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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 103 99
Rank change year-on-year -13 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 22 12 19
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.10% 0.64% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.77% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 12
10th Percentile £420 £490 £401
25th Percentile £488 - £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £612 £481
Median % change year-on-year -15.11% +27.17% -9.62%
75th Percentile £601 £731 £581
90th Percentile £604 - £600
England median daily rate £480 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -12.73% -8.33% -

All Process and 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 1,814 1,564 1,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 90.65% 83.01% 84.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,149 988 1,098
10th Percentile £263 £231 £263
25th Percentile £400 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
75th Percentile £588 £614 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 39 57
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.61 £16.28
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.34 £26.13 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% -5.00% +55.19%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £53.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +27.14%

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 29 October 2025.

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 29 October 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
Warwickshire - 10 £515 -
Shropshire - 7 £604 - 3
Birmingham 0 4 £600 -15.79% 4
Coventry - 1 £288 -
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 (9.09%) Workday HCM
2 1 (4.55%) SAP CO
2 1 (4.55%) SAP FI
2 1 (4.55%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.55%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.55%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.55%) Gatling
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) NUnit
2 1 (4.55%) REST Assured
2 1 (4.55%) Selenium
General
1 16 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 10 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Finance
3 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.64%) Marketing
4 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Scala Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Consultant
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Pega Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Pega Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) CyberArk Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Test Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Workday Manager
5 1 (4.55%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Payroll Manager
5 1 (4.55%) SAP CO Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) SAP FI Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) Play Framework
2 3 (13.64%) REST
2 3 (13.64%) SOAP
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (4.55%) Entity Framework
3 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
3 1 (4.55%) Java EE
3 1 (4.55%) Playwright
3 1 (4.55%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (4.55%) RESTful
3 1 (4.55%) Spring
3 1 (4.55%) Spring Batch
3 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.55%) Web Services
3 1 (4.55%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
1 3 (13.64%) Taxonomies
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Linux
1 8 (36.36%) Windows
2 7 (31.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (36.36%) Agile
2 8 (36.36%) Cloud Security
2 8 (36.36%) Integration Testing
3 7 (31.82%) Identity Access Management
3 7 (31.82%) Regulatory Compliance
3 7 (31.82%) SIEM
3 7 (31.82%) SOAR
3 7 (31.82%) Task Automation
4 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 5 (22.73%) Application Security
5 5 (22.73%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (22.73%) DevOps
5 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 4 (18.18%) User Stories
6 4 (18.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) PowerShell
1 8 (36.36%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) Scala
3 2 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) Groovy
4 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (40.91%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) HP ALM
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Kibana
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) BeyondTrust
1 8 (36.36%) CyberArk
2 3 (13.64%) Pega
3 2 (9.09%) HP
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Workday
4 1 (4.55%) Alteryx
4 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) PagerDuty
4 1 (4.55%) SAP
4 1 (4.55%) Splunk