Unit Testing Contracts in West Sussex

Unit Testing
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex requiring Unit Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unit Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 34 41
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 -6
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 5 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 3.42% 1.92% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 2.10% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £471 - -
25th Percentile £626 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £550 £603
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -8.79% +11.67%
75th Percentile £738 £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £625 £625 £525
% change year-on-year - +19.05% -2.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 127 238 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 86.99% 91.19% 87.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 174 200
10th Percentile £217 £304 £181
25th Percentile £350 £403 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% +4.84%
75th Percentile £538 £523 £600
90th Percentile £632 £588 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 8
10th Percentile £15.39 £13.63 £18.74
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.20 -
Median hourly rate £18.82 £21.50 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year -12.47% -2.98% -59.15%
75th Percentile £36.25 £22.25 £22.40
90th Percentile £81.15 £28.05 £24.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in West Sussex

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in West Sussex.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in West Sussex

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in West Sussex over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in West Sussex

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in West Sussex.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in West Sussex

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Crawley +7 5 £725 +31.82% 12
Unit Testing
South East

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Big Data
2 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (20.00%) DataStage
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata
3 1 (20.00%) OLAP
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Test Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) IoT
2 1 (20.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Component Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (60.00%) Data-Driven Testing
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Test Management
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) Verification and Validation
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cognos
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Talend