Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Unit Testing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 100 114
Rank change year-on-year -56 +14 -2
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 5 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.15% 0.21% 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.23% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £328 £316 -
25th Percentile £350 £368 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.22% +2.22% -24.37%
75th Percentile £550 £467 £475
90th Percentile £565 £468 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £548
% change year-on-year - -8.68% -5.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,742 1,291 1,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.66% 88.61% 81.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,791 818 1,108
10th Percentile £313 £203 £263
25th Percentile £405 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -2.75% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £625
90th Percentile £677 £663 £731
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 72 118
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.11
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.32 £14.31
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.15% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £66.54 £31.19 £40.38
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the West Midlands

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Unit Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
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 Unit Testing within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Warwickshire - 2 £519 -
Coventry -17 1 £350 +21.74%
Birmingham - 1 £550 - 2
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP HR
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Bitrise
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (20.00%) JMeter
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) NUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
1 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (20.00%) TestNG
1 1 (20.00%) TestRail
1 1 (20.00%) XCTest
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Developer
1 1 (20.00%) iOS Software Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
1 1 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) SAP TM
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) SwiftUI
1 1 (20.00%) UIKit
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) API Testing
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Telematics
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) Swift
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft