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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 98 103
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 12 13 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.65% 0.68% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.83% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 12
10th Percentile £386 £431 £401
25th Percentile £460 £490 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £612 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.30% +11.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £517 £731 £604
90th Percentile £519 - £681
England median daily rate £469 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -14.73% -8.33% +3.45%

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 1,630 1,561 1,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.73% 81.77% 85.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,046 1,005 1,180
10th Percentile £250 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £663 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 40 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.48 £14.42
25th Percentile £16.13 £15.22 £19.56
Median hourly rate £24.34 £24.31 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -11.59% +52.78%
75th Percentile £35.15 £37.63 £44.69
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.45 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 - 8 £515 - 6
Birmingham -6 2 - - 5
Coventry - 1 £288 - 4
Shropshire - 1 £460 - 1
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP CO
1 1 (8.33%) SAP FI
1 1 (8.33%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (8.33%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) NUnit
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Consultant
1 2 (16.67%) CyberArk Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (8.33%) Pega Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Pega Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) SAP CO Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) SAP FI Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
1 1 (8.33%) Entity Framework
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
1 1 (8.33%) Next.js
1 1 (8.33%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (8.33%) React
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (8.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 7 (58.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (66.67%) Cloud Security
3 7 (58.33%) Identity Access Management
3 7 (58.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 7 (58.33%) SIEM
3 7 (58.33%) SOAR
3 7 (58.33%) Task Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Validation
5 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
5 1 (8.33%) Migration
5 1 (8.33%) MVC
5 1 (8.33%) Pair Programming
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (8.33%) TDD
5 1 (8.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) BeyondTrust
1 8 (66.67%) CyberArk
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Alteryx
3 1 (8.33%) Pega
3 1 (8.33%) SAP