TestRail Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

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England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring TestRail skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 - 115
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing TestRail 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.095% - 0.052%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.59% - 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £400 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -21.95% -6.82% +4.76%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

TestRail falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 512 190 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.16% 13.87% 10.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 116 144
10th Percentile £350 £393 £260
25th Percentile £408 £425 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +11.11% -16.28%
75th Percentile £525 £540 £536
90th Percentile £575 £643 £572
England median daily rate £500 £500 £531
% change year-on-year - -5.84% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 11
10th Percentile £25.00 - £10.50
25th Percentile £34.54 £56.25 £32.75
Median hourly rate £65.75 £57.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.35% +2.22% +68.49%
75th Percentile £73.25 £58.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.50 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%

TestRail
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TestRail relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

TestRail job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

TestRail
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing TestRail.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing TestRail

TestRail
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TestRail within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Shropshire - 2 £300 - 1
Solihull - 1 - -
TestRail
England

TestRail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) QA Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
1 2 (66.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Test Management
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Defect Management
2 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
3 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Kronos