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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 115 102
Rank change year-on-year -33 -13 +4
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 29 17 12
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.82% 0.90% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 1.00% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 9 11
10th Percentile £460 £388 £490
25th Percentile £473 £465 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £612
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -15.85% +11.27%
75th Percentile £581 £520 £731
90th Percentile £714 £600 -
England median daily rate £500 £468 £550
% change year-on-year +6.95% -15.00% -8.33%

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 3,007 1,695 1,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.73% 89.92% 83.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,847 1,077 996
10th Percentile £316 £257 £231
25th Percentile £413 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.29% +3.40%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £683 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 115 40
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.66
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.30 £15.44
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.05 £23.89
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% -3.52% -13.13%
75th Percentile £43.96 £32.44 £35.00
90th Percentile £60.87 £50.00 £52.78
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -33 18 £490 +13.95% 3
Birmingham +1 2 £550 -8.33% 6
Warwickshire -26 2 £588 +14.08% 3
Coventry -19 1 £350 +21.74% 2
Staffordshire - 1 £550 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 5 (17.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (6.90%) SAP EWM
2 2 (6.90%) SAP MM
2 2 (6.90%) SAP PP
2 2 (6.90%) SAP SD
3 1 (3.45%) SAP LE
3 1 (3.45%) SAP QM
3 1 (3.45%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) AWS
2 2 (6.90%) Azure
3 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.45%) SAP HANA
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) GitLab
1 7 (24.14%) JUnit
2 6 (20.69%) Git
2 6 (20.69%) Selenium
3 5 (17.24%) Cucumber
3 5 (17.24%) Gatling
4 2 (6.90%) Maven
5 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.45%) Eclipse
5 1 (3.45%) Hudson
5 1 (3.45%) IntelliJ
5 1 (3.45%) JMeter
5 1 (3.45%) Mockito
5 1 (3.45%) NUnit
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (3.45%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (3.45%) SoapUI
5 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.45%) TestNG
5 1 (3.45%) TestRail
General
1 20 (68.97%) Social Skills
2 13 (44.83%) Public Sector
3 11 (37.93%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (17.24%) Finance
5 4 (13.79%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.45%) Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) Consultant
2 6 (20.69%) ServiceNow Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Quality Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) SAP Consultant
4 4 (13.79%) Scala Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Scala Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) SAP EWM Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.45%) .NET Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Lead Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Lead Software Developer
7 1 (3.45%) QA Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Systems Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Systems Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) REST
2 9 (31.03%) SOAP
3 8 (27.59%) .NET
4 6 (20.69%) Playwright
5 5 (17.24%) JSON
5 5 (17.24%) Play Framework
5 5 (17.24%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (17.24%) React
5 5 (17.24%) Spring
6 2 (6.90%) .NET Core
6 2 (6.90%) .NET Framework
6 2 (6.90%) CSS
6 2 (6.90%) HTML
6 2 (6.90%) SAP Core Interface
6 2 (6.90%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (6.90%) Web Services
6 2 (6.90%) XML
7 1 (3.45%) IDoc
7 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
7 1 (3.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) LIMS
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
1 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) Agile
2 19 (65.52%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (55.17%) Integration Testing
4 14 (48.28%) CI/CD
5 12 (41.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (41.38%) User Acceptance Testing
6 10 (34.48%) TDD
7 9 (31.03%) Pair Programming
7 9 (31.03%) Test Automation
7 9 (31.03%) Translating Business Requirements
8 8 (27.59%) System Integration Testing
9 7 (24.14%) Case Management
9 7 (24.14%) Generative AI
9 7 (24.14%) SDLC
9 7 (24.14%) Sprint Planning
9 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (20.69%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (20.69%) Scrum
10 6 (20.69%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) JavaScript
2 8 (27.59%) Java
3 6 (20.69%) SQL
4 5 (17.24%) Scala
5 2 (6.90%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) Bicep
6 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.45%) Python
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 6 (20.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) QA
2 6 (20.69%) Accessibility
3 5 (17.24%) WCAG
4 1 (3.45%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (3.45%) GMP
4 1 (3.45%) GxP
4 1 (3.45%) HL7
4 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Oracle
2 6 (20.69%) ServiceNow
3 5 (17.24%) SAP
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.45%) IFS
5 1 (3.45%) Pega
5 1 (3.45%) Talend