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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 90 105
Rank change year-on-year -51 +15 +4
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 16 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.57% 0.46% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.50% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 5
10th Percentile £414 £469 £388
25th Percentile £481 £489 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% +8.89% -24.37%
75th Percentile £604 £731 -
90th Percentile £604 - £491
England median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 2,389 1,189 1,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.57% 90.21% 84.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 781 1,080
10th Percentile £305 £200 £274
25th Percentile £402 £397 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £673 £700 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 52 122
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.29 £11.43
25th Percentile £16.18 £14.70 £15.54
Median hourly rate £22.01 £18.13 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.40% -21.17% +29.80%
75th Percentile £28.13 £24.19 £41.44
90th Percentile £57.10 £34.88 £58.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -9.72%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -42 9 £604 +30.59%
Birmingham -32 3 £600 -15.79% 3
Warwickshire - 3 £489 -
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Bitrise
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.25%) Gatling
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Hudson
2 1 (6.25%) JUnit
2 1 (6.25%) Maven
2 1 (6.25%) Mockito
2 1 (6.25%) REST Assured
2 1 (6.25%) Selenium
2 1 (6.25%) XCTest
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (43.75%) Finance
3 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
4 4 (25.00%) Telecoms
5 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (18.75%) Marketing
6 1 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Scala Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Consultant
4 3 (18.75%) Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Pega Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Pega Consultant
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (12.50%) Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Test Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Workday Manager
6 1 (6.25%) iOS Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Payroll Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Play Framework
2 4 (25.00%) REST
3 3 (18.75%) RESTful
3 3 (18.75%) SOAP
3 3 (18.75%) Spring
3 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
4 2 (12.50%) Swagger
5 1 (6.25%) Gherkin
5 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
5 1 (6.25%) Java EE
5 1 (6.25%) JPA
5 1 (6.25%) JSON
5 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
5 1 (6.25%) Playwright
5 1 (6.25%) Spring Batch
5 1 (6.25%) SwiftUI
5 1 (6.25%) UIKit
5 1 (6.25%) Web Services
5 1 (6.25%) WireMock
5 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (18.75%) Taxonomies
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) Integration Testing
2 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (31.25%) Application Security
5 5 (31.25%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (31.25%) DevOps
5 5 (31.25%) Microservices
5 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (25.00%) User Stories
7 3 (18.75%) Customer Engagement
7 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
7 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (18.75%) Predictive Modelling
7 3 (18.75%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Scala
2 4 (25.00%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) Groovy
4 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) HP ALM
2 2 (12.50%) Kibana
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Pega
2 2 (12.50%) HP
2 2 (12.50%) Workday
3 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
3 1 (6.25%) IFS
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) PagerDuty
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk