Unit Testing Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Unit Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 65 63
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +54
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 16 3 14
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.77% 0.42% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 0.48% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 10
10th Percentile £375 - £330
25th Percentile £385 £525 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £438
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +25.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £738
90th Percentile £530 - £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 776 623 1,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.94% 86.77% 90.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 388 689
10th Percentile £286 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £565 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -3.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 22 13
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.27 £13.60
25th Percentile £15.97 £17.43 £16.92
Median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% +71.05% -11.63%
75th Percentile £46.56 £40.81 £21.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £92.60 £29.42
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Unit Testing job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in West Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Leeds +5 16 £400 -27.27% 7
Unit Testing
Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (6.25%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) InVision
1 1 (6.25%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Serverless
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Functions
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (12.50%) Azure AKS
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (12.50%) Google Play
5 2 (12.50%) PaaS
6 1 (6.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) DocumentDB
1 3 (18.75%) Redis
2 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) CircleCI
3 3 (18.75%) SonarQube
4 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 8 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Health Technology
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Developer
3 5 (31.25%) .NET Software Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Android Developer
5 2 (12.50%) iOS Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Designer
6 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Web Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Lead Web Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) UX Designer
6 1 (6.25%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) React
2 8 (50.00%) RESTful
3 5 (31.25%) .NET
4 4 (25.00%) .NET Core
4 4 (25.00%) Kafka
4 4 (25.00%) Node.js
5 3 (18.75%) FHIR
5 3 (18.75%) SwiftUI
6 2 (12.50%) Android Jetpack
6 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 2 (12.50%) ARM Templates
6 2 (12.50%) Blazor
6 2 (12.50%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (12.50%) Spring
7 1 (6.25%) Express.js
7 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
7 1 (6.25%) MERN Stack
7 1 (6.25%) Playwright
7 1 (6.25%) UIKit
7 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Mobile App
2 3 (18.75%) NHS
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Apple iOS
2 2 (12.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 10 (62.50%) Agile
3 8 (50.00%) DevOps
3 8 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 7 (43.75%) Microservices
5 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
6 5 (31.25%) Customer Experience
6 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (31.25%) Information Architecture
6 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (31.25%) MVVM
6 5 (31.25%) Software Architecture
7 4 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (25.00%) Code Quality
7 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (25.00%) Scrum
7 4 (25.00%) Test Strategy
8 3 (18.75%) Story Points
8 3 (18.75%) User Experience
8 3 (18.75%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) C#
2 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (18.75%) Swift
4 2 (12.50%) Bicep
4 2 (12.50%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) Kotlin
5 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) HL7
1 3 (18.75%) QA
1 3 (18.75%) WCAG
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Brio
3 2 (12.50%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) Adobe