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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 102 100
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 +18
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 24 12 20
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.11% 0.63% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 0.75% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 12
10th Percentile £412 £490 £389
25th Percentile £465 - £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £612 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.20% +36.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £731 £556
90th Percentile £604 - £598
England median daily rate £498 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.48% -4.17% -

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 1,922 1,596 1,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.27% 83.60% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,220 994 1,115
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £715
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 53 51
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.26 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £22.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +41.08%
75th Percentile £30.22 £33.93 £52.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £49.75 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% -21.42% +26.76%

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 - 9 £604 - 4
Birmingham -7 4 £600 -15.79% 2
Coventry - 1 £288 - 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 2 (8.33%) Workday HCM
2 1 (4.17%) SAP CO
2 1 (4.17%) SAP FI
2 1 (4.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) GitLab
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.17%) Gatling
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) JUnit
2 1 (4.17%) Maven
2 1 (4.17%) Mockito
2 1 (4.17%) NUnit
2 1 (4.17%) REST Assured
2 1 (4.17%) Selenium
General
1 16 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (29.17%) Finance
3 7 (29.17%) Public Sector
4 4 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 3 (12.50%) Marketing
6 1 (4.17%) Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Scala Engineer
1 5 (20.83%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Pega Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Pega Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) CyberArk Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Test Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Workday Manager
5 1 (4.17%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) QA Leader
5 1 (4.17%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) SAP FI Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) Play Framework
2 4 (16.67%) REST
3 3 (12.50%) RESTful
3 3 (12.50%) SOAP
3 3 (12.50%) Spring
3 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 2 (8.33%) Swagger
5 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (4.17%) Entity Framework
5 1 (4.17%) Gherkin
5 1 (4.17%) Java EE
5 1 (4.17%) JPA
5 1 (4.17%) JSON
5 1 (4.17%) OpenAPI
5 1 (4.17%) Playwright
5 1 (4.17%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (4.17%) Spring Batch
5 1 (4.17%) Web Services
5 1 (4.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.50%) Taxonomies
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
1 8 (33.33%) Windows
2 7 (29.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (41.67%) Agile
3 9 (37.50%) Integration Testing
4 8 (33.33%) Cloud Security
5 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
5 7 (29.17%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (29.17%) Regulatory Compliance
5 7 (29.17%) SIEM
5 7 (29.17%) SOAR
5 7 (29.17%) Task Automation
6 6 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (20.83%) Application Security
7 5 (20.83%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (20.83%) DevOps
7 5 (20.83%) Microservices
7 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 4 (16.67%) User Stories
8 4 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 8 (33.33%) Python
2 6 (25.00%) Scala
3 4 (16.67%) Java
4 3 (12.50%) SQL
5 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) HP ALM
2 2 (8.33%) Kibana
3 1 (4.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) BeyondTrust
1 8 (33.33%) CyberArk
2 3 (12.50%) Pega
3 2 (8.33%) HP
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Workday
4 1 (4.17%) Alteryx
4 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) PagerDuty
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk