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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 33 49
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 +16
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 7 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.03% 2.48% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 3.26% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 7
10th Percentile £448 £337 £439
25th Percentile £481 £483 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £526 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +0.10% +85.84%
75th Percentile £528 £545 £590
90th Percentile £576 £550 £615
UK median daily rate £468 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -10.95% -8.70% +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 296 307 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 85.80% 75.99% 87.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 176 323
10th Percentile £190 £143 £180
25th Percentile £285 £209 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £488 £544 £588
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% 0.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 51 21
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.20 -
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.52 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.50 £22.50 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +15.44% +8.28%
75th Percentile £25.15 £48.13 £26.50
90th Percentile - £53.75 £50.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.70%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 6 £509 -3.14% 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 2 (28.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (14.29%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (14.29%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Cypress.io
1 3 (42.86%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) CRM Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) .NET Core
2 3 (42.86%) Jest
2 3 (42.86%) Next.js
2 3 (42.86%) React
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 2 (28.57%) Entity Framework
3 2 (28.57%) Spring
3 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 2 (28.57%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) ODBC
4 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Client/Server
2 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) Code Quality
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Case Management
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Front End Development
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) API Design
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) CRM
4 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
1 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) VB
3 1 (14.29%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
2 2 (28.57%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) InterSystems