 (80.00%) Storybook
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (20.00%) tSQLt
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior SQL Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Playwright
1 4 (80.00%) Vue
2 1 (20.00%) FHIR
2 1 (20.00%) Laravel
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) NHS
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Front End Development
2 4 (80.00%) Objectives and Key Results
2 4 (80.00%) Project Management
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) HL7
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) RedGate