Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Unit Testing
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 22 41
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 +11
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 2 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.06% 2.86% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 3.28% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £281 £339 -
25th Percentile £283 £378 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year -34.86% -12.50% -7.24%
75th Percentile £288 £488 -
90th Percentile £289 - -
South East median daily rate £395 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -36.80% +4.17% -0.50%

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 152 122 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 80.85% 87.14% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 85 229
10th Percentile £170 £194 £250
25th Percentile £206 £358 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £525 £550 £575
90th Percentile £703 £638 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 4
10th Percentile £12.63 - £15.29
25th Percentile £15.00 £27.00 £19.84
Median hourly rate £16.00 £28.00 £35.38
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -20.85% +74.48%
75th Percentile £20.69 £29.00 £53.52
90th Percentile - - £63.45
South East median hourly rate £22.19 £58.38 £53.50
% change year-on-year -61.99% +9.11% +83.79%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unit Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Unit Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Unit Testing

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Unit Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Unit Testing

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 3 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
Burgess Hill -5 2 £285 -21.38%
Unit Testing
South East

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) RAD
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk